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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 942447" data-attributes="member: 7394">I agree that moves are looking pretty good.My displeasure with Star Wars is more work related, and something I actually can't really get into. Lets just say that while I think that the prequels have been technically superior to the classic trilogy, it seems to be lacking in the overall spirit and energy of the classic trilogy. I want to believe episode 3 will be good, but I'm having a hard time being optimistic about it. Maybe time, and not working with it on a daily basis will change my opinion of it. I do think the Star Wars RPG is good and getting better.On the dead shows list, I think Millenium was brilliant. Too brilliant for most audiences, unfortunately. The intrigue was there, and it was soooo dark. I loved it for its darkness. I would love to see them do a movie about Frank Black, even if the Millenium story arc was resolved in the X-files. I would watch Jeremiah if I had Showtime. I'll give anything Straczynski is involved with a chance.I hated Earth:Final Conflict, and was relieved when they finally canceled it. It wasn't horrible when it was just the Thalons (or however you spell them), but the replacement storyline and the new aliens were just lame IMO.Enterprise is cool, but I think the Trek franchise is in serious trouble. First of all, how was it a good idea to do a show set so far in the past that it's practically irrelevant. OK, so we have the temporal cold war to make it relevant, and with the new story arc, the whole timeline we are familliar with seems to be compromised. The series finale of Voyager gave the Federation technology that is just getting way out of hand, so the only way to even make it interesting is to go back in time. Offing the Next Gen cast was another huge mistake. That last movie was cool in parts, but the overall story left so much to be desired. And all the cool parts were borrowed from other Trek movies. The death of a crew member who leaves his brain elsewhere for later retrieval, the near destruction of the ship, reform in the relations between the Federation and one if its enemies, and a ship that can fire while cloaked. It might have been a better movie had the cool elements not been ripped from the other even numbered movies. Another thing, they talked about that radiation weapon Shinzon was using as though it were the only planetkiller they had at their disposal. Wasn't Kirk going to blow a planet way back in the original series? I would think that they would have the technology to destroy Earth without resorting to such outlandish means. Why not just bring along an extra warp core and beam it down to Earth? Wouldn't that pretty much do the trick? Rick Berman said that he couldn't figure out why the movie didn't do well. Two reasons: it needed a plot that wasn't warmed over leftovers (not to mention a horrible ending for a crew we were all quite fond of), and the timing of the release. What would have possessed Rick Berman to put it agianst Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, especially when he could have waited a couple months when it would get more attention?Anyway, I think Enterprise would be a better show if they would have just given Scott Bakula a ship and put him in the Trek "modern" era, and then jettisoned the whole of Voyager series as non-canon. I think I can feel the vibrations of Gene Roddenberry thrashing in his grave from here.I'm also not a huge superhero fan. I'm of the opinion that they shouldn't do a Hulk movie as long as Bill Bixby remains in the grave. That pretty much does it for Smallville as well. OK, maybe I am coming off a little crumudgeony. I just want some good thought provoking science fiction.</blockquote>

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