I made up several vulgar euphemisms for that fist pumping that I shouldn't type in this comment.
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Turn The Channel On This TOS Episode…
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I’d watch any episode of TOS.
For the other shows, there’s even episodes I start on Netflix by choice and quit within 10 minutes occasionally.
TOS is something else. It’s detached from everything else by time, culture and technology (in the real world I mean).
There’s a lot of good that came from the 1960s. TOS is in the top layer of that good, along with Bob Dylan, The Twilight Zone, Connery’s Bond and The Fantastic Four.
It’s a classy show. Earnest and genuine. Heartfelt even. They weren’t just making TV. They were trying to change our idea of what TV could be.
Even in the worst episodes, I can find something to love.
For the other shows, there’s even episodes I start on Netflix by choice and quit within 10 minutes occasionally.
TOS is something else. It’s detached from everything else by time, culture and technology (in the real world I mean).
There’s a lot of good that came from the 1960s. TOS is in the top layer of that good, along with Bob Dylan, The Twilight Zone, Connery’s Bond and The Fantastic Four.
It’s a classy show. Earnest and genuine. Heartfelt even. They weren’t just making TV. They were trying to change our idea of what TV could be.
Even in the worst episodes, I can find something to love.
I love all of the episodes and never skip one in a re-watch, but I find And The Children Shall Lead and The Alternative Factor really boring and difficult to get through. Definitely the weaker links of the show.
"Spock's Brain" makes me itchy. "Savage Curtain."
I've said it before and I'll say it again-PLATO'S STEPCHILDREN!!!!!
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No doing the diddly before 10 pm.
I don't wish to be unpleasant, but I am determined to have you like it, Dr. Johnny.
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Not while Vulcan continues to have no moon!!!
JB
JB
No doing the diddly before 1o pm.
I don't wish to be unpleasant, but I am determined to have you like it, Dr. Johnny.
Plato's is okay, if it was on MeTV after Batman, I'd leave it on, but It's not one that I consider "great". It's a low middlin' episode, it's not bad enough to change the chanel on however.
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It does, in fact, have its good points like Michael Dunn's portrayal of Alexander and Spock's dealing with his anger after the humiliation scenes.
The post-humiliation Spock scene is worth the price of admission alone. I know Nimoy was disappointed with some S3 episodes, but I feel like he upped his own game to compensate. The bone-dry S3 Spock is by far my favorite version of Spock
I posted a review of ATCSL by Steve Shives elsewhere in the TOS subforum. Pretty spot on IMO.
How they all don't have incapacitating PTSD escapes me. Zapped by Greek demigods and crew turned energy beings, turned into styrofoam, salamanders and Irish setters, seeing crew without faces, mentally diddled by errant space robots and Socrates's Brats, rock beings melting your buddy with acid and more. I don't care how good your space counselor is, you're gonna be traumatized by space.
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In space no one ever gives you cream
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They're saving it for the synthetics.
The decimation was inevitable when they gave the movies to Jar Jar Abrams...Beastie Boys in a Trek movie? that wasn't just jumping the shark, that was a quantum leap over the shark
Personally, I enjoyed the Abram’s films. Though I understand everyone has their own preferences.
The inevitable "Appeal to modern audiences" damned the Jar Jar movies for me and I think that producers/directors constantly under estimate younger generations. Optimistically speaking I think younger generations appreciate well crafted stories and great character development as much as other generations....a good indicator of this is "Top Gun: Maverick" which had multi-generational appeal, despite the fact that it was based on characters created 35 years ago.
writers/producers/directors seem to automatically think that they have to simply put more action, and more humor, and make characters relatable to their age group to appeal to certain demographics, but good writing and character development transcends all of that...
writers/producers/directors seem to automatically think that they have to simply put more action, and more humor, and make characters relatable to their age group to appeal to certain demographics, but good writing and character development transcends all of that...
I'm pleased to see others calling him Jar-Jar.
Well, that's nice. I didn't much care for the Abrams movies either, but there's room for everything. People like different things.
agreed, but there are places where knowing the core material is essential, especially in ST which has never been about action first, but stories and characters, with action sprinkled in judiciously, in context, and not gratuitously....
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