TV meme

[vilakins]

Nicked from many people:

So you're cleaning all the dust off your TV screen and a genie pops out. In return for freeing her, she offers to grant you 5 changes to any TV show(s) you wish. With only 5 wishes, what do you wish for?

Blake's 7: No season 4! People say happy endings don't go with the universe, but hey, I'd be satisfied if it had ended as it was meant to--with Terminal. They'd lost the Liberator but Servalan had also died, they were all alive and had a future and a crashed ship which they might be able to repair and leave in. That gives them a loss, a gain, and some hope--and imagine all the speculative fanfic people would have written.

Babylon 5: I'd get JMS his fifth season in enough time for him to develop his story at the pace he wanted to. Maybe that way we wouldn't have had the all-too-hasty and very disappointing resolution to the Shadow/Vorlon war and all those intriguing mysteries boiling down to what seemed to be nothing more than a spoiled child's game.

Star Trek: TNG: Just don't give Data any emotion chips! His androidness is what made him so utterly fascinating; why try to turn him into just another human?

Star Trek: DS9: I've got just two words to say to you: More Garak!

BSG: Lose Gaius. He's a waste of skin, and a profoundly irritating one too.

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

re Data, yes! One of my pet SF peeves is androids/robots/whatever who Want To Be Human - I love the Red Dwarf ep where Kryten tries it and finds it overrated!

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, me too! It also irritated me because it was always my belief that Data did have emotions, they just weren't particularly human emotions, and he didn't recognize them as such, nor did the people around him acknowledge them as such. But I always saw them, and they were nicely subtle and non-human. Nothing subtle about that chip. Sigh.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Aww, I think B7 doesn't make sense without Episode 52. But there should have been an S4 where things keep going more and more pear-shaped even though they're not all acting like idiots. It would also have been better if they'd started out on Scorpio (which would also explain why Blake didn't acquire a full staff of actual rebels) and moved up to Liberator but still not been able to defeat the Federation.

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

Couldn't agree with you more about season four. Except that I quite like Assassin. And most of Gold. And some bits of Warlord. And some bits of Headhunter. Can we have Soolin without season four? And now that I'm re-watching season two, my historical favourite, I'm wincing at Voice from the past (as usual), Hostage (more than I used to) and the first half of The Keeper. Maybe there's some way to blend the best half of each season together? Sigh. It was all so simple once. S4 bad. S2 good.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think B7 doesn't make sense without Episode 52.

It's the other way round for me: ep 52 renders the rest of it meaningless. :-(

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

All seasons have good eps and all have abysmal ones; it's just that S4 is the worst season for so many reasons: OTT and perhaps insane Avon; no change of clothes and possibly underwear; crap plots; Servalan being alive and pretending to be someone else without even bothering to disguise herself when anyone with half a brain would recognise her; 'Sleer' showing up everywhere our guys go--did she bug Tarrant? I could go on but it's dinner time.

Yes, there are bad eps in S1 and S2, but they still have hope and a future.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Nope. I just cringed when he cried when he found Spot in the wreckage. One of those small Data smiles would have sufficed.