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travelling back in time...
I'm in the middle of rewatching Voyager (Tuvix to be exact) and I'm reminded why I was totally, utterly in love with this show in spite of all its shortcomings. Okay yeah, the special effects and sets look sooo fake and the technobabble is worse than what they served on SGA: you have to not just suspend your disbelief, you have to tie it up, gag it and blindfold it before you do. Wow. But all that doesn't matter because the characters are wonderful. I can't just pick one favorite, I'd have to pick four or five. The show rarely lived up to its potential but you saw enough glimpses of it to stay hooked.
Plus I really think it helped that I first "saw" the show on British Sky, which I could receive in Germany but sound only, picture scrambled. Which sounds weird for a sci-fi show but if the characters and dialogs are strong and your mind can provide the setting, that can actually be a feature not a bug. 'Rise' was one of my favorite episodes when I first "saw" it and when I saw it for the first time with video I was kind of disappointed because while it never felt like a bottle show it sure looked like a bottle show; it had looked so much more authentic in my imagination. I still like to watch some tv sound-only. Works for DS9, too.
Also, Tuvok & Neelix = bff, no question 'bout that. :)
...back to my ep!
oh btw, anyone got any Voyager fic recs? I particularly like Chakotay, Janeway, Neelix, Tuvok, Seven, the doctor... Janeway/Chakotay, Seven/doc, Tuvok&Neelix friendship, or Gen. Any length. (I already know Talking Stick/Circle.)
Plus I really think it helped that I first "saw" the show on British Sky, which I could receive in Germany but sound only, picture scrambled. Which sounds weird for a sci-fi show but if the characters and dialogs are strong and your mind can provide the setting, that can actually be a feature not a bug. 'Rise' was one of my favorite episodes when I first "saw" it and when I saw it for the first time with video I was kind of disappointed because while it never felt like a bottle show it sure looked like a bottle show; it had looked so much more authentic in my imagination. I still like to watch some tv sound-only. Works for DS9, too.
Also, Tuvok & Neelix = bff, no question 'bout that. :)
...back to my ep!
oh btw, anyone got any Voyager fic recs? I particularly like Chakotay, Janeway, Neelix, Tuvok, Seven, the doctor... Janeway/Chakotay, Seven/doc, Tuvok&Neelix friendship, or Gen. Any length. (I already know Talking Stick/Circle.)
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I never cared that the sets were not top quality or about the technobabble. Suspension of disbelief is my middle name of course, but I also think it's because I first saw it ten or so years ago, when my son was a baby and I felt pretty lonely most evenings. It's just such a comfortable show with likeable (main) characters all around.