An episode of two halves, with the first being a very enjoyable suspense/mystery thing with the crew acting weird, and the second half being a mostly okay monster-hunting expedition. The first reminded me somewhat of DS9's 'Whispers' with the paranoia angle, but it takes things in a very different direction. The episode also fooled me somewhat with the initial letters from home angle, something I was interested in.
In fact, I would have loved the majority of the episode to have been about Seven trying to get to the bottom of what was affecting the crew without being caught, it was all quite enticing. Instead we get Seven, The Doctor and Naomi Wildman teaming up with a pretty awesome grizzled alien dude who seems to be some kind of monster-ass-kicking Viking. I liked him.
It's a shame we get the expected and very typical false ending ("Wait! We're STILL INSIDE the illusion!"). And the beast itself is not very imposing or all that well realised, Voyager just merrily floats along inside it and we get occasional shaky-cam.
I'm really enjoying the evolution of Seven's character, anyway.
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An episode of two halves, with the first being a very enjoyable suspense/mystery thing with the crew acting weird, and the second half being a mostly okay monster-hunting expedition. The first reminded me somewhat of DS9's 'Whispers' with the paranoia angle, but it takes things in a very different direction. The episode also fooled me somewhat with the initial letters from home angle, something I was interested in.
In fact, I would have loved the majority of the episode to have been about Seven trying to get to the bottom of what was affecting the crew without being caught, it was all quite enticing. Instead we get Seven, The Doctor and Naomi Wildman teaming up with a pretty awesome grizzled alien dude who seems to be some kind of monster-ass-kicking Viking. I liked him.
It's a shame we get the expected and very typical false ending ("Wait! We're STILL INSIDE the illusion!"). And the beast itself is not very imposing or all that well realised, Voyager just merrily floats along inside it and we get occasional shaky-cam.
I'm really enjoying the evolution of Seven's character, anyway.