Alelou wrote:I find that arc so tedious. Did they really need three episodes for it? Do we give a fig about the augments' in-fighting? Couldn't they have done it as a two-parter, instead of dragging it out for three eps? At second viewing I began to wonder if they were simply trying to amortize set costs and save themselves from having to write another original story...
I haven't watched these yet. Did Brent Spiner appear in all three? Maybe they thought the more episodes they stuck him in, the more people would watch, especially since it was that early in the season. Y'know, capitalize on that Next Gen popularity and all that.
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What's worse is that before I found you all, my knowledge of the episodes was spotty at best--I'd seen most of Season One, about half (maybe) of Season Two, and just a couple of episodes here and there of Seasons Three and Four. I've got Seasons One through Three on DVD now and I'm slowly catching up, but it's weird because I'm not going in completely blind, but sometimes I get those "A-HA!!" moments where something in one episode I hadn't seen yet explains something later on that I did see, the "Oh, so THAT'S what they meant by..." So it's like watching it all dyslexic or something. (Now you know why trying to write this stuff is still pretty daunting to me!)
