Re: Enterprise: \"Countdown\"
Hyp, if you don't like it don't watch it. Sometimes people just can't like shows. If everyone liked Enterprise, it'd be #1 in America. It isn't. It seems daft to keep forcing yourself to watch something for the sake of it.
CE, in fairness you have now given me an article, yes. However, it's hardly conclusive.
It's years old. What, five years maybe? Not quite sure. It comes at a time when they were was that hoo-ha with Paramount threatening a few sites. They soon stopped that.
So the article is inherently negative. Totally bias. And not a neutral piece about Trek.
Braga's comment of sci-fi fans having "too much time on their fucking hands" amazes me. How can they use a quote in this fashion. When did he say it? To whom did he say it? In what context did he say it?
Look how the sentence can have two totally different meanings with the words around them:
"The sci-fi fans are so dedicated. Maybe they have too much fucking time on their hands," he laughs. "But we appreciate their decdication, as it keeps us on our toes.
Or...
"Sci-fi fans are sad, they never leave us alone. They have too much fucking time on their hands."
As that comment supposedly of his is nowhere else on the net, there's no way to even check he said it. It's one comment, in an old article.
I've worked in Trek fandom for years. Not so much recently, just the odd bit of freelance stuff. But there's always the people "campaigning" for this that and the other. They are small groups, noisy small groups. I had one guy telling me how he was going to get Paramount to replace Berman and Braga with a Star Trek fan committee. Honestly. I mean this is what we're dealing with.
I suppose what I'm trying to say is don't think that there's these hoardes of fans, rallying around, fighting for freedom and will bring Trek back to what it was™. It's mostly a few people with nothing better to do making some noise.
I put your opinion above theirs because you have an opinion, but they're just trying to call attention to themselves. But then I think you should try to be more objective, and really not believe there's massive uprising. There's about 3m viewers of Enterprise in the US alone. An online petition to remove producers or whatever doesn't impress me at all, and I've seen it all before.
B&B will go when they want to go, or Paramount removes them. If massive fan campaigns can't do something positive (i.e. bring back a show, most of the time) they're not going to make studio execs stand up and take notice about other things.
