Irony

[ellarien]

Today's Voyage episode was the S1 The Village of Guilt, a.k.a. the one with the overgrown octopus. I laughed out loud when Captain Crane said that even if he saw a sea monster he wouldn't believe it, and Nelson solemnly told him that they did exist, but were only six or seven inches long. This was, I suppose, the first episode with aquatic megafauna, but by no means the last.

I'm falling for this show all over again, I really am. I did wonder about the tropical reef fish in a Norwegian fjord, though.

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[ellarien]

I don't think he ever bargained on the sort of loving, obsessive rewatching that modern technology makes possible. I wonder if the VCR/DVD phenomenon has encouraged the recent trend for story arcs instead of standalone episodes?

I started off with one episode a week, then ran into May sweeps, followed by summer travel madness, and stopped for a while, skipped ahead to a couple of favourites in the second set, and then watched the first four of S2 in quick succession. I enjoyed those a lot -- all fun Nelson-centric episodes, and I've never seen them looking so good. Now I'm back on the first set.

I can hardly wait for the second half of S2. Granted, there are some dreadful episodes in there, and Richard Basehart's illness didn't help, but I really want to see The Phantom Strikes and Return of the Phantom in all their uncut glory.