Series Finale
Last night we finished up both Futurama and Star Trek: the Animated Series. So we started watching Star Trek: the Motion Picture, mostly cuz it was there, and the Other One has never seen it. Good golly is that movie boring. (To be fair we're not very far into it...) It is just establishing shot after establishing shot after establishing shot. I'm also really unused to seeing the actors this age. Like, Scotty has his mustache... but he's still thin. It's kind of weirding me out to be honest. Loving the music though - they've got the Next Generation theme! Wheee! But everyone is Super SRS and Kirk is being kind of a jerk and Vulcans are just always jerks and nobody smiles which is pretty distressing coming right off the playfulness of the original series. But so it goes. I am slowly closing the gaps in my Star Trek expertise, and it is good.
The Futurama finale was very nice, very nice indeed. I had heard that it was coming, and so when the episode started I kept thinking "hmm, if this isn't the finale it really should be." Also the fact that the caption gag was "AVENGE US" was a bit of a giveaway. It was what a Futurama finale should be - very sweet and with a lot of time travel...sort of. Time Loops at least. Good times. And they all lived happily ever after :)
The Star Trek finale won over the previous Star Trek finale in that it kind of worked as a finale, if you squinted real hard at it. It also had wacky time shenanigans. And there was sort of a... not exactly passing of the torch, but coming around full circle, shall we say, with Commodore April, the first Captain of the Enterprise. (I guess this is in discontinuity with Archer then? We'll probably watch Enterprise next). And everybody de-aged into children and it was the most adorable thing EVER (they even did a good job of making the animation and the voices get younger gradually - it was super cool). All it really lacked was Dr. McCoy. But then, nobody would believe McCoy was ever a child...
It's interesting that both finales offered the primary couple a chance to go back and do over/relive a very long, happy, and satisfying life - and they chose in opposite ways. For honestly kind of the same reasons. It was interesting...
I'm very happy we watched the Animated Series. It was a lot of fun, though the animation was a tad ridiculous. And they were able to do story types which would have been extremely difficult live action. (More time travelling Spock is always more better, just gonna say.) AND ALSO THEY HAVE A HOLO-DECK. Well, they just called it the Rec Room but we both sat straight up and were like WAIT the Enterprise A had a holo-deck? WTF?? And one entirely without safeties, apparently. But yes, on the whole, good fun.
Of the Star Treks, I think I can now say that TNG had the best finale. I admittedly haven't seen Enterprise yet, but, TNG did have just a really good finale. I was not extremely impressed by the DS9 or Voyager finales (I have to say, Seven/Chakotay kind of ruined everything, and DS9 came off a little bit "...that's it?" to me), and on a scale of one to ten I'd have to give the TOS finale an i - that is, it really didn't have one in any way, shape, or form. (Stupid 60s shows ending abruptly with no finales... :/)
The Futurama finale was very nice, very nice indeed. I had heard that it was coming, and so when the episode started I kept thinking "hmm, if this isn't the finale it really should be." Also the fact that the caption gag was "AVENGE US" was a bit of a giveaway. It was what a Futurama finale should be - very sweet and with a lot of time travel...sort of. Time Loops at least. Good times. And they all lived happily ever after :)
The Star Trek finale won over the previous Star Trek finale in that it kind of worked as a finale, if you squinted real hard at it. It also had wacky time shenanigans. And there was sort of a... not exactly passing of the torch, but coming around full circle, shall we say, with Commodore April, the first Captain of the Enterprise. (I guess this is in discontinuity with Archer then? We'll probably watch Enterprise next). And everybody de-aged into children and it was the most adorable thing EVER (they even did a good job of making the animation and the voices get younger gradually - it was super cool). All it really lacked was Dr. McCoy. But then, nobody would believe McCoy was ever a child...
It's interesting that both finales offered the primary couple a chance to go back and do over/relive a very long, happy, and satisfying life - and they chose in opposite ways. For honestly kind of the same reasons. It was interesting...
I'm very happy we watched the Animated Series. It was a lot of fun, though the animation was a tad ridiculous. And they were able to do story types which would have been extremely difficult live action. (More time travelling Spock is always more better, just gonna say.) AND ALSO THEY HAVE A HOLO-DECK. Well, they just called it the Rec Room but we both sat straight up and were like WAIT the Enterprise A had a holo-deck? WTF?? And one entirely without safeties, apparently. But yes, on the whole, good fun.
Of the Star Treks, I think I can now say that TNG had the best finale. I admittedly haven't seen Enterprise yet, but, TNG did have just a really good finale. I was not extremely impressed by the DS9 or Voyager finales (I have to say, Seven/Chakotay kind of ruined everything, and DS9 came off a little bit "...that's it?" to me), and on a scale of one to ten I'd have to give the TOS finale an i - that is, it really didn't have one in any way, shape, or form. (Stupid 60s shows ending abruptly with no finales... :/)