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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 04 2022, @05:54AM
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by Anonymous Coward
on Monday April 04 2022, @05:54AM (#1234691)
Voyager was good at what it was meant to be, pure episodic science fiction (and starkly opposed to DS9's serial approach). The people I know who dislike it do so specifically because it is too episodic. As for the criticism of Janeway and the Prime Directive, I can understand that when you factor in the pilot. The whole reason they are stuck in the Delta Quadrant at all is because Janeway, and Janeway alone, made the decision to violate the Prime Directive in the stupidest, most unnecessary way. After that decision, watching her pick and choose when to follow it, preach about it when she will likely make a different choice next time, and with the Universe bending to her will to prove her correct, I don't think it is too hard to see why Janeway gets extra crap for the decisions she makes during the course of the show. But if you take it for what it is, and remember that it is episodic and not serial, it is also easy to overlook.
Enterprise season 4 is what I thought the whole show would be. They tried to pivot out of their 3-season-long Temporal Cold War arc but it was too late. It struck the right balance between being episodic and serial that the first three seasons didn't have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 04 2022, @05:54AM (1 child)
Voyager was good at what it was meant to be, pure episodic science fiction (and starkly opposed to DS9's serial approach). The people I know who dislike it do so specifically because it is too episodic. As for the criticism of Janeway and the Prime Directive, I can understand that when you factor in the pilot. The whole reason they are stuck in the Delta Quadrant at all is because Janeway, and Janeway alone, made the decision to violate the Prime Directive in the stupidest, most unnecessary way. After that decision, watching her pick and choose when to follow it, preach about it when she will likely make a different choice next time, and with the Universe bending to her will to prove her correct, I don't think it is too hard to see why Janeway gets extra crap for the decisions she makes during the course of the show. But if you take it for what it is, and remember that it is episodic and not serial, it is also easy to overlook.
Enterprise season 4 is what I thought the whole show would be. They tried to pivot out of their 3-season-long Temporal Cold War arc but it was too late. It struck the right balance between being episodic and serial that the first three seasons didn't have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 05 2022, @08:12PM
Just don't watch the series finale. What a disappointing load of crap.