I loved season 3 the best but overall season 2 and 3....
Enterprise is cool if you give it a chance.
Enterprise is cool if you give it a chance.
Which Season Do You Think is the Best?
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I think Season 3 has better episodes overall and a tighter focus but I think they should've cut all those weak non-Xindi episodes like cowboy planet and caveman planet or done another a few more drafts on them. I like Season 4 but I think those mini-arcs are way too drawn out and have weak endings, but I like the last three 2-parters quite a lot. I didn't like Season 1 and I originally gave up watching the show for good during it so I've never bothered watching more that a handful of Season 2 including Future Tense and Regeneration, which are probably my favourites of the whole show.
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Dead Stop, Cogenitor, and Regeneration are my favourites from season 2.
BTW why am I getting this when I post replies or try checking alerts?
Usually the forum performs housekeeping at midnightish, Pacific Time. That's when I see that message. I don't know what time zone you're in - do you see the notice at about the same time of day/night?
I think around the same time. It has never happened before yesterday..
I kept writing replies to quotes but they kept vanishing with that message on screen.
Perhaps some strange glitch that gives you a cached copy of a forum screen even when housekeeping has disabled access to the forum. Just a guess, I am no Xenforo guru.
Oh no problem it seemed to be random and has now gone.
Always Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C before clicking Reply.
I think North Star was one of the stronger episodes. The basic concept is a bit dodgy (aliens going all the way to Earth to pick up slaves), but the execution was excellent, plus it was a nice update of the classic TOS cowboy planet idea.
Twilight. That's not what happened, and it did make sense.
Extinction, generally regarded as one of the worst episodes.
Last night I watched the last episode of season 2 to warm up for season 3 and the Xindi arc. I am excited. Season 3 was my favourite season.
And popped in the first two episodes of Season 3...... Loving this again.
Xindi and Anomaly were great episodes...... Extinction and Rajiin are next. oooh fun
Xindi and Anomaly were great episodes...... Extinction and Rajiin are next. oooh fun
I haven't seen Season 3, but Season 4 was what it should have been IMO.
I am torn over S3 and S4, The whole Xindi arc was great, with some stand out performances with anguish of an attack on Earth. The thing I did enjoy about S4 however was the multiple mini-arcs within the series, single one-off episodes were stale in any series by this time so the mini-arcs moved the series on in my opinion even if it always meant I had to wait a additional week or two to see it all the way through.
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The mini-arc was an interesting way of doing things, but bear in mind at least part of the reason was budgetary constraints. Doing a multiparter, you can reuse sets and costumes, and even shoot an actor one week then spread their appearance over several episodes.
You have to admire -ENTERPRISE- for its thrift.
Season 4. A series of mostly two and three-parters, punctuated by fewer standalone episodes is just the best Trek. I'll hazard a guess it's the only thing the new series will take from Enterprise and then take credit for! Then again, it's probably nothing compared to Season 3's claim of being the first one long ongoing story arc. *cough* DS9 already went there, and then some.
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All of this.
Initially, I was excited for season four and I happily admit the product we got was far better than what we could've had with Berman and Braga in charge. But this was the kinda fun stuff we should've had back in the first season to tease us with the premise. Season four should've been about building on the aftermath of the Xindi war and the characters should have had some dynamic to work against. It's telling that one of Mayweather's most memorable scenes in the entire series is when he's got the Organians (I think it was them) taking over his body.
I used to like S4 a lot, but I recently watched the entire series again (on Blu-Ray this time
) but it wasn't as good as I remembered. Season 3 is easily the strongest. In my opinion Enterprise was at its best from 'The Crossing' till 'E2'. And I'm not talking about the Xindi arc itself, but the quality of the writing.Like you, I've gained more appreciation for the first two seasons. Especially the first half of Season 1 had some good episodes that use the prequel premise well, but then the show kind of forgot what it set out to do. With a few exceptions that 30 episode stretch from 'Sleeping Dogs' till 'Canamar' is painfully mediocre. Then, with the last few episodes of Season 2, it got good again.
Still, that huge number of weak episodes in S1/S2 make it the weakest of all the Star Trek series for me. And the final episodes of S4 are a miss for me as well. Sure, I like 'Mirror Darkly', but in my opinion 'Affliction' till 'TATV' were just as weak as S1/S2.
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