The TNG season 1 blu ray , gorgeous but still boring
Posted: 2012-07-30 03:28am
Point of full disclosure,
I was never a fan of TNG. liked some of the middle and later season episodes but I could never get past the kindergarten of the fleet battleship, Navajo samurai space Viking biker Klingons with bad hillbilly fright teeth, the left of Jimmy Carter vibe and storylines, a shrink not only on the bridge but sitting next to the captain, and the overall Hilton garden inn look of the new E covered in more port holes than spaceframe
However I was excited to revisit the show and give it a second chance all these years later
The verdict is that the print is stunning . Some episodes the image looks soft like in the big goodbye and déjà q but that may owe as much to how brightly they were originally shot.
At its best the print looks as stunningly rich as the remastered godfather which I still hold as the high water mark in terms of restoring older film to he format.
The tweaked effects like the enhanced planets are terrific and the stock ship effects shots now look movie quality. Though in most shots the cleaner brighter shots make those way too many portholes look so bright and white that anyone in those rooms must surely have severe retina damage
Many of the effects shot for specific episodes also look super clean but as none of the effects were reshot there are endless laughable scaling issues like the fact that picard's old ship is apparently as big as the D. Though the models themselves look super detailed
The sets look horribly dated but with new levels of detail like the fact that picard's chair apparently has wood inlay rails like Kirks old chair. On the broadcasts you could never see that in the new he you can see the lacquered wood grain
Engineering looks laughable, sometimes too much d'être detail is unkind to already chinsey looking sets but the colors are rich and vibrant. The simple neon tubes inside the glittered opaque plastic looks more likebsimple blue neon tubes in styrofoam platic tube than ever. Why they didn't reuse and redress the still best ever looking engineering set from TMP I will never know
In the reused hall sets (from TMP) the brushed metal wall panels show dents, dings and scratches from ten years of use in the films. Again it was cool to be able to zero in on such clear detail
Thus far I am quite pleased, though other than the Stewart scenes and Q episodes I find the premise boring and overuse of technobabble annoying, it is certainly worth the investment to pass the time and see such an important scifi show (regardless of my personal tastes) in 2012 cinema had quality
Can't wait until they do DS9 or hope of all hopes (prob never happen though) B5 or the TMP directors edition in blu
I was never a fan of TNG. liked some of the middle and later season episodes but I could never get past the kindergarten of the fleet battleship, Navajo samurai space Viking biker Klingons with bad hillbilly fright teeth, the left of Jimmy Carter vibe and storylines, a shrink not only on the bridge but sitting next to the captain, and the overall Hilton garden inn look of the new E covered in more port holes than spaceframe
However I was excited to revisit the show and give it a second chance all these years later
The verdict is that the print is stunning . Some episodes the image looks soft like in the big goodbye and déjà q but that may owe as much to how brightly they were originally shot.
At its best the print looks as stunningly rich as the remastered godfather which I still hold as the high water mark in terms of restoring older film to he format.
The tweaked effects like the enhanced planets are terrific and the stock ship effects shots now look movie quality. Though in most shots the cleaner brighter shots make those way too many portholes look so bright and white that anyone in those rooms must surely have severe retina damage
Many of the effects shot for specific episodes also look super clean but as none of the effects were reshot there are endless laughable scaling issues like the fact that picard's old ship is apparently as big as the D. Though the models themselves look super detailed
The sets look horribly dated but with new levels of detail like the fact that picard's chair apparently has wood inlay rails like Kirks old chair. On the broadcasts you could never see that in the new he you can see the lacquered wood grain
Engineering looks laughable, sometimes too much d'être detail is unkind to already chinsey looking sets but the colors are rich and vibrant. The simple neon tubes inside the glittered opaque plastic looks more likebsimple blue neon tubes in styrofoam platic tube than ever. Why they didn't reuse and redress the still best ever looking engineering set from TMP I will never know
In the reused hall sets (from TMP) the brushed metal wall panels show dents, dings and scratches from ten years of use in the films. Again it was cool to be able to zero in on such clear detail
Thus far I am quite pleased, though other than the Stewart scenes and Q episodes I find the premise boring and overuse of technobabble annoying, it is certainly worth the investment to pass the time and see such an important scifi show (regardless of my personal tastes) in 2012 cinema had quality
Can't wait until they do DS9 or hope of all hopes (prob never happen though) B5 or the TMP directors edition in blu