Enterprise Cliffhanger

POSTED BY: CrevanReaver
UPDATED: Tuesday, June 1, 2004 03:28
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CREVANREAVER

Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:11 AM

The season finale of Star Trek: Enterprise just aired and it ended in a surprise cliffhanger! It was amazing and it proves how all those people who don't support that show are wrong. Season four is going to be great and I hope the show gets picked up for a fifth season.

GHOLA

Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:17 AM

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Originally posted by CrevanReaver:
It was amazing and it proves how all those people who don't support that show are wrong.

Yes because of course if you liked this episode of Enterprise then obviously anybody who doesn't must be wrong.

LEGALBEGAL

Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:45 AM

This was actually a decent episode of ST:E right up to the big reveal of the alien. The Nazi's in SF was cool and a possible future. Then they go with the alien and totally ruined the moment for me and all hopes for season four. And when I thought they where turning things around after the last two or three episodes.

How can this mindless dribble stay on the air when a quality show, FireFly, got canned before its prime.

DAVCO92

Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:23 AM

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I thought it was an EXCELLENT episode...until the very end. Total and utter drek IMO. More temporal crap when they need to move in a new direction. Vampirish looking alien Nazi's? I really want to like this show but BLEEEHHHHHH!!!! "Hey! Let's start the new season with the something innovative, fresh, and exciting...another time paradox story!" IMO it would have been MUCH better if they'd just gone for a soft, heartfelt happy ending and started fresh next season. Needless to say, the ending restored my lack of faith in the show, which had recently abated. Here's what they should do with the author that wrote that cliffhanger ending

Burn the land, boil the sea...

BADGERSHAT

Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:18 AM

I think it was a cool idea, to have the Nazis in San Fran thing... but on the other hand, one more temporal disturbance thingy is just irritating... and on top of that, I've ALWAYS hated season-ender cliffhangers. It's like when a really great song ends by just fading out... if you can come up with something good, end it for ruttin sake...

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HUMBLE

Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:26 AM

Watched most of it. More temporal crapola, doomsday weapon that looks like a Borg sphere, and Nazis at the end! Looks like the writers ate some old stories, threw them up and then made an episode out of the mess!

On an up note, the character development of Tripp, T'Pol, and the Doctor is good. If they're not careful they might become interesting. The unused cast members saw a little action. Think they may be writing Hoshi out. Mayweather might be gone as well. Hope a replacement for Archer is on its way! Please kill off Archer, BTW!

I hope it DOES get better if it stays on for a couple more seasons. Think the lackluster eps of this incarnation are damaging fan base of Drek franchise as well as possibilities for another series. (I'm not a big fan of Star Trek, but after so many years of doing this stuff you'd think the quality of eps would be great.)

Counting the days 'till Serenity comes out on the Big Screen!

CREVANREAVER

Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:48 AM

OK, I'll admit they might be overdoing it with all the time travel, but I think you have to give the writers credit for such a surprise. I can't imagine anyone who saw the episode ending with anything like that. And I for one actually like cliffhanger season finales. While sometimes they do piss me off a little, especially when they don't close enough story arcs, I think they give a lot of people a reason to tune into the premier of the next season. Come on, a lot of you may not have like everything in the finale but you know you're really interested in what's going to happen in the fourth season premier.

Of course maybe I'm wrong, please tell me if you don't care to find out what's going on and what you would do to improve the content of Enterprise episodes.

CYBERSNARK

Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:06 PM

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Originally posted by Ghola:
Yes because of course if you liked this episode of Enterprise then obviously anybody who doesn't must be wrong.

I know I'm gonna get flamed for pointing out that this is the same "logic" that a lot of Enterprise-bashing uses.

FWIW, I liked the ending. The cliffhanger is an age-old narrative tradition for good reason. If they'd given a happily ever after, there'd be very little to encourage even long-time viewers to tune in next season.

And it wasn't out of nowhere. I though something odd was going on when there were no Earth or Vulcan ships to help fight the Xindiball (like a Hamsterball, but for Xindi). I figured that, if the NX-02 had been completed ahead of schedule, it might've led a flotilla to try to support Archer, but what about the smaller in-system ships?

Besides, knowing what happened (we're in the past) doesn't give us how it happened (something wrong with the Xindi vortex, Daniels trying to help and screwing things up further, one of the other Temporal Cold War factions trying to use Enterprise like a chess piece, some temporal effect from the Xindiball going pop).

Besides, juxtaposing the cliffhanger twist on what should've been a resolution was a downright Whedonesque move. Remember, like, every episode of Buffy and Angel? Heck, when I saw it, I just froze for a few seconds before saying "huh."

Now, to make it more Whedonesque, they just have to make the alien a good guy. . .

BTW, I don't think the Nazis that found Archer were in San Fran; it was night out when the commander/general/whatever came in to investigate Archer, but it was daylight in Frisco. It also looked like the aftermath of a battle --something that, even with WWII-era tech, would've been visible as Trip and Travis were flying over the city (columns of smoke, etc).

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GHOLA

Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:12 PM

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
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Originally posted by Ghola:
Yes because of course if you liked this episode of Enterprise then obviously anybody who doesn't must be wrong.
I know I'm gonna get flamed for pointing out that this is the same "logic" that a lot of Enterprise-bashing uses.

Oh I realize that and I wasn't meaning to bash Enterprise I just didn't like the comment that this episode proved that Enterprise was great when that's purely subjective to individual viewers.

BADGERSHAT

Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:22 PM

I read a report that the plan for Enterprise is, they're bringing it back for one more season, and the writers have more or less been told to a) make the plot arcs less involved (two or three episodes long at most, a la OS and TNG), and b) write the fourth season's finale as a series finale, and a franchise hiatus.

I doubt they'd kill off Archer, and in light of the 4th being its last, I can't see them writing off any OTHER characters, either (Hoshi needed to go two years ago, she's completely not believable with all her languistic ability, and Mayweather has, in my opinion, come across less a major character than a token minority, which is sad, because they really could've done something decent with him).

The Used Parts Network doesn't have a whole lot of intelligence, either, because I ALSO read they're moving the gorram show to Friday nights... obviously, NO ONE learns...

--Jefé The Hat

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