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Finished the season. I’ll dwell on it before I confirm, but I think this might be my favourite season of the show to date. The episode I liked the least (Bête Noire) was still an above average on my list of favourites, while Callister 2 and Plaything both rank highly, and Common People, Hotel Reverie, and Eulogy each rank among my favourite episodes overall. They knocked 16 Million Merits out of third for me, and pushed it down to 6th. My Top 5 also contains White Christmas and San Junipero. While I’d say Plaything and Callister 2 probably rank on my list in the region of Nosedive, The Entire History of You, and Metalhead.
I’m still considering how I place Beyond the Sea because I was shredded by that episode, but mostly because of the ending. It was kind of a similar shredding to the Deep Space 9 episode Death of Angels, or TNG’s Offpring - except more extreme than those. This one could make a top 5 into a top 6. Hang the DJ was another one I liked, and I really liked the concept to it as well.
But more or less, right now I’m feeling season 7 probably gave me half my favourite episodes. I’ll reconsider it I’m a few months to see if I still feel the same.
But I think the seventh season is the first season since the… first season where I didn’t feel there was at least one episode that was “eh? Not really for me.” But that said, there aren’t any episodes I dislike, I more or less like them all. Although Men Against Fire (which is the same story as Star Trek Voyager: Nemesis) and The Waldo moment from season 2 - which unfortunately, was the most prophetical episode of the show’s history.
PS: I won’t spoil it, but there is a well known video game designer who was parodied in the episode Plaything (acted by Will Poulter). I think anyone PC gaming in the 1990s will get who it is, perhaps early 2000s. Can you guess who it is?
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