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khaosworksNo, it's not a musical. That would be Moulin Rouge Planet, silly.
Initial thoughts:
Well now, that didn't suck as much as I feared. Maybe my own paranoia is overtaking me. This actually felt more like a TOS episode. Archer taking off into the jungle after his mystery woman alone was stupid, but felt like something Kirk might do (and he justified later by saying he was drawn anyway).
For once I approve of Archer's solution to the problem - it was actually subtle, and thought of the long-term ramifications (although I wonder how long it'll be before they figure out how to counteract the masking agent). How the wraiths could make use of the masking agent is also never quite explained - did they analyze Phlox's sample and figure out how to synthesize it using their own mutating cellular structure? It'd have been nice to at least say how.
A few other things:
Anybody else start screaming, once the wraiths' natures were revealed, "She's a salt sucking alien!"?
Good: T'Pol snarking that Archer wouldn't be so interested in going after the woman alone if the vision had been of a half-naked man. Hee. Score.
Bad: Somehow, that bit about the Yates poem didn't quite come off as convincing. I would also have loved to have Trip identify the poem from Archer's one line, just to show that he ain't all that ign'rant.
Good: Malcolm showing up Captain Quantum by having more merit badges. Go Malcolm!
Bad: The entire teaser. Pointless, pointless, pointless and not even funny.
Good: Archer subtly getting the Eksa drunk and grilling them on the wraiths. Bad: Bakula playing Archer so broadly - I mean, come on. We get it already. Archer's being sneaky. The way Bakula was saying the lines he was practically telegraphing that he was being sneaky to the Eksa, which is silly.
Bad: Little to no Hoshi. Mayweather? Who dat?
Overall - not too bad. Nothing spectacular - a bit formulaic, but at least they didn't act like morons. Mostly.
Initial thoughts:
Well now, that didn't suck as much as I feared. Maybe my own paranoia is overtaking me. This actually felt more like a TOS episode. Archer taking off into the jungle after his mystery woman alone was stupid, but felt like something Kirk might do (and he justified later by saying he was drawn anyway).
For once I approve of Archer's solution to the problem - it was actually subtle, and thought of the long-term ramifications (although I wonder how long it'll be before they figure out how to counteract the masking agent). How the wraiths could make use of the masking agent is also never quite explained - did they analyze Phlox's sample and figure out how to synthesize it using their own mutating cellular structure? It'd have been nice to at least say how.
A few other things:
Anybody else start screaming, once the wraiths' natures were revealed, "She's a salt sucking alien!"?
Good: T'Pol snarking that Archer wouldn't be so interested in going after the woman alone if the vision had been of a half-naked man. Hee. Score.
Bad: Somehow, that bit about the Yates poem didn't quite come off as convincing. I would also have loved to have Trip identify the poem from Archer's one line, just to show that he ain't all that ign'rant.
Good: Malcolm showing up Captain Quantum by having more merit badges. Go Malcolm!
Bad: The entire teaser. Pointless, pointless, pointless and not even funny.
Good: Archer subtly getting the Eksa drunk and grilling them on the wraiths. Bad: Bakula playing Archer so broadly - I mean, come on. We get it already. Archer's being sneaky. The way Bakula was saying the lines he was practically telegraphing that he was being sneaky to the Eksa, which is silly.
Bad: Little to no Hoshi. Mayweather? Who dat?
Overall - not too bad. Nothing spectacular - a bit formulaic, but at least they didn't act like morons. Mostly.
