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Enterprise, the conclusion
Jul. 14th, 2005 05:56 pmI've finished the fourth season of Enterprise.
( Spoilery Thoughts )
So, Enterprise, of which I now know one entire season and three episodes of another. Previously, I was inclined to think they should have given the franchise a rest after Voyager already. Now, I don't regret they made another any more; I did like most of what I saw. But I still see the problems, especially in comparison to the Sci-Fi shows with which Enterprise shared the screeen those four years. Firefly, BSG and Farscape all had an ensemble of roughly similar size, but the characters were very distinctive from the start. On Enterprise, I have no idea about what Merryweather (spelling?) is like, I know more about Mirrorverse Sato than I know about the real thing (though I liked her - she just didn't get much to do), and other than the proto-Section 31 membership, I don't know much about Reed, his likes and dislikes and personality, either. Which leaves Phlox, Archer, Trip and T'Pol, and out of these, the lead, Archer, feels the most generic. The fact that he's the leading man and thus doomed to certain general leading man characteristics is no excuse. Mal Reynolds, John Crichton and William Adama are the leading men of their respective shows as well, and are very different from each other, despite the general hero characteristics.
Meaning: I can see why it got cancelled. It galls that this happened after a season where the writing was mostly good and so were the performances, a season which could have lead to those weaknesses getting improved upon subsequently. But I still can't morn the premature demise of Enterprise as intensely as the cancellation of Firefly or Farscape, because the affection it was able to evoke just wasn't as thorough, for the above named reasons.
I'll look for fanfic, though. And will now go back to writing my Multiverse assignments.
( Spoilery Thoughts )
So, Enterprise, of which I now know one entire season and three episodes of another. Previously, I was inclined to think they should have given the franchise a rest after Voyager already. Now, I don't regret they made another any more; I did like most of what I saw. But I still see the problems, especially in comparison to the Sci-Fi shows with which Enterprise shared the screeen those four years. Firefly, BSG and Farscape all had an ensemble of roughly similar size, but the characters were very distinctive from the start. On Enterprise, I have no idea about what Merryweather (spelling?) is like, I know more about Mirrorverse Sato than I know about the real thing (though I liked her - she just didn't get much to do), and other than the proto-Section 31 membership, I don't know much about Reed, his likes and dislikes and personality, either. Which leaves Phlox, Archer, Trip and T'Pol, and out of these, the lead, Archer, feels the most generic. The fact that he's the leading man and thus doomed to certain general leading man characteristics is no excuse. Mal Reynolds, John Crichton and William Adama are the leading men of their respective shows as well, and are very different from each other, despite the general hero characteristics.
Meaning: I can see why it got cancelled. It galls that this happened after a season where the writing was mostly good and so were the performances, a season which could have lead to those weaknesses getting improved upon subsequently. But I still can't morn the premature demise of Enterprise as intensely as the cancellation of Firefly or Farscape, because the affection it was able to evoke just wasn't as thorough, for the above named reasons.
I'll look for fanfic, though. And will now go back to writing my Multiverse assignments.
