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

In article <yeGdnZLeW7YzWILVnZ2dnUVZ_oninZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Michael Bowker <mikeb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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.

PV plonked me?  I thought I plonked him.

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