Occasional Denial

[redthroatedloon]

The Significant Other and I were going through some old tapes recently, and found a taped broadcast (sans commercials) of First Contact, which was the first (and possibly the only) good ST:TNG movie. Actually, it wasn't just good -- we both loved it, and place it among the top three of Trek films.

Which made me realized that we -- the S.O. and myself, and my best friend, for that matter -- have yet to see the final TNG film. Considering that all three of us were rabid TNG fans for many years, that always struck us as a bit strange -- until we remembered what friends had told us (vaguely, true, but still...) about the ending. Which none of us were particularly eager to see. So we all decided to practice denial as the better part of valor.

Same thing happened with the third Alien film. I liked the first, was wild about the second (unusual for me, inasmuch I'm not at all a horror fan), and when I heard about the beginning of the third, I just was Not Interested. Not at all.

Those are the only two I can think of. Didn't even consider not watching Stargate during the Daniel-less season, even though I thought the series had really lost something by his absence, and got positively bored on occasion. Perhaps because it's so much easier to avoid a movie than it is a TV series.

Anyway... that what I was thinking about today. Not very deep, but then, I'm in a wading mood....

Comments

[redthroatedloon.livejournal.com]

Well, the rest of the TNG movies were not terribly good (although the third would have made a decent two-part episode, with some judicious editing). I'm also very fond of a couple of the older Trek films, which is why I'd place First Contact somewhere with, say, Wrath of Khan and the one with the whales.

And yes, I totally agree with you that "All Good Things" was a marvelous end to the series. One of the few series ends, I think, that I thoroughly approved of. There's an unfortunate tendency among the writers/directors of long-run series to basically blow stuff up, kill people off, or do other totally life-changing things at the end of their reign. "All Good Things," with its final scenes of unchanging friendship and hanging-out, was indeed perfect.

[destina.livejournal.com]

Well, the rest of the TNG movies were not terribly good (although the third would have made a decent two-part episode, with some judicious editing).

*nod* I was speaking only of the next-gen movies. Apologies. *g* I'm a 32-year-and-counting-Trekkie, so I look fondly on the first six movies, even the ones that were crap less than optimal. To me, ST:TMP, Khan and Undiscovered Country are the only TOS movies worth seeing again at this late stage of the game, but I'm fond of all of them regardless.

[redthroatedloon.livejournal.com]

Interesting -- you may be the first person I've met who rates ST:TMP one among their favorites.

I have some really fond memories of it simply because it was the first (and we were so grateful for it!), but I don't think it was until the second film (where they rediscovered their sense of humor) that I really believed that Trek might last a few years longer...