Alias Jumped The Shark, And Enterprise Is About To
Originally posted by Alex, on Friday May 09, @02:50PM.
Alias and Enterprise are two of my favorite shows right now,
but both are beginning to get on my nerves.
The second-season finale of Alias shows Sydnew Bristow getting in a fight with the imposter of her friend Fran, being knocked out, and then supposedly waking up in Hong Kong almost two years later. That's got to be one of the most heinous season-enders ever. I can only assume the producers of the show must be very confident that this will create a great storyline for season three, because that ending was a real letdown for me as a viewer.This week's Enterprise episode, "Regeneration", shows Starfleet discovering two frozen Borg at an arctic exploration station on Earth. As the Borg are exhumed and examined (at room temperature), their nanoprobes wake up and revive them. They assimilate the crew of the station and take off in a transport, heading for Borg space in the delta quadrant. Archer and the Enterprise encounter them and eventually destroy the ship, but in the process Starfleet learns an awful lot about the Borg that Star Trek canon (from Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes) does not account for. "Regeneration" references plot points in the movie Star Trek: First Contact to make the point that perhaps the timeline we're seeing in this series is not going to unfold into the future portrayed in the original Star Trek series and its descendents. This is very shaky territory, as far as I'm concerned, and it's convincing me that the producers of Enterprise are simply not interested in breaking new ground with this series. I'm really hoping the season-ending cliffhanger is good this time. I didn't really like last season's.So Alias has jumped the shark (some would argue twice, since the collapse of the Alliance was pretty annoying), and Enterprise is about to.