ST Enterprise! What a waste!
by eliciab on Comments
Sorry that my blogs are only about Trek, but my withdrawal symptoms are just getting worse. After watching some of the last episodes of Enterprise yesterday, I was ready to throw a chair in my TV. What did they do with that show? I mean when I heard they planned to do a prequel to the original series, I shook my head and didn't think anything good could come out of that. It took a lot of convincing from my other Trek friends to have me watch it. This show had one of the best Trek casts ever. After Voyager, it was a blessing to see good actors and I really enjoyed watching their interactions. My only reserve was on Scott Bakula (I really love this actor) after watching several episodes. He wasn't really to blame. Archer was not very well written and Bakula had one huge competition, Connor Trinneer. From one season to the other you always had this feeling that they didn't know what to do with this show. A vision was missing, a direction to lead us where we hadn't been before. Season 2 was extremely weak, season 3 had its good times, season 4 was better but it was already too late. The final insult to this show came the final episodes. I mean Riker and Troi? What the hell were they doing there? They didn't even give the show a closure of its own. They had to drag overused characters who were completely pointless. TPTB showed once more how little respect they had for the amazing cast they had. And killing Tucker? What was the point? You don't kill your most popular character! Did it bring anything? No!!! For me it was just exacting revenge on a character who went beyond what they wanted him to be. Or maybe I just didn't get the point! Please anyone out there to enlighten me?