Current mood:

frustrated

Unimatrix Zero
After watching Unimatrix Zero (ST:VOY) again, I remembered why I stopped being a Trekkie. The milking of the Borg into infinity, constantly returning up to the point when I was surprised they actually managed to produce episodes without Star Trek's Dalek equivalent. It is, in fact, the same reason my Doctor Who fandom is disappearing. For some reason I just know Davros or Caan will be making another appearance in Season 5, possibly with another entire army constructed out of thin air.

Though the milking isn't even the worst part. You see that everywhere. My own favorite sitcom, Scrubs, did it with J.D. and Elliot. Burning each other, time and time again. Our TV-molten minds just seem to sit there and accept it, but now that the series is over, I'm surprised to remember wishing in the beginning of Season 8, a redundant season, that they end up together in the end, which spoilerifically, they do. Now, as our main character decided to start living close to the one person I wouldn't wish my worst enemy near (although Sean's a close second), they want to make a Scrubs 2 with Cox and Turk at the helm. I'm not saying it won't be awesome, but where's the ingenuity? Some originality?

The worse part is that by the end of ST:VOY, Voyager's crew, a single starship, crippled from 30.000 light years traveling, which also seemed to progress faster and faster, almost eliminates the entire Borg race via a single assimilation. Even worse, after the de-assimilation of Jean-Luc Picard, which I found reasonably original at the time, the rebirth of 7 of 9 was already an insult to the Borg, but at the end of Unimatrix Zero, three more MAIN characters allow themselves to be assimilated and are capable of complete rebirth, even though B'Elanna had some sort of voice modulator installed, Tuvok was a good way gone becoming a drone and... What the hell, The whole inhibitor to prevent me to become part of the collective bit? Even if it did work, the Borg wouldn't need three plus hours to adapt to the situation. They'd either remove it by force or just grow another implant, like Seven did, even when she was no longer a drone.

The worst bit is that I waited a good 1,5 years for the conclusion of this two-part disappointment to come out in the Netherlands. After that came Enterprise, a series set in the "past", because the writers were not creative enough anymore to think so far in the future. When it is time for a series to end, it is time. And ST:VOY's time came and went at the end of the fifth season, the two following were an insult to the creative genius that was the first season.

Yeah, I know... Geek hissy-fit, but it's no different for any other TV-series. Nowadays there are too many spin-offs of bad series, and those that are worthy go on for too long or, indeed, get a spin-off of their own that sucks. The most insulting part is that they try to resume everything now, from Knight Rider to Scrubs, from Star Trek to Doctor Who (not to mention the perpetual failures that were Star Wars I-III, steaming piles of Sith).

Then there's the whole, "Hey, 1 Marvel superhero made it to the big screen and it was a stunning success, let's see if it works with the other 5 bazillion!" I don't even think THAT's the worst part. The worst part is that all of their bastard creations ARE popular. And that, in return leads to SEQUELS! I will say at this point, I'm a fan of Spider-Man and X-Men, and have to admit I can't wait for Spider-Man 4, but X-Men Origins is already starting to show degradation of quality.

Then comes the biggest insult... Anime made into Live-Action movies! And I'm not talking about the first three (or so) Dragonball movies, but even though it wasn't actually a particularly awesome topic for a LA movie, after nearly 20 years, they're trying AGAIN! They didn't learn the lesson the last time that anime isn't meant to go Live-Action (Although, being a loyal Shampoo fan, I wouldn't mind a Live Action Ranma movie, if it didn't suck, and showed some purple, of course): Evangalion: Fail, Speed Racer: Not very good. Transformers: An impressive showing of CG, but otherwise, very much crap. Death Note: Haven't had the courage to watch, and not because Death Note's scary.

I need to stop ranting about TV and go to bed. So I think I will. XD

Non-TV wise I'm doing well, actually, although I still haven't recovered from my lack of sleep which is starting to get to me. It seems this week has been going on for a long time. Too long already. Lab shift is long and hard, and the machines have been acting up lately. Fortunately, they've been kind to me this week, though some are hardly usable anymore. It is hot upstairs, but I'm managing, sometimes cheating a bit with my airco. ^_~

I've finished three of the five Shampoo works in progress, so I've started on the worst cast I've ever seen. I'm very determined to make her as beautiful as a Musashiya original, though I'm not sure she ever was. I spent a good 4 hours trying to vile (or is it file?) off the worst casting residues, which in turn led to me going to bed at twelve. I seem to not realize how dedicated I've become to my purple-haired idol lately, mainly because it makes me happy to work on her and expanding my fandom.

Right, sleep. I need it. >_>;