andrew (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} heiligekuh) wrote,@ 2007-11-18 15:01:00 |
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Time spent on the couch
So, when annika came home form the hospital, I rightly surmised that I was going to spend a lot of time on the couch where I was only going to have half (or less) of a brain. So I decided that I needed some TV to watch that wouldn't punish me for zoning out for a few minutes, and not so loud or explody that it would disturb the baby. So, I decided to use this time ot watch all of DS9.
usernamenumber and I realized somewhere around the time Bab5 was ending that DS9 was doing some neat stuff, but that we had been so focused on the *really* good SF show that we had lost track of the developing goodness of DS9. So, I decided to start from the start.
Now I'm just over a season into it, (It's a bit strange. S1 is only 20 eps, while S2 is 26. Is there a story here?) and man, is it ever Star Trek! There's so much technobabble, so many non-existent problems that are created and solved all in sentances that mean absoutley nothing outside the constructed langauge of Trek. But, that's what makes it good baby fodder. I can miss an entire scene with everyone milling around Ops and come back and nothing si=gnificant has changed.
There's also the attempts to make DS9 different that seem so. . .marginal from this distance. "charachter's won't always get along!" Well, that's true, but they don't really do much about it. Odo harasses Quark. Quark takes it. Julian wants to sleep with Dax. Dax laughs. While it's a change from the Superfriends cameraderie of TNG, all of the conflicts are . . pasted on. If anything it seems like everyone has these rough edges that are just waiting to get smoothed out so everythign fits into the nice TNG model.
yeah - - -first season DS9 isn't awesome. I wnet back and triend to figure out when "good" DS9 starts, and the conensus seems to be somewhere between "when Sisco shaves his head" and "when Worf shows up." Both of which are actually aroundthe time that TNG ends, and Ron Moore comes over as a writer/nominal show runner.
Has anyone else tried to do a systematic rewatch of a trek series in recent years?
So, when annika came home form the hospital, I rightly surmised that I was going to spend a lot of time on the couch where I was only going to have half (or less) of a brain. So I decided that I needed some TV to watch that wouldn't punish me for zoning out for a few minutes, and not so loud or explody that it would disturb the baby. So, I decided to use this time ot watch all of DS9.
usernamenumber and I realized somewhere around the time Bab5 was ending that DS9 was doing some neat stuff, but that we had been so focused on the *really* good SF show that we had lost track of the developing goodness of DS9. So, I decided to start from the start.Now I'm just over a season into it, (It's a bit strange. S1 is only 20 eps, while S2 is 26. Is there a story here?) and man, is it ever Star Trek! There's so much technobabble, so many non-existent problems that are created and solved all in sentances that mean absoutley nothing outside the constructed langauge of Trek. But, that's what makes it good baby fodder. I can miss an entire scene with everyone milling around Ops and come back and nothing si=gnificant has changed.
There's also the attempts to make DS9 different that seem so. . .marginal from this distance. "charachter's won't always get along!" Well, that's true, but they don't really do much about it. Odo harasses Quark. Quark takes it. Julian wants to sleep with Dax. Dax laughs. While it's a change from the Superfriends cameraderie of TNG, all of the conflicts are . . pasted on. If anything it seems like everyone has these rough edges that are just waiting to get smoothed out so everythign fits into the nice TNG model.
yeah - - -first season DS9 isn't awesome. I wnet back and triend to figure out when "good" DS9 starts, and the conensus seems to be somewhere between "when Sisco shaves his head" and "when Worf shows up." Both of which are actually aroundthe time that TNG ends, and Ron Moore comes over as a writer/nominal show runner.
Has anyone else tried to do a systematic rewatch of a trek series in recent years?
