She didn't recognize him because he's all her fantasies combined. Or given the way she dismissed his advances as a pick-up line (and a bad one), the creature might have picked her less than ideal man by mistake.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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That's something I wondered about in that episode: to everyone else, the vampire appeared exactly as someone. But, to Uhura, he says that she was thinking of someone like him.
I wondered why it couldn't change into her exact ideal man.
I wondered why it couldn't change into her exact ideal man.
At the end of the The Thing, only two characters remain alive: Kurt Russell's MacReady, and Keith David's Childs. They have a short conversation and the movie is over -- but is one of them an alien? Is the Earth still in danger? It's supposedly ambiguous, but if you watch the scene closely -- every time MacReady speaks, billows and billows of steam-breath gush from his mouth with every word. When Childs speaks, absolutely nothing. No steam. They are sitting two feet apart. A clear indicator that Childs is the Thing. It's genius.
Wow, thank god Macready didn't notice that. He came off as kind of dumb.
Maybe because aside from Green and McCoy, this was the only male form it took.
Keep in mind that the Swahili man was not a real person, just someone like she was thinking of. Maybe it finds female minds (or Uhura's) harder to read.
Keep in mind that the Swahili man was not a real person, just someone like she was thinking of. Maybe it finds female minds (or Uhura's) harder to read.
It was never said in the episode, but I always goth the idea that the salt vampire was a female, or at least the equivalent from their species. That may be why it couldn't cater to Uhura the way it did to McCoy, Crater, Darnell, etc.
It looks like Uhura was nearly sexually a salted...
Uhura was a cracker!
JB
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Rewatching "Balance of Terror", and suddenly noticed that Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, and Stiles were all in the conference room - and when Kirk said "Kirk to Bridge", Uhura answered. Never realized it before, and they didn't show it, but it seems logical to extrapolate that:
Lt. Uhura was in the Captain's chair!
Lt. Uhura was in the Captain's chair!
Yeah, just because they never showed it, doesn't mean it never happened. It's just too bad that when they did show it, in The Lorelei Signal, it was animated and Nichelle Nichols didn't get to do it herself.
I figure that every officer that works on the bridge has been trained in the basics of ship command and operations. If Lt. Leslie can take the center seat, Uhura certainly can.
She's always at Comm. You mean, "Conn".
Yep. Typo.
No problem at all.
Just like when you may meet someone far from home that's from a nearby town and are happy to have a small part of home to share with someone.
Oh, but it's all about race, forget what I just said.
At the end of the The Thing, only two characters remain alive: Kurt Russell's MacReady, and Keith David's Childs. They have a short conversation and the movie is over -- but is one of them an alien? Is the Earth still in danger? It's supposedly ambiguous, but if you watch the scene closely -- every time MacReady speaks, billows and billows of steam-breath gush from his mouth with every word. When Childs speaks, absolutely nothing. No steam. They are sitting two feet apart. A clear indicator that Childs is the Thing. It's genius.
Wow, thank you. I've only seen the whole thing through once, I will watch that again.
The conn of the Connie.
I can't help but notice that on some of the Blu-ray episodes, the mono soundtrack is missing several sound effects. That's bloody annoying! Not only that, but two of them replace the original theme music with the remastered one. I suspect they're downmixes or something.
By the 22nd century, you may need a prescription to get salt.
Maybe it's a bruise/dirt? When was the first half filmed in comparison to the second?
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