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I've still been watching...
The last two episodes did pick up the pace a bit and now that they've finally got moving it's....over?!?
It's funny...was half-watching this show called "Trek Nation" tonight and someone on it made the comment that Roddenberry created the characters first and kept the focus on their development with the original "Trek" and that's the one main thing missing from TN...there hasn't been any real effort to make these characters compelling or interesting. They just kind of lurch from week to week not really doing anything. And if they do something, there is no consequence to it (big example: The son steals life-saving meds, threatening his mother's position, endangering the lives of others and....not even harsh words from the Commander or his parents...I mean, WTF?)
This week's effort highlighted Lang's charisma, but Mira is a loser of a character...more a hostage to her so-called cause opposed to being a champion of it ... a real lost opportunity for the writers to establish some real tension.
And where are the dinos? Sure haven't seen to much of them so far....
It's a pretty rare thing to see a new show rocket out of the gate with a good concept, a tight cast and a great production and this one's far from it... (Although this show's list of "producers" every week is longer than the cast! An army of folks and they still can't tighten this show up...) TN still has some elements to it that could make it unique, but as it limps to it's conclusion, it's hard to imagine Fox will want to spend more on this and go for another season....we'll see.
The last two episodes did pick up the pace a bit and now that they've finally got moving it's....over?!?
It's funny...was half-watching this show called "Trek Nation" tonight and someone on it made the comment that Roddenberry created the characters first and kept the focus on their development with the original "Trek" and that's the one main thing missing from TN...there hasn't been any real effort to make these characters compelling or interesting. They just kind of lurch from week to week not really doing anything. And if they do something, there is no consequence to it (big example: The son steals life-saving meds, threatening his mother's position, endangering the lives of others and....not even harsh words from the Commander or his parents...I mean, WTF?)
This week's effort highlighted Lang's charisma, but Mira is a loser of a character...more a hostage to her so-called cause opposed to being a champion of it ... a real lost opportunity for the writers to establish some real tension.
And where are the dinos? Sure haven't seen to much of them so far....
It's a pretty rare thing to see a new show rocket out of the gate with a good concept, a tight cast and a great production and this one's far from it... (Although this show's list of "producers" every week is longer than the cast! An army of folks and they still can't tighten this show up...) TN still has some elements to it that could make it unique, but as it limps to it's conclusion, it's hard to imagine Fox will want to spend more on this and go for another season....we'll see.