The "Hijacked Thread" Thread

[Arcadia]

Possibly. I'm beginning to think a certain level of insanity is required to enjoy this show.... :p

[johnspec]

that is what my and CAMPer joke about everyday

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Yes we do joke about our sanity quite a bit.  Or lack there of.

[J.P.]

Well, if it runs in family it might be a bit worse I suppose. :P You don't need to come here to refuel your insanity.

[johnspec]

well when i'm with my father my sanity is back to normal

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Bud, that's a whole different form of insanity with your dad

[johnspec]

and yet i don't care!

[johnspec]

i'm playing a video game then my computer crashes and when i bring it back up i see a troll face has soon has i bring firefox up darn you trolls or more like darn you firefox

[Fantasy Lover]

I'd be perfectly happy with [Mary] sticking around and/or I'd like to know her backstory.  What I would really hate would be for them to kill her off without even explaining who she really is and how she came to be there.  That would be a terrible waste of an interesting character.

 

Amen to that. That's the way I felt about Sirius Black; why did Rowling introduce such a potentially interesting character only to toss him away a book or two later? I didn't mourn him like I was obviously meant to, because I didn't know anything about him. That's when I finally gave up on the Harry Potter series.

 

Sirius *sobs*

[Carol the Dabbler]

That's the way I felt about Sirius Black; why did Rowling introduce such a potentially interesting character only to toss him away a book or two later? I didn't mourn him like I was obviously meant to, because I didn't know anything about him. That's when I finally gave up on the Harry Potter series.

 

I was thinking Tasha Yar, but yeah, Sirius too (and I really felt sorry for Harry).

[Pamela]

I think they had to find a way to kill Tasha because Denise Crosby wanted out. Bad move for her. Glad they found a way to bring her back, in a way.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I think they had to find a way to kill Tasha because Denise Crosby wanted out.

 

Yes, that's what I heard too.  I guess what really irked me was the offhand way they killed the character.  At least she could have gone out saving the ship or something.  (Though I must admit that I'm also still irked at the final episode of Enterprise.)

[Arcadia]

Why, what happened? I never watched it, for some reason, even though I really like, er, whatshisname. You know, the Quantum Leap guy. I stuck through all the other iterations, I don't know why I balked at that one. Well ... I finally stopped watching Deep Space Nine, the characters never jelled for me. I quite liked Voyager.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I finally stopped watching all of the spin-offs, near as I recall.  Just got tired of them.  But I did watch the final episodes.  In the final episode of Enterprise (near as I can recall at this point), the ship was invaded by some baddies and

 

 

Tripp lured them into a little room where there was lots of electrical equipment, and then used his own body to short everything out, thus frying the baddies and dying in order to save his shipmates.  He was my favorite character, and I so wanted to see him get back home at the end of the voyage.  He almost made it.  But he did save the ship and the rest of the crew, and he did shout something appropriate as he shorted out the circuit.

 

[Arcadia]

So you were irked because

your favorite character died, and not because he died in vain? There's always something, isn't there?

 

 

I actually don't recall the final episode of any of them, except the Original. An episode that I didn't hate nearly as much as some people do, for some reason.

 

Meanwhile, back in Sherlock-ville....

[Carol the Dabbler]

So you were irked because

your favorite character died, and not because he died in vain? There's always something, isn't there?

 

 

I actually don't recall the final episode of any of them, except the Original. An episode that I didn't hate nearly as much as some people do, for some reason.

 

Meanwhile, back in Sherlock-ville....

 

... or not -- since we've been magically transported to the Hijacked Thread thread!

 

Yeah, basically that's why I was irked (even though it could have been worse).

 

Of course TOS didn't have a series finale, it just had a last episode (as in, they didn't make any more after that).  I assume you're talking about "Turnabout Intruder," which I thought was a pretty decent episode except for two things:

 

 

Shatner wasn't playing a woman in a man's body, he was doing a parody of a woman (as in, the captain in drag, but without the dress).  I thought that the actress who played the woman did a far better job of playing Kirk in a woman's body.

 

And then there was the implication that a woman was ipso facto not eligible to be a starship captain.  I don't think they actually came right out and said that, but they sure made it easy for us to interpret it that way.  Two hundred years in the future?  Come on now!

 

[Arcadia]

Yeah, it's pretty easy to interpret it that way. I just never let it bother me, for some reason. Maybe because the woman in question didn't represent all women, in my mind. I was more put off by the ones who fell for Kirk's charms. Not that he didn't have some... :p

[Carol the Dabbler]

No, she was shown to be a nutcase rather than a typical woman.  (I suppose one could interpret that to mean that any woman who aspires to captain a starship must be a nutcase, but I've never chosen to look at it that way.)

[Arcadia]

Same here. And I rather enjoyed Shatner's hamminess in that one ... although the only thing I remember clearly is the scene where he's filing his nails, I thought that was funny.

 

Suddenly I'm getting a yen to go back and watch some of those ... oh! I have been! I just remembered, some station or other has been showing them, I think they must have selected only the good ones, because I haven't seen any of the lousy ones yet and they're certainly not showing them in order. :( The cheesy special effects are pretty painful sometimes, but otherwise they hold up pretty well. If you're not looking for flaws, that is. ;)

 

Picard and crew, on the other hand, just get more annoying to me as the years go by. So sanctimonious! (Sorry, Mr. Stewart!)

[Carol the Dabbler]

First rule for rewatching NextGen:  Avoid the first season like the plague.  It was basically nothing but TOS remakes and plotlines so thin that even I (who don't tend to watch with that in mind) could see right through them.  ("It's not the aliens, it's the planet, you fools!")

 

Oh, God, the nail-filing scene.  *cringe*  But might as well laugh as vomit, I guess.

 

Basically, NextGen has better production values and TOS has more heart, I think.  I like both, and consider some episodes of each to be real classics (e.g., "City on the Edge of Forever" and "Measure of a Man").

 

[Arcadia]

Yeah, that's a good way of distinguishing between the two ... for all it's flaws, TOS manages to be a good old fashioned adventure with likable characters and passably good sci fi plots. It also has something that distinguishes most of my other favorite shows ... a healthy sense of humor.

 

About the only time I really got excited about NextGen was when the Borg showed up. They made very satisfying villains, because you could blow them to smithereens and no one would care. :D

 

I really liked the JJ Abrams of Trek, too, even before BC showed up in it. He captured the fun and the heart and avoided the ponderousness of some of the other adaptations. I'm worried about the new one though, from what I've seen so far it looks loud and ... loud.

 

Were you a Babylon 5 fan too, by any chance? It had its weak points also, but when it was good, it was amazing. Too bad about the last season.

[Caya]

What last season? :P

 

Babylon 5 was a wild ride. Like you said, amazing at times. It'll always have a special place in my heart. As will Vir Cotto ;).

[Arcadia]

The dreary 5th one that hardly anyone got to see (just as well...)

 

Oh, Vir. I loved Vir. And Ivanova, she was such a great character.

[Caya]

That was a joke ;). Like in that xkcd comic, last panel:

 

 

And yes, Ivanova is God, of course :lol:.

[Arcadia]

Errrr ... right. What 5th season?