I was going to leave this post until tomorrow as I have already posted today. I couldn't wait though. I wanted to get my thoughts down while they were still fresh in my mind.Last night I finished the last of the TNG boxsets. I seem to have rushed through them this week but it wasn't like that at all. Each of the episodes on this series were so familiar to me that it was easy to just keep watching. It was funny though as there were a number of episodes and themes that I was convinced were in an earlier season. Episodes like "Phantasms", "Masks","Eye of the Beholder" and "Emergence" I definitely remember as being in the last series. At the time of first watching I saw these as some of the more bizarre story lines in NG which is probably why I remember it from this season. Episodes though such as "Inheritance", "Parallel's" and "Attached" I was convinced were in an earlier series. I don't know why it got all mixed in my head. As I was watching them I remember wondering what happened with the episode where DaiMon Bok returns for yet more revenge. I was convinced that I had missed an episode somewhere along the way until I came across it near the end. I even thought that the Deanna/Worf relationship had begun much earlier than it did. Funny how that happens.
Some of my favourite episodes have to be some of the stranger ones. I loved "Phantasms", "Masks" and "Genesis". Data plays a rather large role in each of these (as he does through out the majority of the series). Although it would have been nice to see more of the other characters Data has always been one of my favourite characters. I especially liked the idea of an android discussing his dreams with Freud. I also have a soft spot for "Lower Decks" even when I first watched it. I loved this story that was about the officers who were at the beginning of their career. The ones who are usually just background in each episode. It was also nice to see what happened to one of the four academy cadets who got into trouble along with Wesley for carrying out an illegal maneuver.
I do have a confession to make. I always hated the last episode. I remember watching "All Good Things..." the first time and I was so disappointed. I refused to watch it again. I hated everything about the episode. I thought it was dull and boring and a bad way to end the show. As I neared the end of watching this boxset I wasn't looking forward to it. I even thought about just leaving it out. In the end I couldn't do that and I'm glad that I did. The running theme as I have watched all these episodes again from the first series through to this is that I found that my opinion on many episodes had changed. Some that I wasn't to fond of the first time I learned to enjoy. Others I grew out of. Watching this last one was probably the most dramatic change. I was hooked from the first moment and I enjoyed every minute of it. I like seeing the crew in the past and the future. I loved the fact that the Q were back testing humanity as they had in the first episode and that Q had helped Picard get the answers he needed. It was a nice ending to the whole show.
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I always liked the last episode. In fact, I think the last two episodes were my favourites of the seventh season especially the penultimate episode "Pre-emptive Strike".
Picard's disappointment over Ro, one of my favourite characters and sadly underused in the series as a whole, since her introduction in season five, was very tangible in the closing moments of the story.
My favourite part of the final episode of TNG was when Picard finally joins the others around the poker table, looks around him, and says "I should have done this a long time ago" or words to that effect.
I have emailed several of my favourite authors and recieved replys from them. Well, it's said to be them anyways. I guess that it could be some assistant or something. Anyways, my favourite historical/fiction author Sharon Kay Penman and I have exchanged a couple of emails. Also one of my most favourite fantasy writers Jacqueline Carey and I have also exchanged emails a couple of times. It still knocks my socks off when I recieve a response from them.
Raymond E Feist has written many, many books in the Magician universe. Plus he wrote a trilogy with Janny Wurts (If I remember correctly) which takes place entirely in the "invaders" world. A Japanese feudal type world. Those books are well worth reading too. I met the author at a book signing many years ago and got one of my books signed by him.
The only Stephen King book that I've read is Salem's Lot, and I kept missing my subway stop on my way home from work because I was so engrossed in the story. But on the whole I don't care for Horror and haven't read anything more by him. I should rectify that someday though since he writes much more then horror, doesn't he?
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