On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:29 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > In most cases I would rather watch a less preferred show on instant viewing > than wait for the DVD. My son and I have developed the habit of picking one > television program to watch via the disk, and just set the queue to send us > the next one as we get to it (we have been working our way through Voyager > recently, which does not suck quite as much as I had been led to believe, > but when he gets out of school for Christmas break we will settle in for > some serious New Who action).
Voyager had its moments, but it never seemed to find its center. The series probably had some of the best standalone episodes in the franchise, and it was much better than the wretched entity that was "Enterprise." But TOS was centered around the wonder of space and the future, TNG presented a message of hope and optimism, DS9 was all about strength through diversity. Voyager just seemed to be about dressing a blonde chick in a skin-tight outfit -- I guess you could say the series was about survival or beating the odds, but they had so much handed to them on silver platters that I wasn't feeling that. And the series finale was -- to me -- worse than the finale of "Enterprise." The more interesting story (which was told in a series of novels) would have been how the crew adapted to life back on Earth and how the people of Earth reacted to them (the novels really are worth reading, in particular to see the fate of Admiral Janeway, and a very good racism/discrimination parable about Seven of Nine on Earth). -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
