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![]() I liked this episode. It was engaging. I was hooked the whole way through and wasn't even paying attention to the clock to see how much time was left. Yes, it was a reset button, but you don't start a show in the future without a reset button, so at least it was expected from the beginning. I thought the older age makeup was great. The lines under Bakula's eyes looked very real. Everyone's hair was grayer. Kudos to the makeup dept. Neat special effects too. Watching Enterprise and Earth get blown up was great. Poor crew. Landing on Ceti Alpha 5. If the Xindi don't get them, Ceti Alpha 6 will. Actually, when T'Pol said they were on CA5, I wondered what was currently happening to Khan's sleeper ship. Would the Xindi find them and destroy them? Would they land somewhere and rebuild Earth's population as supermen? Yes, in all, this was a great episode. Definitely a good way to begin sweeps. Next week's looks good too. Already has a TOS feel to it from the preview.[/color ![]()
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![]() I'll have to see it again on Sunday, because I had some interruptions early on and missed a couple of things (Travis getting offed, for one) but I liked pretty much everything I saw. (Pity about the distractions, because TV reception was quite good on Wednesday, as it so often [i ![]() ![]() An outstanding job by Blalock, and Bakula's Archer was nearly as good (his reaction to the destruction of Earth was a standout moment.) FX especially good in the "Earth blows up" scene and the one in whch the bridge is rudely separated from the rest of the ship. I'm still undecided on the scene in Engineering leading up to the destruction of [i ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, though, I was quite pleased with this one. ![]() ![]() |
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![]() It reminded me of "Inner Light." I agree about the reset button, but often the best episodes happen because the writers know that they can kill everyone without consequences. ![]() I was a little wary of that memory thing, too, Kira. Working, short-term, long-term... bleh. I don't remember at what threshold short-term becomes long-term. (Heh, no joke intended.) Speaking as someone with an often impaired memory (if you don't sleep right, the memory gets weird), I can sympathize with Archer's position. Although I REALLY hope I'm not going to wake up one day and suddenly be 12 years older. Didn't like T'Pol's shirt, though. Geh. Lousy cut.[/color ![]() |
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![]() Think of it this way. You hear a song on the radio. After the song is over, its still in your mind. You start singing it in your mind, then it feels like it is stuck in your mind because you sing it over and over again. The more you think about it, the longer it is in your short term memory. When you stop thinking about it, it will either go to long term memory, or you will simply forget it.[/color ![]() |
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![]() There's working memory, short term, and long-term. Working becomes short-term after some point, and then short-term becomes long-term at some point. There's some threshold at which the information is reclassified as short-term etc. Not sure when.[/color ![]() |
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![]() ![]() ![]() That's a good point. Â If the writers are going to use a reset button, they're more likely to take risks with the storytelling and the characters. Â It's a shame they don't do that often without the reset button. As for short-term memory, the definition from my Psych 110 book is "an immediate memory for stimuli that have just been perceived. It is limited in terms of both capacity (7 +/- 2 chunks of information) and duration (less than 20 seconds)." The chapter also has a case study of a guy with a long-term memory disorder who is re-introduced to the same man in the span of a few minutes with no memory of who he is. However, I still maintain that this slip-up is acceptable in light of the fantastic storytelling. :bigsmile:[/color ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() What's would be cool is episode where you can't tell if there's going to be a rreset button at the end. For just about every show I've ever seen that's used this gimmick it's always been blatantly obvious within five minutes (or less) that that is how the episode is going to end. Takes some of the fun out of it really.[/color ![]()
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