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Anyone listening to The Greatest Generation?
I'm sure there's a ton of Star Trek episode by episode review/commentary podcasts, but these guys take things a lot less serious and point out a lot of things I really hadn't noticed before. They seem to have experience (or at least more knowledge than I) in film and point out as many cool scenes as they do scenes that were done poorly.
Some of their prevailing themes include...
- Picard is inappropriate with Wesley
- Racisim is everywhere, either by design or accident
- Security aboard the Enterprise D is extremely lax
- 80s fashion is funny
They have one episode where they go into detail about the rise and fall of Chief Engineer Argyle from season 1. I don't even remember that guy and the story they tell is taken from an anecdote from Wil Wheaton. There's a lot of other early Next Gen tidbits that I hadn't heard of before.
The only negative is that they keep saying that they're embarrassed to have a ST podcast; when in reality, I think they are having a great time.
I definitely recommend it to anyone who can live with people poking fun at ST while enjoying it at the same time. Whenever I watch a show like ST, I usually do so through rose-colored glasses, so I miss a lot of the things that these guys point out. But, after it's been identified, I really think about the show more and although it takes away from the fantasy a bit, I find that I enjoy it even more.
I'm sure there's a ton of Star Trek episode by episode review/commentary podcasts, but these guys take things a lot less serious and point out a lot of things I really hadn't noticed before. They seem to have experience (or at least more knowledge than I) in film and point out as many cool scenes as they do scenes that were done poorly.
Some of their prevailing themes include...
- Picard is inappropriate with Wesley
- Racisim is everywhere, either by design or accident
- Security aboard the Enterprise D is extremely lax
- 80s fashion is funny
They have one episode where they go into detail about the rise and fall of Chief Engineer Argyle from season 1. I don't even remember that guy and the story they tell is taken from an anecdote from Wil Wheaton. There's a lot of other early Next Gen tidbits that I hadn't heard of before.
The only negative is that they keep saying that they're embarrassed to have a ST podcast; when in reality, I think they are having a great time.
I definitely recommend it to anyone who can live with people poking fun at ST while enjoying it at the same time. Whenever I watch a show like ST, I usually do so through rose-colored glasses, so I miss a lot of the things that these guys point out. But, after it's been identified, I really think about the show more and although it takes away from the fantasy a bit, I find that I enjoy it even more.