What are your overall thoughts about TNG Season 4, and our whole project at this point? Here is a pie chart of our progress (the denominator will start to increase in January 2017 with the premiere of a new ST series).
What are your overall thoughts about TNG Season 4, and our whole project at this point?
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3 responses to “What are your overall thoughts about TNG Season 4, and our whole project at this point?”
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I love that it’s been so long that we’ve been working on this and only less than one third of the way through! I say that we add in the new series and watch it as the episodes come out, once Jan 2017 rolls around.
Kev, you’ve been amazingly loyal to the project… thanks so much for keeping it going! I love reading comments by Jim, Alex, Alan, Dara, and others who have dropped in for a bit. I also love the notion that I will not have missed out on a single episode by the end of this.
It looks like now we have watched more of the Next Gen than we have of original Trek… yet funny how the original still looms larger in my mind. I guess it’s partly because of when I watched it first.
I’m excited about being in “the good part” of TNG, and also DS9 coming up (always my favorite of the new Treks).
Onward ho!
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Yes! TNG has turned a corner. I rated 12 episodes 4 stars or better, and only 6 as 2 stars or lower. My average rating was 3.3–which is not bad. There was still a bad run of four episodes in a row (“Night Terrors,” “Identity Crisis,” “The Nth Degree,” and “Qpid”) that had me questioning whether everything had gone to shit. Then “The Drumhead” and “Half a Life” were next, and I was happy again.
I find myself thinking fondly of episodes that I didn’t rate among the best, like “Data’s Day,” “Suddenly Human,” “Final Mission,” and “Remember Me” (sorry Randi, I like that one). This is a good sign. In one of the documentaries on my Season 4 Blu-ray set, one of the writers (either Brannon Braga or Ronald D. Moore) says that Season 4 is where it all came together, and when people think back fondly on TNG, they are really thinking of that season forward. That means we have a lot too look forward to, with 78 TNG episodes still ahead (one less than the entirety of TOS!).
I’m looking forward to DS9, too, although I’m afraid Star Trek: Voyager may test our patience. This is a centering activity for me, to get my geek on with worthy conversationalists on a regular schedule.
While I enjoy everyone’s contributions, I am especially grateful to Randi. Your commitment truly keeps us going. I remember back in the TOS Season 3 days starting to feel codependent, and thinking what a strange development that was. I don’t use the c word anymore, but I’m full of warm feelings for your friendship and I love to read your ideas.
I also get the benefit of watching every episode with +sunny jim and batting them around with her, even when the rest of you don’t hear her comments. She makes sure that I pay at least a little attention to the clothes. Onwards!
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Aw, Kev. You are the best. Miles apart but still inseparable I guess. Reminds me of college. 🙂 Seriously, thanks for providing a social activity compatible with being a working mom (there are not many!). And thanks for geeking out with me and other interested parties. So fun.
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