Gettin' From There To Here
Aug. 16th, 2011 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanamyI'm a little ways through the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise.
I'm not going to go into the whole theme song debate aside from saying that, aside from the question of if it worked or not, I do admire the choice to do something different. If you never try, you never know. In my view, the song is perfectly serviceable, not terribly good, but not the bleeding ear monstrosity fandom sometimes makes it out to be.
The cast is nice enough. I like Scott Bakula as the captain especially. All very pretty, naturally, but since it's the first season there's not really much else to say.
It's a good thing the cast is pretty, 'cause that's basically all the eyecandy you're going to get. The ship set is chrome & grey inside and out, the screen displays aren't very colourful, and everyone wears those dull blue jumpsuits. Well, everyone except T'Pol, who wears a brown catsuit and the Neelix, Dr. Phlox, who wears a grey smock. Alot of blue in this show too... the jumpsuits, their underwear (you'd think you wouldn't see it often enough to matter, but you'd be wrong) the Andorians, and the decon room.
Speaking of the decon room, it is hands down the strangest fanservice I've ever seen, and I play JRPGs. The purpose of it is that the transporter beam can't do that filtering out decontaminants thing like it does in the other shows, so when you come back from your away mission you're all crowded into this tiny quarantined room, you strip down to your underpants, a blue light comes on and you rub Purell all over your half-naked crewmates to get the germs off. Or something. That's the in-story explanation. Realistically, it's fanservice, but omg it's about as sexy as a prison flea dip.
It's hard to belive that given that much to work with, the same people who brought you Dabo Girl Underboob and Leeta on Risa could get fanservice so wrong. First off, blue isn't the most flattering lighting to be showing a lot of skin under, and the characters treat it like the unfortunately necessary medical procedure it is in their universe and clearly aren't enjoying themselves which makes it a little difficult to get in the spirit of things if you're in the audience. Once the Purell is on, everyone just looks cold and slimy.
The stories are basically the Star Trek traditional: new week, new planet, new adventure. No arcs or anything. I know there are some later in the show, but for now it's pretty much stand alone episodes.
Wow... two paragraphs on the shitty fanservice and only three sentences for plot. Wouldn't my parents be proud.
I'm not going to go into the whole theme song debate aside from saying that, aside from the question of if it worked or not, I do admire the choice to do something different. If you never try, you never know. In my view, the song is perfectly serviceable, not terribly good, but not the bleeding ear monstrosity fandom sometimes makes it out to be.
The cast is nice enough. I like Scott Bakula as the captain especially. All very pretty, naturally, but since it's the first season there's not really much else to say.
It's a good thing the cast is pretty, 'cause that's basically all the eyecandy you're going to get. The ship set is chrome & grey inside and out, the screen displays aren't very colourful, and everyone wears those dull blue jumpsuits. Well, everyone except T'Pol, who wears a brown catsuit and the Neelix, Dr. Phlox, who wears a grey smock. Alot of blue in this show too... the jumpsuits, their underwear (you'd think you wouldn't see it often enough to matter, but you'd be wrong) the Andorians, and the decon room.
Speaking of the decon room, it is hands down the strangest fanservice I've ever seen, and I play JRPGs. The purpose of it is that the transporter beam can't do that filtering out decontaminants thing like it does in the other shows, so when you come back from your away mission you're all crowded into this tiny quarantined room, you strip down to your underpants, a blue light comes on and you rub Purell all over your half-naked crewmates to get the germs off. Or something. That's the in-story explanation. Realistically, it's fanservice, but omg it's about as sexy as a prison flea dip.
It's hard to belive that given that much to work with, the same people who brought you Dabo Girl Underboob and Leeta on Risa could get fanservice so wrong. First off, blue isn't the most flattering lighting to be showing a lot of skin under, and the characters treat it like the unfortunately necessary medical procedure it is in their universe and clearly aren't enjoying themselves which makes it a little difficult to get in the spirit of things if you're in the audience. Once the Purell is on, everyone just looks cold and slimy.
The stories are basically the Star Trek traditional: new week, new planet, new adventure. No arcs or anything. I know there are some later in the show, but for now it's pretty much stand alone episodes.
Wow... two paragraphs on the shitty fanservice and only three sentences for plot. Wouldn't my parents be proud.
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Date: 2011-08-22 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-23 12:45 am (UTC)Since money was so much a factor, they should have just made it a 24th century show, maybe post Dominion War, 'cause they'd be able to re-use all the stuff they had lying around instead of making new props.
...actually, come to think of it, that might have been better overall. The show seems to struggle to look less technically advanced than the xmas light consoles from the '60s show and having to make TOS look like an enlightened future is just making everyone act like a dick.
If it's ever on TV, do check out the ep Shuttlepod One. It's the bottle show I was talking about, but it's not that bad (just cheap). As I recall, it basically launched the big Tucker/Reed slash ship back in the day. It pretty much could have been titled Slash Fangirls, This One's For You. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.
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Date: 2011-08-23 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-23 09:46 pm (UTC)Already I want to take Scott Bakula and the British guy and just drop them in a better show.