Re: Sci-Fi gets "Ghost Whisperer," "Star Trek: TNG," "Charmed," "Highlander,"

PV wrote:
> jewahe2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 writes:
>>> Except that TNG isn't even the second best Star Trek series (if you
include
>>> TOS), and most of it *is* crap that doesn't survive rewatching. *
>> Except that it isn't. It is the best of the ST series.
> 
> Not even close. It's badly acted, indifferently scripted, and such
watered
> down pap that it's rare that you can find a single episode worth
> rewatching. I've gone back to rewatch all of the series once when
> they entered syndication, and TNG was the only one I stopped watching
> before the finish. Even Voyager was more fun to watch, and Enterprise
> still had episodes with Schran.
> 
>> TOS was too much a product of its times. Some of the episodes have 
>> withstood time, but it's overall look and language dates it too much. 
>> What's more, the series often became tiresome with its 
>> monster-of-the-week repetitions.
> 
> No it isn't. It's a classic and will always remain so. I used to think
the
> same thing, but I picked up the series again after not watching one for
more
> than a decade, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Even Shatner's
overacting,
> a thing that drove me NUTS in the movies, worked in the series just
fine.
> 
>> DS9 was incredibly inconsistent with plot and character, and too often 
>> descended into soap-opera plotting.
> 
> It was *good* soap opera. By far, DS9 had the least skips on
> rewatching - this is just plain good television. And I don't agree at
ALL
> on plot and character. Sisko remains my favorite character of any trek
> series of all time, and probably the only one I'd want to sit down and
have
> a beer with. Scotty and Dax would be close behind in that department,
but
> I'm not sure having a drink with either would be healthy. Any DS9
episode
> with Ba****r and Garak was a treat. 
> 
>> VOY, of course, might as well have been a stand-along series, without 
>> any regards to the established universe. When the plots weren't just 
>> plain inane, they were too much of a soap-opera. And the characters
were 
>> very inconsistent, annoying, or useless.
> 
> Voyager was a terrible series, but it was terrible in an
often-entertaining
> way. Sometimes laugh-out-loud so. And a handful of times per season,
probably
> entirely by accident, it WORKED. I think that happened only twice,
arguably
> 3 times, in TNG. 
> 
>> ENT, like VOY, discarded the established universe and just couldn't 
>> figure out what it wanted to be about.
> 
> Actually, it was mostly simple incompetence, and contains some of the
worst
> casting of a television series of all time. Enterprise should never
> have happened. *

....and since you've plonked Anim, I'll stand in here and say "Boy you 
liked it a lot more than I did!" :)  But, ya, what he said.