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Enterprise: \"Storm Front\"
Did anyone else watch tonight's season premier of Enterprise?
If you didn't watch but plan to watch it and/or don't want to know anything about what happened, don't read further.
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I almost missed it. Had I not be surfing the satellite's program guide looking at what was coming on local channels, I wouldn't have known Enterprise was coming on tonight. There was an advertisement for it during tonight's eyeroll-inducing episode of Andromeda on SciFi, but all that ad said was the premier was coming on "this week," which led me to think it was referencing this coming week, not tonight.
Anyway, I watched it. While I thought the last few episodes of last season of Enterprise weren't the greatest Star Trek ever, I didn't think they were the worst either. But when last season's finale left with the whole back in time aliens are helping the Nazis cliffhanger, I wasn't excited about the beginning of this season. I watched out of hoping that a plot involving the back in time aliens helping the Nazis would be something considerable.
It was ok, but no where near great. The temporal cold war was brought back into the story with the cold war having turned into a regular war. But I honestly am not interested in time travel stories much these days. Time travel in all of science fiction is something that over the past handfull of years seems to have been used so much that the use of it now kind of feels like the avenue of story telling taken by those who can't write complex characters. Time travel does not automatically give a complex story to a show.
Now, granted, Cotto is probably trying to bring some kind of decent connection between the past seasons of Enterprise and the rest of the Star Trek stories from years gone past. So, I'm willing to give some time for the story to be developed thusly.
Tonight's episode itself was average. It wasn't awe inducing and barely touched me, but compared to the current season's premier episode of Andromeda it was brilliant.
I felt very little character from the various characters except for the exception of the guest character whose name I don't remember: the black woman that looked after Archer. She actually had some characterization to her. The others -- guest and regular -- felt like they could be replaced with any other characters and nothing would have been different. It was fairly fun to have seen Christopher Neame, who played Knight Two in Babylon 5's season one "And The Sky Full Of Stars", but his character really didn't do much.
So, overall, I would rate it average. It wasn't great, but it didn't totally suck either.
Did anyone else watch tonight's season premier of Enterprise?
If you didn't watch but plan to watch it and/or don't want to know anything about what happened, don't read further.
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I almost missed it. Had I not be surfing the satellite's program guide looking at what was coming on local channels, I wouldn't have known Enterprise was coming on tonight. There was an advertisement for it during tonight's eyeroll-inducing episode of Andromeda on SciFi, but all that ad said was the premier was coming on "this week," which led me to think it was referencing this coming week, not tonight.
Anyway, I watched it. While I thought the last few episodes of last season of Enterprise weren't the greatest Star Trek ever, I didn't think they were the worst either. But when last season's finale left with the whole back in time aliens are helping the Nazis cliffhanger, I wasn't excited about the beginning of this season. I watched out of hoping that a plot involving the back in time aliens helping the Nazis would be something considerable.
It was ok, but no where near great. The temporal cold war was brought back into the story with the cold war having turned into a regular war. But I honestly am not interested in time travel stories much these days. Time travel in all of science fiction is something that over the past handfull of years seems to have been used so much that the use of it now kind of feels like the avenue of story telling taken by those who can't write complex characters. Time travel does not automatically give a complex story to a show.
Now, granted, Cotto is probably trying to bring some kind of decent connection between the past seasons of Enterprise and the rest of the Star Trek stories from years gone past. So, I'm willing to give some time for the story to be developed thusly.
Tonight's episode itself was average. It wasn't awe inducing and barely touched me, but compared to the current season's premier episode of Andromeda it was brilliant.
I felt very little character from the various characters except for the exception of the guest character whose name I don't remember: the black woman that looked after Archer. She actually had some characterization to her. The others -- guest and regular -- felt like they could be replaced with any other characters and nothing would have been different. It was fairly fun to have seen Christopher Neame, who played Knight Two in Babylon 5's season one "And The Sky Full Of Stars", but his character really didn't do much.
So, overall, I would rate it average. It wasn't great, but it didn't totally suck either.