Careful, Michael Dorn has said that fans always give him bottles of prune juice when he goes to conventions. Sure we’re keeping the man healthy but there is a limit to how much prune juice you have in the fridge.
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Watch the several other seasons of this show you just watched the final season trailer for, and you’ll understand “wth” is going on in its final season...
Schroedinger’s Zabrak; Maul is both alive and dead, depending on your point of view.
Where in the timeline are you? This is well before Rebels where he died. Teenage Ahsoka, non-Vader Anakin and younger Obi-Wan ought to be little hints.
Oh goddamn you Filoni, you're not gonna make me tear up a little about clone trooper helmets painted to look like Ahsoka at 9:54 ON A FUCKING WEDNESDAY. NOPE. NOT AT ALL
Ups and downs is an understatement. It’s very unfortunate that the greatest ‘ups’ have come as the show is ending. The last few episodes have honestly been a really good, solid show with some decent commentary on war salted in here and there. Where was this show last season, or even most of this one?
1. I love TNG (and TOS). But the people who hate Disco seem to think that TNG was all “The Best of Both Worlds” and “Measure of a Man”, when it was really at least 50% “Up The Long Ladder” and “Sub Rosa”. Kill your nostalgia.
All I remember from TNG (I was a B5 fan and didn’t have much patience for TNG) was the very good episode The Inner Light and the ridiculous technobabble that pervaded the series.
TNG gets a lot of credit, because the good episodes are really damn good, but you will not find a string of five good episodes in a row. You’ll get two, three good or great episodes and then a clunker.
Oh, they were pretty horrible back then too. TNG survived those first seasons mainly because Trek fans were just so excited to have new episodes after a 20 year drought. This episode wasn’t so great? Maybe the next one will be better.
Roddenberry died in late 1991, by which point the show was in its fourth season and he hadn’t been heavily involved with its direction for over a year.
It wasn’t. It focused so much on the knock-off Han Solo (a very young Billy Campbell, so spot on for casting I guess) that I was fairly sure it was a backdoor pilot. I haven’t been able to find any evidence of that, but I still think some writer wanted it bad.
Keep in mind, TNG was produced from 1987 to 1994. That was a much different television landscape than present day, including the fact that TNG was a syndicated series, not a network series. At that point, all that TNG had was the original series and four films. It also didn’t help that there was a writers strike that…
Yeah, when people ask me about watching TNG, I tell them it is definitely best to cherry pick from the good to great episodes, because there is a deluge of bad episodes for a series with a reputation of a modern sci-fi classic.
During my latest rewatch I found only twenty to thirty episodes of the entire run were actually decent-to-great. The rest were either bland, boring, or awful.
Yeah, Season One of TNG is like swimming through sewage for as long as you can, and managing a few shallow breaths above water on the back end. Towards the end, you have a few episodes, like “Heart of Glory” or “The Arsenal of Freedom”, that aren’t necessarily smart or sophisticated, but at least they’re done…
Yep, TNG’s early seasons were particularly bad. It’s not much of a consolation, but several of the not great early season episodes were reused scripts from either TOS itself or the planned Phase Two sequel that was cancelled when Paramount decided to do the original cast movies instead. The early seasons also had more…