tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post6839249152563895389..comments2023-10-11T09:04:08.311-05:00Comments on Powered by Indifference & Focused by Caffeine: 17 to 01: The Tholian WebVanVeldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441999455333315750noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post-20657637972033037712016-05-27T23:14:54.497-05:002016-05-27T23:14:54.497-05:00I'm actually kinda intrigued about the Tholian...I'm actually kinda intrigued about the Tholians coming back. Very few things about Enterprise interest me.<br /><br />As far as feeling pre-emptively jaded about things, <a href="http://southpark.cc.com/clips/388740/landslide" rel="nofollow">I get that sometimes</a>.VanVeldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03441999455333315750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post-41167079345826415252016-05-27T20:50:44.121-05:002016-05-27T20:50:44.121-05:00No worries, shit happens. Especially this time of ...No worries, shit happens. Especially this time of year. And I was expecting miscellaneous delays whenever you finished viewing season 3 anyways. <br /><br />I'm all for rolling old ideas around; but at some point it stops being "writers trying to get an idea right" and "everybody writes this so it's a trope now." I guess I'm feeling pre-emptively jaded about hypothetical shows I haven't watched yet--I'm sure the feeling will pass. <br /><br />I completely forgot that ENT's mirror-verse eps involved the Tholians! I was thinking of something earlier in season 4 with dozens of megaspheres. Maybe I'm wrong about what inspired those eps, then, since they had more fun with Tholians later. SkilTaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15496366094516039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post-16994749790667264212016-05-27T16:37:01.495-05:002016-05-27T16:37:01.495-05:00Dude, of the few Enterprise episodes I've seen...Dude, of the few Enterprise episodes I've seen, I actually did see the 2 (3?)-parter in the mirror universe. It was actually pretty cool. <br /><br />Me? I never get tired of taking a concept and rolling it over and over again until they get it right. Inexhaustible patience for that shit over here.<br /><br />I am sorry for all of the delays in posting lately.VanVeldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03441999455333315750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post-48761622747132132382016-05-27T16:26:29.995-05:002016-05-27T16:26:29.995-05:00An episode which is NOT about sentient crystals tr...An episode which is NOT about sentient crystals trying to sew shut a hole in the fabric of space. <br /><br />"Uhura, ghosts aren't real! Now keep looking for that ghost ship."<br /><br />The space suits are a real step up from their usual terrible away team protocols. I was so happy about that, and the colorful bits on the front of the suits, that I almost didn't notice that we only /get/ the suits so that Kirk can survive floating in transdimensional space later. <br /><br />Mutiny *is* a rich concept--good on TNG for scraping it out of this ep and making a two-parter out of it (with brain slugs). And y'know, ENT had a sequence of eps in a region of unstable space, which is probably derived from this TOS ep; and <i>FarScape</i>'s "Flax" ep looks like a straightup reworking of the Tholians' 'Web'... I'm not saying it surprises me how many people watch TOS and say "TOS didn't do [idea] very well, I bet I can do better;" and as a rule I *do* enjoy things that are composed of references to previous things; but I'm starting to feel like there's diminishing returns in having so many creators return to TOS' well too often. SkilTaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15496366094516039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post-48700132978153299612016-04-28T02:38:31.700-05:002016-04-28T02:38:31.700-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.SkilTaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15496366094516039415noreply@blogger.com