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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [qb]Or, I suppose you could all collectively tell me to fuck off...er...something like that... :cool: -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/qb][/QUOTE]Fuck off, you monkey (mighty, might I add, but still a monkey). ;) Since the original topic seems to be more or less solved,... TNG-twoparters (and two-parters in general for Trek) all lack the same thing: strength. You expect a two-parter to have a stronger story, something heavier than the average episode. Hence the additional 45 minutes. Sadly, the writers usually don't notice this and stretch an episode that could have worked as a standalone too to 90 minutes. The 45 minutes of filler material are usually what makes them "boring". Times Arrow: the Guinan/Mark Twian-subplot was a waste of time. It had nothing to do with the story at all; Reunion: The T'Pau-plot may have been nice, but in the end they seemed to forget what it was all about - those pirates, the deflector, the Trieste, three ships to invade a planet and so on - you could have done it without stretching that part of the story; Voyager's Workforce; and you can find other examples. On the other hand, there are several stories which would have made excellent two-parters; VOY's Dragon's Teeth come to my mind first. Obviously the Trek writers seem to have a problem with the right feeling for those two-partes (interestingly they didn't pull the mid-season two parter on Enterprise yet for two years in a row - OTOH Voyager's final season had 3 two-part-episodes, even 4 if you count Unimatrix Zero). Let's talk about the reasons critics just see the TNG-movies as "pumped-up TV-episodes". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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