The parallels to The Wizard of Oz are present but the story, the chemistry, the fun of The Wizard of Oz is absent. The main story line consists of a little girl whose mother is on an away mission and gravely injured and dying, yet her daughter is oblivious to this because Neelix refuses to tell her due to a traumatic experience he had as a child. Neelix is protective and it comes off rather coldly.
The episode is dry, uninspired, and without purpose. How to save it? What if an episode is told through the eyes of a child? That is, a day in the life of what it is like to be a child on a Starship? If you want to have a Wizard of Oz feel to it, have them in a situation where they have to journey through the starship, meeting characters along the way. Perhaps our characters can be perceived as the children might see them. It could have offered a rather jovial and fun light to a rather cold series.
As it seems, Season 5 seems to be marred with excellent story ideas that are never executed properly. Night, a perfect potential episode that would explore our character's darkest thoughts and going through a dark period in their lives, but nope, we get a morality tale of toxic waste. Extreme Risk, one of the best b stories I have seen only to be wasted by a terrible A story. In The Flesh, a non-sensible way of flipping the story to tell it through the eyes of aliens. What could and should have been an excellent episode marred by just how bizarre and impossible it all seemed. Hopefully the season doesn't continue to be marred by the same patterns.
Drone seems to be the only stand out episode this season thus far.
The episode is dry, uninspired, and without purpose. How to save it? What if an episode is told through the eyes of a child? That is, a day in the life of what it is like to be a child on a Starship? If you want to have a Wizard of Oz feel to it, have them in a situation where they have to journey through the starship, meeting characters along the way. Perhaps our characters can be perceived as the children might see them. It could have offered a rather jovial and fun light to a rather cold series.
As it seems, Season 5 seems to be marred with excellent story ideas that are never executed properly. Night, a perfect potential episode that would explore our character's darkest thoughts and going through a dark period in their lives, but nope, we get a morality tale of toxic waste. Extreme Risk, one of the best b stories I have seen only to be wasted by a terrible A story. In The Flesh, a non-sensible way of flipping the story to tell it through the eyes of aliens. What could and should have been an excellent episode marred by just how bizarre and impossible it all seemed. Hopefully the season doesn't continue to be marred by the same patterns.
Drone seems to be the only stand out episode this season thus far.