Showing posts with label Voyager. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voyager. Show all posts
Voyager # 158
Jonathan Del Arco, Paul Willson. Exciting high concept episode, with great Janeway scenes and a lot of depth & meaning. 10/10
Voyager # 157
Sherman Howard. Predictable, but thought-provoking, look at faith/prophecy. It is slow to start, but does have plenty of action in the final act. And there are some moments of subtle but genuine sadness between B’Elanna and the Klingon leader, dealing with her loss of faith and her lack of connection to her own heritage.
The comedy subplots (Harry, Neelix) don’t work.
Voyager 156
Jeff Kober . Unsubtle but effective look at capital punishment. Helped by making it a story personal to Seven and her unique backstory. Also helped by a downbeat ending. Any other conclusion would have been a cop-out and weakened the impact.
Voyager. Season 7, Episode 3. "Drive"
Voyager. Season 7, Episode 3. "Drive" Paris & Torres in a race.
Lightweight episode about Tom Paris entering the Delta Flyer in a race. There's a couple of subplots, too: Torres is unhappy about her relationship, and there are forces at work trying to sabotage the race.
It's okay stuff. Nothing much happens to quicken the pulse, but it's nice to see the crew having fun.
I tried hard to feel sympathy for Torres, but couldn't quite muster it up. It seemed to me like a storm in a teacup and - to be honest - I thought Torres was over-reacting. I really enjoyed the idea of her working with Paris in the race, but the episode didn't exploit it fully. Indeed the idea of the race wasn't exploited, either. The sabotage plot led to a nice twist but - to be honest - I think the episode could have done without that story and used that airtime to show us more of the race, and the racers.
Lightweight, forgettable stuff.
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Voyager. Season 7, Episode 2. "Imperfection"
Voyager. Season 7, Episode 2. "Imperfection" Seven Of Nine faces death.
Absolutely superb.
There are many, many things to love here.
1. Most of the screentime is devoted to the show's three best characters: Seven, Janeway and The Doctor. But it's not just that they get lots of screentime, it's that they get lots of good screentime. For instance, there's a wonderful, emotional moment between Janeway and Seven that is a huge step forward in their relationship/friendship (and it's perfectly played by Jeri Ryan and the amazing Kate Mulgrew). Impossible to watch this exchange and not feel tears forming. And it's a scene that is typical of many in the story.
2. It's an emotional episode, all round. Seven's scene with Janeway is probably the best, but the final scene with Icheb is also a killer and the scene with B'Elanna is another one likely to generate a tear or two. And there's more. It's a very powerful episode, very sad and affecting. Uplifting and wonderful in the way that this show frequently is. Voyager's skill, indeed the gift that the Star Trek legacy gives it, is the abilty to write on-the-nose about big topics and make it palatable. Seven might die. And it gives her pause to think and, eventually, talk about it. And it's epic stuff.
3. There's some cool Janeway action. The episode (wisely) takes a break from all the stuff likely to make you cry and drops Janeway, Tuvok and Paris into the middle of a battle where Janeway jumps an imposing alien and holds him at gunpoint (sorta). It's fun stuff. Typically of Janeway when she chooses to wear her bad ass hat.
4. It's funny. After seven seasons is there any need to say it? But, anyway... Robert Picardo is worth his weight in gold. Many of The Doctor's utterance's are hilarious. Usually, in scenes with Seven e.g. Seven's joke about her 'last meal'.
5. The core values of Star Trek are in display in spades, here. Janeway's attempt to head off on a dangerous mission alone are scuppered by Tuvok and Paris in fine style, and once again we see that these people are a team through and through.
6. Manu Intiraymi is a curious performer. Sometimes I find his delivery stilted and over-earnest. Yet, in all the scenes where it really mattered he totally nailed it. Totally. All his scenes from the last third of the episode are A+ material. It's taken 5 episodes, but I really like the guy now.
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Out Of Practice, The Detectives, NCIS, Seinfeld, Voyager, Lost
Thurs, Mar 20th, 2008
06:00 Out Of Practice
06:30 The Detectives
08:00 NCIS
11:00 Seinfeld
02:00 Voyager
03:00 Lost
Out Of Practice. Episode 16. Fred Dryer guests as Lydia's date. They want privacy in her apartment, for dinner, but Ben and Oliver are trying to get them out so they can lift the floorboards and retrieve a stolen snowglobe (trust me, it makes sense in context) and Crystal is hiding out after a fight with Stewart. As usual with this show, there's lost of running around and hiding from people and stuff. Good fun. Lots of laughs.
The Detectives. Season 4, Episode 2. Briggs and Louis are lost on the Yorkshire Moors. One handcuffed to a dead body, the other handcuffed to a toilet door. That sequence (which dominates the middle third of this episode is one of the funniet things I've ever seen). The first third revolves about the boys fighting over a women they both claim to have slept with, while the episode drags somewhat in the final third when they fall foul of some strange rural folk. Great episode though.
NCIS. Season 4, Episode 14. A complete change of pace, makes for a less enjoyable outing than usual. Jenny takes center-stage and we finally get a pay-off (of sorts) for all the undercover work Tony has been doing behind everyone's back. Because nothing much is resolved - and this feels merely like a set-up to future episodes - there is less satisfaction than usual.
Seinfeld. Season 9, Episode 4. Kramer is storing his blood in his appartment! I love it.
Voyager. Season 7, Episode 1. Superb conclusion. As usual, Voyager two-parters start off very strong and get better. Janeway, Tuvok and Torres are undercover on a Borg ship. As Borg. Shudder. Susanna Thompson does some of her finest work here. Janeway totally kicks ass in major confrontation scenes with the Borg Queen, and the episode ends with a Borg Cube under the control of the totally cool Korag.
Lost. Season 4, Episode 8. The story of Michael's time off the island. Lots seems to have happened in a very short time. Hmm. The show makes a clumsy attempt to cover up for the absense of Malcolm David Kelley and the story has a rushed feel to it. Never mind. Harold Perrineau carries the episode very well, we have lots of contradictory stuff to mull over for the next few weeks and it ends with several genuine shocks. Yay Lost!
Highlight? Voyager
The Shield, Voyager
Wed, Mar 12th, 2008
10:00 The Shield
12:00 Voyager
The Shield. Season 4, Episode 3. The pleasure here is in watching the layers of storytelling: every character seems to have two motivations for their actions. Vic, Monica, Dutch, everyone seems to have a Plan B. Apart from that, it's great to see the bond forming between Vic and Monica, but it's still very hard to see where all of this is going. She seems much tougher in this episode (especially in the cool final scene) but the viewer has to wonder if she can deliver on her promises. Dutch's frustration with Claudette is well written and played, and leads to a surprising conclusion. The show hardly remembles itself anymore (with a new main character and the Strike Team disbanded) but it is much better. And I never thought The Shield could get better than it already was.
Voyager. Season 6, Episode 26. Television rarely manages to write women that show genuine concern and respect for one another, but Voyager gave us Janeway and Seven, and this episode illustrates their bond very well. It's also one of the show's cleverest story ideas, as Seven is contacted by a dissident group of Borg who have found a virtual world in which to live out their lives as individuals. Janeway has a desire to take their virtual resistence out into the real world and this - of course - brings her into conflict with the Borg Queen. The story is fast moving, frequently shows the main characters gathered around one another for the big decisions and ends with a superb cliff-hanger. Janeway's plan involves being captured and assimilated!!?? Wow. She's crazy, but I love her.
Highlight? Voyager
Seinfeld, Voyager
Tues, Mar 4th, 2008
09:30 Seinfeld
03:00 Voyager
Seinfeld. Season 8, Episode 22. A great ending to the season. All the storylines are laugh-worthy, but my favourite is the one where Kramer accidentally wins a Tony award and lies off it for a while, before... having to fire Raquel Welch from a broadway production. Crazy show.
Voyager. Season 6, Episode 25. An unengaging framing sequence focuses on Neelix and the Borg children as Voyager is plunged into darkness while on an important mission. They gather round the campfire, um, lamp and Neelix tells them... a ghost story. In the told-story we learn how Voyager came to be in it's current predicament. We witness an event, months earlier, when an alien came aboard the ship and threatened everyone's live by messing with the ship's systems. Most of this is rather boring, because we've seen it a hundred times before. The episode only really springs to live in the closing ten minutes when Janeway starts to communicate with the alien entity and set about getting her ship back. Janeway is fantastic here, as she is in most episodes, and there is a lot of pleasure to be had from watching her do her thing. Otherwise, a forgettable episode.
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