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MadcapHaskap t1_jddz31q wrote

Reply to comment by IntotheWIldcat in Comparison of Star Trek Series by IMBD Ratings [OC] by insaneplane

It's probably Shades of Grey, because modern audiences.

Even though that's not even the worst episode to bookend season 2.

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IntotheWIldcat t1_jde58e2 wrote

You're correct! Somehow Sub Rosa still has a 4.8 rating which I find extremely generous.

Also, lol. I can't believe season 2 started with Troi getting surprise pregnant from an alien and ended with a clip show.

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MadcapHaskap t1_jde9owt wrote

I think it depends on how much you think Sub-Rosa is aware it's cheesy camp and how much you like that sort of thing.

Whereas even in '87 a stranger impregnating you in your sleep is very rape-y even with the sci-fi premise; then raising the rapist, Troi essentially abandoned to her new motherhood, Riker irritated he isn't the father/rapist ... the "It's a badly adapted phase II script" really shows.

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paulc899 t1_jdef1r2 wrote

There was a writers strike then which was why a clip show occurred.

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mikevago t1_jdehsl9 wrote

They were also hoping for an influx of new viewers (I forget what the cause for optimism was), and they wanted to catch people up on the series. And a clip show was the only way to do that in the pre-streaming era! (I think this was just barely in the VCR era, but you had to be a pretty hardcore fan to tape every episode)

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ArvinaDystopia t1_jdhaztu wrote

Why would "non-modern audiences" be more generous with Shades of Grey? I'm 40 (is that non-modern?), and I do consider it pointless and pretty stupid.

That said, the worst is The Game.

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MadcapHaskap t1_jdhft38 wrote

In the pre-youtube/streaming/filesharing era, people were a lot more forgiving of clip shows. Not that they were ever good, but now they get rated as the absolute worst, rather than being average-bad, which is contextually more realistic.

Now you can watch "Ten times Deanna uses her telepathy to deduce the obvious" on youtube, so a clip show is far more redundant than just being a spruced up rerun.

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ArvinaDystopia t1_jdilpoc wrote

I hated them back in the day, too. You only get one episode per week, you look forward to it all week, and it's a clip show? That was very disappointing, back then.

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