This show is a complete mystery to me in the way I perceive it.
I know the original since being a kid. Always loved it and watched it many times. Read the books, too. When the mini-series came I hated it. Everything was different, especially the characters. So I never bothered with the rest that came later.
For whatever reason, years on, I decided to buy the DVD box. I watched the whole show and I was so drawn into it. The day hadn't enough hours in it to watch the episodes. One day I went through thirteen episodes in one sitting. Still a record. I thought it was amazing from start to finish and rated it accordingly "9".
Now, ten years later, I wanted to watch it again. Aside from knowing the main story line, which spoils a lot, I was really exited at the beginning. But that subsided pretty fast and by the middle of the first season I was getting bored. Is that the great show I watched before ? I don't like the story or the characters. And there are so many holes and logical problems in the plot.
By the end of season one I don't care any more and decide it's better to stop then ruin my memory of it being what it was.
This was great when it started but it became more and more of a commercial until it was unbearable to watch.
I've watched each season of any Star Trek show more times than I can remember. The Next Generation was a show I rejected at first but with every time I watch it I embrace it more and more.
Yes, there are a lot of things debatable about the premiere season in terms of quality of the writing, continuity errors, character developement, actors performances to name a few. It is easy to critisize after the fact and with many years now gone. And even I am the first to admit that there are many cringe worthy or eye rolling moments in this first season. But remember, althought they had the original show to base it upon, they literally started with a white sheet of paper. Especially with the characters.
I also like to write a few words about the remastered HD version as I was initially oposed to that. Having now seen it I have to say it really looks great. The special effects are what most benefitted from the overhaul. They look much more crisp and detailed now. In general the picture looks great and I am amazed what they got out of the original source material. A minor negative is that the picture background looks very grainy at times especially if you're sitting close to your screen, whereas the important foreground is almost always amazingly clear. It also gets grainy when there is camera movement whereas static shots are really the best. But that is not really a downside. Brilliant and vibrant colours.
It is now easy to read the screens (which I did ocasionally). At the same time it is also easier to spot minor imperfections on the sets and props plus you sometimes spot the egdes of the make-up on characters. And it becomes really obvious now when a stunt double was used. But those are all not really flaws, nevertheless I thought I share this remarks.
Voyager became a different show with season 4. It wasn´t a big overhaul but a lot of little things that finally made this show reaching up to it´s potential.
The addition of Jeri Ryan as Seven was a big plus. Althought she was ment to be the babe and bringing some sexy looks she´s done so much more. Seven brought conflict to the show. She was the sandpaper between the rest of the crew, always questioning their methods and motives. She was the strong opposite to Janeway, the both of them clashing horns at every corner, and I think a lot of time Seven was spot on in her assessment of Janeway. They wrote more interesting stuff for Seven in even half of the season than they ever did for Kes. I liked Jennifer Lien but I felt her character never really went anywhere in terms of developement.
I also liked the B´Elanna/Tom relationship. It was bound to happen to couple two characters and those two seemed to be the only ones believable.
Overall scripts became better, the show alltogether had more and better continuity. I still didn´t like any character particulary which over the whole run of the show never really changed. Personally I would have liked to see more of the Hirogen who, from the introduction, were far more interesting and threatening than the Kazon ever became. But I´ll admit that ultimately the Hirogen were maybe a bit to single minded and since Voyager was bound to move on draging the Hirogen along would have ultimately been the same as with the Kazon.
The second season didn´t provide much progress compared to the first. They were still doing what worked best before. I saw little in terms of character developement.
The whole idea of the show was to put a ship literally "where no one has gone before" but we only see glimpses of other cultures. Instead they keep dragging the Kazon along and it became more and more aparent with every Kazon episode that they didn´t work. As the writers and producers agreed later it was unfathomable that you travel a year and a half at high warp and still haven´t left them/their space behind. After all they were a sub-culture that overthrow their supressors just 30 years ago.
I still couldn´t pick a favorite character. Althought I don´t really hate one each of them had a minor flaw or two as far as I saw it. K. Mulgrew does a great job but I never could bring myself to like Janeway. Chakotay is kind of the dog that wants to please his master. The Doctor was still to arrogant but showed promise. Neelix is symply irritating. I can´t really say why I never liked Tuvok. Kes is a non-factor - they just didn´t found a way with her. B´Elana, Tom and poor Harry Kim all had there moments in the show but nothing that got to me. This was unusual because with every other Trek incarnation I had a favorite right from the get-go no later than the end of the premiere season.
But overall it still was on a level back at the time that few shows had so there was reason to go on.
Just finished season three of Voyager.
Luckily the Kazon are gone. If you´ve read my other reviews you know why I never liked them. That freed up time for other stories and species. In a way they pushed the reset button on certain things which helped the show in the long run. I would say this is the better Season 1. This Season has one of the best episodes up to this point f.e. "Unity", "Real Life", "Distant Origin" which was my favorite of this year. We meet the "Q" again, "Before and After" was really well made and "False Profit" was a fun episode to watch. But this season also contains the infamous "Trilogy of Terror". If you don´t know what this is about google it. For me it felt like a rolercoaster that has some really exicting sections and than some boring ones. They still couldn´t keep it on the same level for a whole year. Since there were more good episodes than in the first two season combined (this is my personal opinion I´m sure other´s feel different) I´d rank this as the best Season so far.
I could never quite figure out why Voyager was my least favorite of all the Star Trek shows. With TNG and especially DS9 I was hooked after Season 1. Voyager was more of an effort to like. Since it was Star Trek I wanted to watch it and like it. Which ultimately I did. For me until the end of this year in general everything was "just-so". Watching it now, almost 20 years later, I wonder if it hadn´t been Trek would I have had the patience to see it through ?
I try to be fair but seen with the rational mind of an adult this show is barely "meh".
The voice acting is absolutely overdone. Most of the villains are silly. Sound effects seem to come straight out of The Flintstones. Music between Pink Panther and Scooby Doo with a portion Peanuts.
Spider Man sounds like Adam West´s Batman, both in word as well as pronounciation and acts really dumb at times. "Oh, my spider sense is tickling" while someone stands right behind him.
Jamesson is completly possessed by Spider Man. Everything is Spider Mans fault, Spider Man is responsible - he sounds like a whiny child most of the time. That was my impression of the first season.
The Second season started with a great episode "The Origin of Spider Man" but that was a lone exception. In general 20 min episodes are just too long. They had too little content and oftentimes contain minutes of Spidey swinging around to some groovy soundtrack. It became increasingly more ridicolous, it felt like the writers were smoking weed. Elfes, demons, monsters or some kind of wild tribe, alltogether more sci-fi elements - it just doesn't fly.
Season 3 seems to be recycling old material with new dialogue.
For the intented audience that was probably under 10 I am sure none of this mattered. Unfortunately I don't have the fond memories of watching this as a child. I skipped some of the second season and the third just played with me paying no attention.
So I have to stick with "meh", sorry.
Attention: do not read unless you have seen the COMPLETE show !!!!
This show became so messed up during it´s run that I couldn´t bring myself to watch it to the end although I only had 3 episodes left.
It´s a shame because season one was really good, almost great. But with season 2 began the downfall. Plot twist after plot twist after plot twist - they screwed around to much with the stories. Add Percys constant whining about how he deserved credit for saving the country again and again and his bragging that he is superior to everyone which became more and more tiresome. Paired with Xander Berkeley´s not quite Emmy like performance and the fact that the writers failed to give him any real background you got one very unconvincing bad guy. But it was just enough to keep on watching hoping for better.
Than came Season 3 and now every episode is almost an excuse to keep the show going. Little sense in the plot, logical lapses at every corner and some crazy things like poking a needle in someone´s brain to make him do what you want. I know TV is make-believe but give audiences some credit for not beeing idiots. For two thirds of the season I didn´t even watch I just listened to the audio and even that became an effort. Like "Alias" the writers tried to much at once and got caught up in their own mess and needed desperate writing to get out of it.
And now comes Season 4, the conclusion, the big finale. It was downright ridiculous. Suddenly there are doubles everywhere up to president of the US and of course no one, not one single person, ever took note. But of course our heroes figure that out in 10 minutes. And we all fly around in a plane as our HQ, some of the most wanted, yet they never seem to have difficulties to land anywhere get fuel ect. I consider that almost an insult to intellect. And with only three episodes left I couldn´t bear another second and went online to read the ending up.
Usually I don´t rant about a show that much. I try to give fair ratings or analyze what I think was wrong even if I didn´t liked a show, recognizing the effort that was made to create it or knowing that people have different tastes. So keep in mind that this is nothing more than my personal opinion about a show that I just didn´t like.
From time to time I revisit Moonbase Alpha because it is still one of my favorites of all time and I associate a lot of memories with it. It was something we watched as a family and something I played as a kid.
There were some really good scripts in this first season and, yes, some bad ones too. Oftentimes though the good ideas were pulled down by cringe-worthy dialogue. It comes with the time and place this show was produced. It wasn't as sophisticated as Star Trek had been but I loved it nonetheless (I actually watched Trek much, much later). The 70s design fit really well and the modells they built looked great (if you know Anderson TV shows you know what I mean). Most people who are watching it today for the first time will put it among the silly 70s scifi show category. But those of us who knew it from back then will always appreciate it.
I have now watched it on BluRay for the first time and can absolutely recommend them. It's amazing how well they remastered this. The details are amazing and I have discovered things I have never noticed before. If you are a fan and haven't watched it in HD do so. You won't be dissapointed.
The Munsters - the other 60s TV horror family besides The Addams Family.
Althought I like both I must say I like The Munsters a little bit more. Fred Gwynne did an amazing job. Call be crazy but I think Herman Munster is one of the most lovable characters ever done. He´s like a 7 foot, 300 lbs child. The whole show is so enjoyable to watch. Another true classic.
had it´s moments.
First two seasons had too much Desperate Housewives for my taste. Thrid season started good than got hit by the writers strike which hurt it badly I think. Fourth season was the best and showed potential for a fith which didn`t come. Therefore I think the Finale left a lot open.
Alltogether not a waste of time watching it but not a show I would want to watch again at a later point.
One of the best first seasons of any TV show I've ever seen.
The original, the one & only Addams Family.
Love Ted Cassidy.
This show might have started as a competitor to Star Trek at the time. But we are way past the question if this is the better Star Trek.
The Orville more than stands on its own. It's an amazing show.
Fact !
Really good documentary series. Very interesting to see what jobs ships are used for all over the world.
Best show Kirstie has ever done (I don`t like Cheers). Unfortunately she never came close to that level again.
I love this show. Don't know if it is scientificly sound like someone mentioned but it gives me a lot to think and discuss about and that's made it worth watching.
Quit watching after about 40 episodes because quite frankly I couldn't stand it any longer.
I love science fiction but this I could never really get into. It had some good episodes but they were almost always followed by a bunch of bad to mediocre ones. The budget couldn't have been much because it looked cheap on every corner - sfx, masks, props - the sound effects were almost comical at times. I could have stand all this if they had at least decent writing or some science in science fiction. They had neither. And some admittingly good looking girls in tight outfits are not enough.
If other people like - fine by me - but I was hugely dissapointed.
When I started watching Wonder Woman I expected a cheesy, childish, stupid show with bad dialogue and funny sound effects.
I was surprised when I watched the first season which was much better than I anticipated. Some episodes had really good scripts, of course there was the usual goofiness that always comes along with superhero shows from this time. But all in all I found it really entertaining. Unfortunately that all went down the drain in the second season and it became exactly what I feared it to be in the first place. Budget was the reason they changed to whole show (google it, it´s interesting to know what happened). From this point on it was a typical good vs. evil spy show with the occasional mad scientist and alien plot. I had a hard time making it through the 22 eps of the 2nd season and I almost payed no attention while watching the third.
In the end it was a cheesy, childish, stupid show with bad dialogue and funny sound effects. The time just wasn´t right for superhero TV back than. Like usual they put a superhero in an otherwise mediocre TV show.
I watched a couple of episodes of this show on its original run and remembered it as being a solid scifi show. So I thought it would be a good idea to watch the whole thing. Now, I know it's makes a difference at what age you watch a show but this took an effort to make it through.I was on the brink of quitting more then once.
There are two points I want to adress that I repeatedly read about this. The first being that this is Star Trek under water. Not from where I stand. Star Trek always took strong position on social issues whereas with Seaquest the scale always tipps for the entertainment angle instead of really adressing the issues.
The second thing is that the individual season are becoming worser. Again from where I stand I wouldn't agree. Both, S1 and S2 and amazingly stupid episodes as well as a couple of decent ones. My average episodes rating of those seasons only has a margin slightly above a half point. They are pretty much on par. Season three includes the highest rated episode and does on average better than one and two.
I won't go into much more detail as I've written comments about every individual episode. So here is my average rating for each season:
S1: 5,565
S2: 5,000
S3: 6,308
Overall: 5,624
That's barely a six overall. It's my personal opinion so please don't let this disuade you from watching it yourself.
I found the Guardians movies among the best from Marvel but this animated version is terrible.
Maybe I'm putting to much into it with this being predominantly a kids show. But the characters don't have depth for prolongued stories. There is no developement whatsoever in them. They all have one trait that gets boring or in some cases, Quill especially, nerving.
I pretty much lost interest during the second season but continued for the sake of completion. And even that was tedious. The third season was then a complete nosedive and, quite frankly, dumb. As far as I've watched it because I regarded it as a waste of time to continue.
This wasn't for me.
Nope, that´s it, I´m out. Made it to S03E10 but I can´t stand it any longer. I´m sick of all that twisting and dragging out a plot forever. This show is hitting the reset-repeat button again and again and again. There is rarely something new happening. Plus there really is no need in watching this for some clues into the movies. They are working fine by themselves and the show has it´s own plot anyway.
I like superheroes as much as the next guy and I've read my share of comics in my youth. I never got into Superman, though. Don't like him much. That whole invincible, Man of Steel stuff and the underlying patriotism just never clicked. And don't get me started about the romance.
Having said that this show was for the most part really good. Some really good writing and coherent stories. Seemed alltogether more suited for adults than children. Although you could do things different back then.
This show contains a lot of what I do not like on TV today. But here it works and I really enjoy watching it.
If there is a fourth season, I hope there is no further terrorist threat. Light political entertainment that focuses on the characters is fine with me. We have too many shows with a terrorist background.
I only started watching this recently. And now that I've reached the beginning of S5 I have already decided to pull out.
I loved the first two season, they were an easy 10 for me. The third was exceptable to watch but the forth killed the show for me. Stupid side-plots that lead nowhere were implemented just to fill the extended season. Characters were killed for no apparent reason and those killings, for the most part, did nothing for the plot - they were just gone. For me, this show lived through and from its characters. And those who are left don't interest me any more. From one episode to the next I was sying to myself "watch another, maybe it's getting better". Not happening. Still, not awful, it just doesn't interest me any longer. I've seen what I needed to see.
They promised the show would be better in S5 but I for one am not buying in any longer.
I also wanted to watch the second season in HD, but I did not get past Episode 4. There are not many shows whose quality decreases so much from one season to the next.
As soon as the second season starts, you realize that it's a different show. The design has changed, which is not unusual. But here it was a step back. They just put in more stuff that had more flashing lights, but really did nothing but fill up space. And since the sets were getting smaller anyway due to the limited budget, everything seemed crowded. I really liked the simple and clear design of the first season. And the women now wear skirts - extremely modern and future-oriented (joke) .
Several cast decisions were made. Gone are Paul, Victor and David without a single word of explanation. In comes Tony and again no explanation. And they picked up Maya, played by Catherine Shell, because you need a resident alien and a little more sex appeal for the US audience. And of course there is a romance between these two new characters right away.
They also completely changed the soundtrack and the main title. While the first season included orchestral melodies and a strong main title, there are now synths in the main title and much more tempo that promises more action. And the style in the episodes changes from classic to funky and jazzy which does not fit at all to a sci-fi show.
To say that the quality of the stories worsened would be an understatement, it plumeted. Some ideas had substance, but if you think that the first season was missing in the science part or the dialogues were bad you should stay away from the second one.
The new producer Freiberger had a vision of where the show should go. It was the Americanization of a promising show. I do not think those changes where the show was needed. It backfired while the second season was still produced and in the end it killed the show.
I will always hold the first season in high regard and gladly whatch an episode here and there but I don't think I watch the second ever again.
HD Quality is good, though.
I love those old animation shows. That´s the stuff I watched when I was little and I still watch it today.
So, this is a kids show and I'm not the target audience. I can accept that.
The episodes have about 10 minutes of content and you don't get much in the way of storytelling or character arcs. I can accept that, too. Because it's a kids show. And it's called Justice League "Action".
But why do those 2nd and 3rd tier superheroes have to be such complete douchebags ?
In any case, it's not without entertainment value for the majority of episodes. With this format you can throw in a couple of episodes here and there. And it has Kevin Conroy voice acting as Batman. That alone makes it worth watching for me.
Batman is my favorite superhero and science fiction my favorite genre. If you put them together, it doesn't make either any better.
Apart from the occasional and expected silly parts, writing is actually really good most of the time. But a pseudo Iron Man type Batman is not my thing.
I have no idea why they thought they needed another kid. That Seven was totally annoying and did nothing for the show. Plus that motherly behavior of Peg at the beginning of the season didn't work. I don't remember if they ever explained what happened when Al found the relatives and why he lied that he didn't found them. Luckily the kid was used very sparsely.
