After posting my rant about Voyager the other day I've had a change of heart. Below is an email I wrote to my friend Rebecca...Yes, after posting that I've had a slight change of heart. I think I wrote it after watching a couple of lesser eps in a row. Also I was in a bad mood and Voyager got the brunt. Since then I have been watching each ep since the beginning on Spike TV and looking forward to that time each day. They air two eps in a row. We can't go training for the bike ride until after it ends at 6pm. Neal is a real trooper about it. :) I spent about 2 hours last night and about an hour this morning looking at old posts I found through yahoo groups. It was a brief chronical of all our lives. I even found some old stories and started reading a few.
I remembered how much I loved that character at one time and how much her presence meant to many women. I was trying to think of an equivalent since then but I can't. Maybe, like you said, Buffy but even that is different. I did grow up on Murphy Brown and was extremely influenced by that role. Perhaps Mulgrew is overacting at times but as I've watched again, she has an amazing draw in her softer moments. Like you said, they didn't know what to do with the character. I think at times I wanted to see equal amounts of the captain and the woman behind her, much like they were able to achieve with Murphy Brown.
I've also been thinking about how different I am now as opposed to when I was watching it before. I've grown and I think I've become a stronger person. It's interesting to look back if only to see how far I've come. I like who I am now and maybe didn't so much back then. But through that growth I was able to maintain several of the friendships I gained through the show. That alone should give the show the value it deserves.
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