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REVIEW: 'Impulse' - ENT's best attempt at radical change (SPOILERS) | Report this post to moderator
By: Logic Incarnate (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 23:34:18 on Oct 07, 2003 | Edit History (3)


The Good:

This episode was different, these new guys Jonathan Fernandez and Terry Matalas actually have an imagination unlike most of the ENT team, and have managed to incorperate elements of classic science fiction horror into this episode without making it feel like a lame copycat job as with most of ENT's previous attempts to emulate sucess. The GFX, set designs, lighting, music, etc were all expensive, not that anyone would expect less from a modern sci-fi show, and director David Livingston made nice work out of it, with radical camera angles, decent use of lighting, GFX and sets. Jolene Blalock's acting was probably the best in the episode, the scene where Reed configures the circuits badly was perticularly impressive. Hopefully the potent emotions that she expressed will tell B&B that a certain paranoid Star Empire of violent pointy eared cousins is a worthy adversary after all. The B-story was also fine, and didnt hinder the main plot or jarringly change the pace like in some eps.

The Bad:

Although its great that the ENT team are finnally experimenting, or actually being allowed to do scripts that arnt bland by B&B, this episode was still a rip designed to grab ratings and emulate gimmicky sci-fi horror, it didnt carry the depth that it could have, maybe a hard choice for Archer would have done him some good, but destroying the Vulcan vessel wasnt really played on like it could have been. The zombie Vulcans could have been made more horrific through drama alone, adding tragedy of some sort rather than generic scenes of copycat horror. Some of these scenes were out of place and unnessecary, sometimes silence is much louder than insane Vulcans, and the final generic nightmare scene was unnessecary, that would have actually been a good time to start whatever T'Pol romance they are probably planning - she could have claimed she was under the effects of the trellium still. As for the main theme, it is a joke - you watch T'Pol scream her head off in a surreal insanity scene then it cuts to this bullshit happy-happy-joy-joy riff, I actually rather have the old mix back...

Conclusion:

Certainly better than 'The Xindi' and 'Extinction' put together, and better than 'Rajin', but I think 'Anomaly' was a better executed episode that didnt come off too strong. Despite being gimmicky but hollow, 'Impulse' is still well worth the watch, although it didnt meet other series attempts at horror, like the Sg-1 ep with the anti-Goa'uld transparent slugs or anything, but I give it...

7/10

The season so far has a higher number of good episodes, but still isnt as satisfying as any season of TOS, TNG or DS9, which means there is still a lot of room for improvement, and filler eps like 'Extinction' arnt welcome.



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