Round 37, Hour 6

[welfycat.livejournal.com]

Oh fic-rushers!!! It sounds like there is wonderful editing and writing and procrastinating going on in the world of fic-rush. I myself am procrastinating by watching old Star Trek Next Generation episodes. Isn't it amazing to return to something you haven't seen or read in more than a decade and relearn how much you love it!

Hope you're all doing well, let us know!

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[isdon-isgood9.livejournal.com]

I have opened fic in a word document and turned on Tabatha Takes Over :D Writing will be done this hour!!

On a side note, I just recently started watching Star Trek Next Generation. I'm not sure how I feel about it though. I'm hoping it turns out to be good :D Tell me it does cause I've seen Voyager, Enterprise, and some of Deep Space Nine and I loved those but I'm not sure how I feel about it and that usually turns me off a show.

[welfycat.livejournal.com]

Yay for writing.

I actually watched Next Generation as a fairly young child, so that might influence my feelings on it. As I'm watching eps of it now, I think parts are a little overacted, but overall it's a pretty solid show. I think by season 3 they really get into the swing of it. Patrick Stewart is incredible though, he has such presence. And Michael Dorn and Levar Burton. There are moments that are just perfect.

I love Voyager and Deep Space Nine. DS9 took me watching the whole series in order to really love it, because they do such long plot arcs, but I love it so much.

[isdon-isgood9.livejournal.com]

I feel that way about Stargate. No matter what they could have done I'd still love it simply because I watched it from such a young age.

Ok well I will defiantly stick it out a little longer. Hopefully my feelings will change :D

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

The first couple seasons of The Next Generation aren't as good as the rest of the show, I'm told. They reputedly get a lot better with the S2/S3 hiatus, which featured a famously huge hiatus cliffhanger. You might try skipping to there if you're close to giving up on the show.

Those first couple seasons, though... well! I link this not because I wrote it, but because people told me it was helping them get through those seasons: Past Lives and Propaganda (http://archiveofourown.org/works/302201). (self-pimpage warning) It's a DS9 fic, Kira+Jadzia mostly, with minor references to a late-third-season ep of DS9 but shouldn't be spoilery. 775 words.

[lolmac]

S1 of TNG is notoriously bad -- it finally began to mesh in S2, about the time Riker grew his beard. (This is the origin of the Growing the Beard trope on tvtropes!) By S3, it was hitting its glory.

Those growing pains are part of what made the later shows good. Hang in there!

BTW, Wil Wheaton did a set of hilarious "reviews" of some of the worst of the S1 episodes. (Years later, of course, after he'd become a really good writer himself.) The reviews are much better than the episodes were!