I started this topic as I found the end of season four painful and wondered if it was just going to get worse here on out.
I have to say having ploughed through 11 episodes of season 5, I am changing my opinion and - so far - would rank season 5 above season 4.
Night is good, different and I like it that the crew is doing good. Extreme Risk is not great because it has to pack too much into one episode - you just get over clinical depression - but it tries. Counterpoint is great. And i just watched Latent Image, which I remembered liking but I was just blown away by on a rewatch. Amazing stuff.
Of course I've now got Bride of Chaotica, and I can't start that whole Captain Proton BS so expect me to hate season 5 again shortly.
But I'll be interested personally to see if season 5 goes downhill and thus it fulfils my memory of being worse than 4, or whether I'll like it more this time.
I liked the concept of Night, the idea of the Malon as industrial type villains, the premise of the episode where they're really isolated and lost, and that Janeway finally is starting to feel guilty for the prediciment she got her crew in.
Extreme Risk, I dunno. It was alright, but Torres being apathetic and depressed after four years of anger just isn't convincing. Equally unconvincing is how this sudden bout of depression disapears as quickly as it cropped up.
Counterpoint was an awesome episode. I always like the wheels with in wheels storylines and this one keeps you guessing.
Latent Image... powerful episode but it really does confirm the evil Janeway theory when she keeps screwing with his program.
As for Bride of Chaotica... I actually liked that one. Sure it's as stupid as all the other Proton scenarios, but it embraces it's stupidity and takes it entirely to a new level that's kind of amusing.
Surely not!
