Man, what an amazing performance from Ray Wise (Leland Palmer)!
I loved seeing Albert Rosenfield again!
This episode was chilling!
So is this Bob a spirit, or a devil that possesses people? So if he left Leland's body, this thing is going to search for someone else to get into cuz he promised for more killings, right? Prediction: I think he's going into Leo's body. I don't know!loading replies
@pato22 well Bob did kill Leland
Once again, we find an Enterprise crew member alone aboard an alien ship without any Universal Translator, but still able to perfectly understand every alien language spoken on board. Funny how language is only a barrier when the plot requires it to be.
I found the T'Pol/Phlox plot even more uncomfortable than "Tuvix", which I watched yesterday. To be quite honest, I have no idea what point it was meant to serve. At least the main plot with Archer being captured by a bounty hunter working to service the Klingons' price on his head had some relevance to continuity and a cliché moral point to make (good men can be driven to awful deeds under the right circumstances). T'Pol throwing herself at the doctor (and, once, Malcolm) seemed to be pure fanservice.
Anyone who's read my reviews or chatted with me about fanservice in anime knows the disdain I have for the practice. It applies equally to live-action and Western media, worry not. Briefly, I think sexualizing a character just for the hell of it (as this seemed to be) cheapens the entire series. Enterprise isn't alone in this. The same was done in Voyager, first with Kes, then with Seven when Kes failed to hold the target male viewership demographic. The Next Generation did it with Deanna Troi and her absurd non-uniform. I can still call it out when I see it, especially because other Trek series did the same thing. It's a pattern.
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@dgw Honestly it feels like for some reason they wanted Trip to be in command of Enterprise while they searched for Archer (since with T'pol being indisposed, Trip is next in command). But he never really acts differently than she would. To me it felt like that could have been a better reason. Basically the stories could have focused on (1) Archer being kidnapped, (2) Trip trying to search for him (he barely does anything on screen), (3) T'pol is sick or unconscious--they don't even need the pon farr part in there. I think they should have focused more on the ways Trip was trying to find Archer than the weird Phlox/T'pol thing. But like you said they just had to make is sexual.
Is this "organic circuitry" the supposed basis for bio-neural gel-packs?
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Well I suppose the bio-neural gel-packs are the basis for the organic circuitry.
> Jeffrey Combs
> and Ethan PhillipsI heard Phillips' voice immediately. Yes, I was a bit excited. Yes, I was later disappointed.
It's so fun seeing recognizable real-life products disguised as futuristic sci-fi props. In this episode, it was two bottles in Sickbay that were clearly SIGG brand (and only very slightly touched up by the props crew). Nothing compared to Quark using my family's picnicware glasses every day in his bar on DS9, but still fun.
So there are only 173 Rules of Acquisition at this point in time? A lot changes in a century.
"There are fourteen weapons lockers on this ship." — And none of them should be accessible without any authentication at all. The key word is locker. They're supposed to be locked. Sigh.
Nice touch that they threw in "Do I look like a Menk to you?" as a reference to "Dear Doctor".
So Porthos wasn't affected by the gas? Does it only work on humanoids?
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@dgw Only 14 weapons lockers and in Shadows of P'Jem they say they have only 15 Phase Pistols. I guess the rest are EM-33 Plasma Pistols?
