Book Fair and Voyager
Feb. 17th, 2009 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sesanaThe Book Fair went well, thankfully. We made nearly $500 in book profit, and I spent about $200 right away. What's left will carry over until I do decide to use it, at a warehouse sale or a future book fair. I think we did really well for a first book fair, and I'm certainly planning on doing more next year.
I also finally finished watching Voyager. I'm so glad to be done with Voyager. Of the three Treks that I've seen all the episodes of, it is by far my least favorite. It almost isn't fair to compare it to DS9, to be perfectly honest. It's like the lazy Trek writers that had trouble with character development and simple continuity were all sent to Voyager. Which is really sad, because the premise and the characters had a lot of promise. But they chickened out on the "ship divided" theme almost immediately. In fact, they chickened out on pretty much any remotely difficult plot development across the entire history of Voyager. Through the last three seasons or so, the most frustrating part was that the writers seemed to forget about any character other than Seven and the Doctor. I would've given up the show in disgust right then and there, except that I like Seven and the Doctor. But I liked other people on the crew as well, so it got pretty frustrating waiting for the one episode a season that would have some character development (which would later be totally ignored as though it had never happened) for, say, Harry. And then there was the bizarre sequence of events where the writers apparently forgot that they hadn't actually killed Naomi's mother, so they set up Seven as a sort of substitute maternal figure (I loved their relationship, btw, and I loved Naomi) and then they apparently remembered that Naomi's mother was actually still alive, so they cut off the relationship with Seven and filled Naomi's role in Seven's life with a whole group of Borg children. Let's not even talk about the insane relationship they set up in the last episode, with no real development in that episode or any other, between Chakotay and Seven. After seven freaking years of building up and teasing about Janeway/Chakotay, it almost felt like a "fuck you" to long-term fans. If I hadn't already stopped watching Voyager in disgust a season or so back, I would've been furious at the last episode. (And btw, didn't they use essentially the same plotline in a Harry-centric episode a few seasons back?)
I've probably ranted long enough. In short, Voyager was promising, but often intensely disappointing. The characters were mishandled, when they were really handled at all. The last episode was basically just a rewritten version of an earlier, and better, episode. And Chakotay/Seven was every bit as much of a snub of long-term fans as CC killing off the Lone Gunmen in the last season of X-Files or the entirety of Enterprise turning out to be one of Riker's holodeck fantasies. (I was never so happy that I never watched Enterprise as I was when I found out how they screwed over the fans in that episode.) I'll be sticking to TNG and DS9 from now on.
I also finally finished watching Voyager. I'm so glad to be done with Voyager. Of the three Treks that I've seen all the episodes of, it is by far my least favorite. It almost isn't fair to compare it to DS9, to be perfectly honest. It's like the lazy Trek writers that had trouble with character development and simple continuity were all sent to Voyager. Which is really sad, because the premise and the characters had a lot of promise. But they chickened out on the "ship divided" theme almost immediately. In fact, they chickened out on pretty much any remotely difficult plot development across the entire history of Voyager. Through the last three seasons or so, the most frustrating part was that the writers seemed to forget about any character other than Seven and the Doctor. I would've given up the show in disgust right then and there, except that I like Seven and the Doctor. But I liked other people on the crew as well, so it got pretty frustrating waiting for the one episode a season that would have some character development (which would later be totally ignored as though it had never happened) for, say, Harry. And then there was the bizarre sequence of events where the writers apparently forgot that they hadn't actually killed Naomi's mother, so they set up Seven as a sort of substitute maternal figure (I loved their relationship, btw, and I loved Naomi) and then they apparently remembered that Naomi's mother was actually still alive, so they cut off the relationship with Seven and filled Naomi's role in Seven's life with a whole group of Borg children. Let's not even talk about the insane relationship they set up in the last episode, with no real development in that episode or any other, between Chakotay and Seven. After seven freaking years of building up and teasing about Janeway/Chakotay, it almost felt like a "fuck you" to long-term fans. If I hadn't already stopped watching Voyager in disgust a season or so back, I would've been furious at the last episode. (And btw, didn't they use essentially the same plotline in a Harry-centric episode a few seasons back?)
I've probably ranted long enough. In short, Voyager was promising, but often intensely disappointing. The characters were mishandled, when they were really handled at all. The last episode was basically just a rewritten version of an earlier, and better, episode. And Chakotay/Seven was every bit as much of a snub of long-term fans as CC killing off the Lone Gunmen in the last season of X-Files or the entirety of Enterprise turning out to be one of Riker's holodeck fantasies. (I was never so happy that I never watched Enterprise as I was when I found out how they screwed over the fans in that episode.) I'll be sticking to TNG and DS9 from now on.
