Interestingly, back in 2006 I was the friend. I suppose I had been living under a rock during the 90s, or at least really occupied with Star Trek. I saw Fight the Future and then watched "Triangle" on TV. The movie was murky and "Triangle" was impenetrable and so I gave up further efforts to get into the fandom.
Flash forward to 2006, when my very good friend had a lot of the tapes. She showed me a few of them. The only one I can remember now was "The Rain King," whose tone I found baffling. I didn't mind watching them, really, but I didn't get hooked until an afternoon that we spent with another friend who had the DVD set. She showed me part one of "Dreamland" and I loved it so much that I had to borrow the DVDs in order to see the second half and, indeed, the rest of the season.
I do think that season six is a particularly good entry point because, after the movie, it doesn't necessarily assume an encyclopedic knowledge of the preceding canon. On the other hand, neither I nor anyone else could have necessarily predicted that Dreamland would be the one for me. So I suppose I'm a bit of an agnostic on the question. Sometimes I think the only thing to do is throw some episodes out there and see what sticks.
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Flash forward to 2006, when my very good friend had a lot of the tapes. She showed me a few of them. The only one I can remember now was "The Rain King," whose tone I found baffling. I didn't mind watching them, really, but I didn't get hooked until an afternoon that we spent with another friend who had the DVD set. She showed me part one of "Dreamland" and I loved it so much that I had to borrow the DVDs in order to see the second half and, indeed, the rest of the season.
I do think that season six is a particularly good entry point because, after the movie, it doesn't necessarily assume an encyclopedic knowledge of the preceding canon. On the other hand, neither I nor anyone else could have necessarily predicted that Dreamland would be the one for me. So I suppose I'm a bit of an agnostic on the question. Sometimes I think the only thing to do is throw some episodes out there and see what sticks.