I had become accustomed to the intro for the past two seasons … I even learned the lyrics now
I turned on the first episode of season three and I felt like a Mariachi Band had taken over the show
And the first thing I thought of was Q and his Mariachi Band … I felt like Picard as I listened to the new intro (new to me)
Buckle up for S3! You are about to witness ENT come into its own and it’s glorious.
This is the real year of hell and they don’t pull any punches.
I think I want to rewatch 3x15 Harbinger again.
I’m looking forward to it … so far it’s been a let down with lots of inconsequential episodes that don’t have anything memorable to them. One of the big highlights that stand out for me are Shran and the Andorians … everything else is pretty bland.
I hope this isn’t a spoiler, but this about sums it up for me:
It’s especially jarring considering how thematically heavy the dry open is. Such a weird choice to change it on that season
That’s exactly how I felt … I had just finished a dramatic season finale and I was wondering how the conflict was going to play out in the season opener … then all of a sudden this upbeat Margaritaville remix comes on and it completely ruins your expectations … I still like the song, I just didn’t like the change
The worst part is that season 3
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Is the darkest of the series.
So far I feel the first two seasons of Enterprise have been pretty flat at this point. It isn’t bad … but it also isn’t good either.
I didn’t get the same feeling with TNG, where I was often surprised or excited by the unusual storylines they presented. VOY always felt like a running adventure and I expected that because of the situation.
But with ENT, I was expecting more of what TOS offered with insightful, even inspiring storylines but everything just seems to be luke warm on everything and nothing seems memorable or notable.
It’s definitely not for everyone. But I liked a lot better than VOY. So far the one’s I have/would re-watch are TOS, TNG, and DS9. I would definitely skip several episodes on all though.
If you feel that way then beware… it gets much worse, then a bit better, then arguably almost unwatchable by the end of the series. :-(
TNG, VOY, and TOS are really an entirely different genre. DS9 is too, but in an superbly awesome way 😎. ENT is… well, it exists as well.
I feel like I am having deja-vu too … I think I may have watched some of ENT a few years ago and gave up because many of the episodes I saw and even the first episode of season three make me think I may have already watched all this and gave up on the whole series. This time round, I going through with the whole thing just to see what it is. Yes I had just finished DS9 a few months ago so I was looking forward to ENT but I’ve been let down so far.
DS9 is outstanding, if you have time to sit and watch episodes consecutively while you still remember what the previous episode was about. Long form content, made even before that was industry standard as it is now. Story arcs that took multiple episodes to finish (Babylon Five is this way too), so a bit closer to a “movie” than a single episode meant to be consumed in one sitting, like TOS, TNG, and VOY. Both formats are good ofc, just different, with each offering something that the other lacks, by design.
ENT I never really understood. Somewhere in there it starts to get into time shenanigans (season 5 maybe?), which I always loved everywhere else I’d seen it in the Star Trek universe. However, I barely could get through it in ENT. Perhaps I was just too busy irl to really give it justice though.
I hope I don’t unfairly prejudice you against enjoying the rest of the show. My aim was to reassure you that you are not alone: the show really does get difficult to watch, by virtue of not being as you expect, coming from the likes of TOS, TNG, and VOY, and then DS9 for longer-form story arcs. Maybe there’s a trick to enjoying ENT? I would hope so, but don’t know it.
Instead I gravitated to other series - Firefly, Farscape, Andromeda, Babylon Five, Battlestar Galactica, there’s so much good to see that is available, and only so much time to spend watching it! On the other hand, Star Trek really is a special franchise… My solution to get through ENT was to do other activities while having it on and so not devoting my full attention to it. Even that got difficult by the end of the series… :-(
ENT I never really understood. Somewhere in there it starts to get into time shenanigans (season 5 maybe?)
ENT only had 4 seasons. Also, the “Temporal Cold War” stuff started with Season 1, Episode 1.
Don’t worry about it … I think I already did go through this once which is why I don’t feel so strongly about ENT again this time.
And it’s not a complete loss either … I go on my treadmill every night and watch an episode while walking. 45 minutes is a good length of time for me to go for my walk and it all works out.
And I can see the difference … when I watched DS9 on the treadmill, the walks always felt like nothing and I often wanted to stay on to watch the next episode but I had to hold back. Every walk with ENT feels like I had gone for a walk and I noticed the exercise.
ENT felt like to me that they tried to grab some extra cash by making use of the Star Trek franchise, regardless of the damage they would do to the latter while chasing the former:-P. But perhaps I’m being unfair and simply did not understand the style. Or maybe it’s just art and thus some people will absolutely love it while others hate it. I did not care for it. I really tried to, but it just seemed to drag on forever and leave me unsatisfied, as you are seeing as well.
It gets worse. On the other hand, if there is only four seasons then you’re more than halfway through, so if you keep going then at least you could say that you made it through!?
(/s, but go with it anyway - and make sure your responses are in meme format!)
Also be prepared for the season long 911 allegory.
Be honest - this clip is what drew you in, wasn’t it? :-P
Surely no… “questionable” decisions were ever made in that series, r-r-right!!!
(By anyone other than Rick Berman ofc)
He should have taken it a step further and asked Pornhub to broadcast an episode
B-b-but I didn’t see one there when I went to look for it…Uh, I mean I haven’t heard of people talking about such a thing… 😁😳🤗
