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Date Posted: 22:41:21 10/15/03 Wed
Author: Michelle
Subject: Hmmmmm!

I found this to be an itneresting ep. We got to know Hoshi a bit better and leaned new "stuff" about The Expanse.

That siad, I've got to say that one big "problem" I have with Enterprise is that, for me, very few of the characters have much "character".

I find that Trip is the only person who comes across as a REAL person. Know what I mean? He's the most, if not the only, three dimensional character.

Being a Vulcan makes it a bit harder to flesh out T'Pol (so to speak) .... and Archer just hasn't come across as much more than a cardboard cut-out to me .... albeit one that looks very nice when in a state of partial undress! LOL!

And I find Mayweather and the security/weapons guy (see -- I dont' even reclal his NAME! LOL!) to be all that compelling.

The doctor is also interesting and seems like a real person.

Maybe it's the quality of the acting. But I'm afraid the writing has to account for a great deal of it. None of the charcters (except for Trip & Phlox) are people I *care* about. Basically, I wouldn't be shocked or all that upset if any of the others bought it during the next anomaly-incident. I just don't have any real emotional investment in them.

I really really WANT to like this show ...... but it's not easy!

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Good GOLLY! You want to OFF everyone on the show except Phlox and Trip? ROTFLOL! Well.. O.k. .. LOL! As long as you don't kill off Trip. I like him. I was entertained by this episode, albiet CONFUSED. LOL! The thing is... I don't know if it's just that I'm stupid, or if the show really IS this confusing! ROTLOL!!! Don't answer that! LOL! Anyway... WHAT IN THE WORLD happened w/ there little space ship? And then they .. what? SHOT it out of the SKY? errr.. SPACE? And then it HAPPENS to fall straight back down at their FEET? What the heck? -- I don't know. Like I said, I was entertained but... LOL! I think they took a lot of "license" w/ this ep.Luoodles wavign to the Michster and hope hope HOPING my pooter is now fixed. GACK!, 23:06:22 10/15/03 Wed

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[> I know what you mean Michelle. There is very little character developement and interaction between the characters. Though I disagree a little about T'Pol. One can see that she's looking for a place to fit in. see inside -- talon, 22:58:41 10/17/03 Fri

Even though she is a very discipline person, she seems to feel that there is more to life than what she had on Vulcan.

Back to season one when she had the conversation with Tucker about returning home to get married, Tucker told her she could be whoever she wanted to be as long as she was on the enterprise. That she didn't have to fit into anyone else's idea of who or what she should be.

I think it's one of the reasons she likes being around Tucker. They both challenge each other's perception of the other's race.

She likes the fact that Tucker challenges her to be more than she is. That there is no limit to who she can be.

One of the reason I think she likes Tucker so much is his willingness to express himself and his emotions. Going back to the episode where they meet up with the renegade Vulcan ship. She allows the mmind meld to further investigate feeling emotions with (Tolaris?).

I think tptb have shown she likes to feel emotions. It's why she was willing to strip in front of Tucker to have a back rub from him.

It's why she challenged him accept her help. It's why she continue to insist he come for more neuropressure treatments.

She also likes being with him. Part of it may be because she's tired of being alone. She probably figures Tucker is lonely too, particularily after the death of his sister.

When Tucker tells her about the whispering from the crew and Malcolm about them seeing each other in her quarters, she dismisses it. It's none of their business to be concern with their senior officer lives.

What's interesting to me is when they ended last season T'Pol tells the Captain she wanted to stay because he needed her, but in reality the truth was she had grown use to the freedoms to be herself and make her own choices for herself.

She didn't want to go back to Vulcan to a life she didn't want to live anymore. But more importantly I believe she didn't want to be away from Tucker who she grown to be fond of.

She's a woman who has come of age and desires the touch of a man in her life. She also wants the sensual desire associated with being in contact with a man.

She is growing emotionally and becoming more human.

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[> I think you just need to give the charcters a little time to develop more. I agree they all seem boring except Trip and T'pol but tptb seem to be focusing more on them right now. -- Computer Geek!, 01:10:52 10/21/03 Tue

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[> I like the doggy! His people have been negotiating for a bigger part. -- PB, 14:02:58 10/23/03 Thu

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