Sorry... I'm a little drunk.
So I've been watching the Next Generation Blu-Rays and they're not quite as good as I remember them being (read: First Contact, Generations) some are better than I remember (read: Nemesis, Insurrection).
That having been said, all four movies seemed to focus very heavily on Picard and Data. On all four movies they receive the brunt of the storytelling and character arc-ing. That's okay, I suppose, since minority characters also receive some development (i.e., Riker and Troi refalling in love and getting married).
But, the rest of the characters (namely Worf, whom I can overlook, since DS9 was going on at the same time, and I think Worf got some good storytelling going on at this time) got some pretty shitty storytime.
However Geordi, whose been in the bottom rung for the NextGen movies gets a raw deal in these movies. For seven years he's been the blind chief engineer. He's never seen a sunrise and had been blind from birth. By the time Insurrection rolls around, he's pretty happy to have his sight. So, when they leave the Briar Patch, Troi and Riker are still very much in love and end up getting married four years later.
Would it have been so goddamned much to ask that Geordi been able to keep his fucking vision? That just seemed like a big fuck you to Geordi fans (which I don't consider myself to be, I'm just being an impartial observer).
In four movies of action schlock, the only character development that actually occurs (that has ramifications for the whole NextGEn series) doesn't even get a two second explanation in the following movie. Geordi goes from having perfect vision to all of a sudden needing his ocular implants again. What the fuck?
So I've been watching the Next Generation Blu-Rays and they're not quite as good as I remember them being (read: First Contact, Generations) some are better than I remember (read: Nemesis, Insurrection).
That having been said, all four movies seemed to focus very heavily on Picard and Data. On all four movies they receive the brunt of the storytelling and character arc-ing. That's okay, I suppose, since minority characters also receive some development (i.e., Riker and Troi refalling in love and getting married).
But, the rest of the characters (namely Worf, whom I can overlook, since DS9 was going on at the same time, and I think Worf got some good storytelling going on at this time) got some pretty shitty storytime.
However Geordi, whose been in the bottom rung for the NextGen movies gets a raw deal in these movies. For seven years he's been the blind chief engineer. He's never seen a sunrise and had been blind from birth. By the time Insurrection rolls around, he's pretty happy to have his sight. So, when they leave the Briar Patch, Troi and Riker are still very much in love and end up getting married four years later.
Would it have been so goddamned much to ask that Geordi been able to keep his fucking vision? That just seemed like a big fuck you to Geordi fans (which I don't consider myself to be, I'm just being an impartial observer).
In four movies of action schlock, the only character development that actually occurs (that has ramifications for the whole NextGEn series) doesn't even get a two second explanation in the following movie. Geordi goes from having perfect vision to all of a sudden needing his ocular implants again. What the fuck?
