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Intriguing episode
By Solarium66

This week: No screaming T'Pol. No semi-nude T'Pol. And finally the long-overdue focus on Hoshi Sato. :)

re: the talk about ST:ENT borrowing from "Star Wars." Please give it a rest. If the spheres were pyramids, we'd be hearing complaints that B&B were ripping off "Stargate SG-1."

Those spheres are NOT akin to the "Star Wars" Death Star. Please.

I actually like the concept of the fifty-plus spheres creating the spacial anomaly havoc within the Expanse, plus T'Pol's new discoveries about them. (She's the science officer; she came through BIG time.) It's part of the story arc -- and the production team is staying focused on the different pieces of the Xindi puzzle (including the spheres) as the storyline develops.

Admittedly, I wasn't keen on the Beauty and the Beast concept of "Exile." I did find myself thinking "TOS!" when we saw the mountainside castle. Both the TOS episodes "Squire of Gothos" (with Trelane) and "Catspaw" (with Sylvia and Korob) came to mind when I saw those exteriors. Intentional or not, seeing Reed, Archer and Hoshi enter was deja vu of Kirk, Spock and McCoy (in a fashion). That's just my happy memory for this otherwise bland episode. I wasn't too happy with much of it. The story was too predictable and plodding, save the brief excitement of Archer and Trip "shooting down" their shuttlepod. It was a cool special effect sequence and a nifty idea... but the actors' reactions were poorly directed/written. It soured a potentially unique scene, imho.

In closing, I do think the set designers did an awesome job pulling together the castle interiors, though -- major kudos to them for their hard work. It was very, very well-done (esp. with the short time they had to construct it).

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