Enterprise Season 3 - Similitude
Jan. 9th, 2005 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartGerman TV is repeating the 3rd Season of Enterprise, and though I'm not exactly a fan of this show (okay, understatement of the year), I do occasionally watch the one or other episode. They show one on every Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
Yesterday, they showed North Star, which was truly godawful - full of clichés and boring above that - but I actually liked Similitude. Okay, the idea of the fast-growing child had been done to the death, and it was crystal clear that - despite the melodramatic teaser - it wasn't actually Tucker in the torpedo cascet, but still, the execution wasn't all that bad.
I liked the kids who played the Trip similacrum at its various ages. And although the moral dilemma was overly dramatic (and badly solved, if I may add), at least Archer didn't drag poor Trip2 (or Sim, as he was called) by gunpoint to sickbay and had Phlox operate on him against his will. (Janeway wasn't this considerate in a similar situation - Tuvix anyone?)
On the other hand, it'd have been a lot more interesting if they could have solved the 15-days-life-span problem and save the second Tucker... at least for a while. The two characters who started as one could have had a fascinating difference in their further development. But again, continuity is something not exactly supported in TV.
What I really hated: the T'Pol/Trip thing. But it's just a consequence of the ongoing canon rape this series has committed on Vulcans sicne its very beginning, so I won't go into details. That'd make a 200KB rant, at the very least.
I also hate the fact that in almost every show taking place on a starship has burial in space. I know, it's a sci-fi form of marine tradition, but come on! Doesn't it mean they'd litter space with corpses? I mean, at least the sailors buried in the sea rot and return to the elements after a while... (okay, unpleasant mental image, but still...)
Why in Hades can't they cremate their fellow crewmembers (with the right phaser settings or whatever its equivalent is in other universes, that can't be so complicated) and return the ashes in a sealed urn to the family? I find the fate of becoming space debris really undignified.
Other things: I still don't like Captain Archer. Partially because I don't like Scott Bakula, but beyond that, he really is a wooden character. So is T'Pol. But I like Trip and Malcolm Reed and Hoshi. They are the reason why I still watch the show... sporadically.
As for Enterprise fanfic, I've actually grown fond of Tucker/Reed slash. They are such funny characters, at least in Seasons 1 and 2. I still fail to understand why anyone, regardless if man, woman or tree, would ever fall for Archer, but I can't understand the supposed magnetism of Dylan Hunt, either. Or that of James T. Kirk. I find all three of them fairly ugly and completely uninteresting.
Well, at least Archer doesn't behave as if he were God - so far. I've read things on various forums that make me very... cautious where he is considered. He's supposed to carry Surak's frigging katra? Oh, please, someone shoot me!
Okay, this was rather incoherent, I just wanted to save my impressions of Similitude. It was a mediocre episode, but at least a nice one. *g*
Yesterday, they showed North Star, which was truly godawful - full of clichés and boring above that - but I actually liked Similitude. Okay, the idea of the fast-growing child had been done to the death, and it was crystal clear that - despite the melodramatic teaser - it wasn't actually Tucker in the torpedo cascet, but still, the execution wasn't all that bad.
I liked the kids who played the Trip similacrum at its various ages. And although the moral dilemma was overly dramatic (and badly solved, if I may add), at least Archer didn't drag poor Trip2 (or Sim, as he was called) by gunpoint to sickbay and had Phlox operate on him against his will. (Janeway wasn't this considerate in a similar situation - Tuvix anyone?)
On the other hand, it'd have been a lot more interesting if they could have solved the 15-days-life-span problem and save the second Tucker... at least for a while. The two characters who started as one could have had a fascinating difference in their further development. But again, continuity is something not exactly supported in TV.
What I really hated: the T'Pol/Trip thing. But it's just a consequence of the ongoing canon rape this series has committed on Vulcans sicne its very beginning, so I won't go into details. That'd make a 200KB rant, at the very least.
I also hate the fact that in almost every show taking place on a starship has burial in space. I know, it's a sci-fi form of marine tradition, but come on! Doesn't it mean they'd litter space with corpses? I mean, at least the sailors buried in the sea rot and return to the elements after a while... (okay, unpleasant mental image, but still...)
Why in Hades can't they cremate their fellow crewmembers (with the right phaser settings or whatever its equivalent is in other universes, that can't be so complicated) and return the ashes in a sealed urn to the family? I find the fate of becoming space debris really undignified.
Other things: I still don't like Captain Archer. Partially because I don't like Scott Bakula, but beyond that, he really is a wooden character. So is T'Pol. But I like Trip and Malcolm Reed and Hoshi. They are the reason why I still watch the show... sporadically.
As for Enterprise fanfic, I've actually grown fond of Tucker/Reed slash. They are such funny characters, at least in Seasons 1 and 2. I still fail to understand why anyone, regardless if man, woman or tree, would ever fall for Archer, but I can't understand the supposed magnetism of Dylan Hunt, either. Or that of James T. Kirk. I find all three of them fairly ugly and completely uninteresting.
Well, at least Archer doesn't behave as if he were God - so far. I've read things on various forums that make me very... cautious where he is considered. He's supposed to carry Surak's frigging katra? Oh, please, someone shoot me!
Okay, this was rather incoherent, I just wanted to save my impressions of Similitude. It was a mediocre episode, but at least a nice one. *g*
