Tell me you've never watched TOS with out telling me you've never watched TOS.
It's not a well regarded episode. One of the reasons is it's ham fisted and poorly constructed writing.
I watched this the other night, again. It is everything you’ve said yet still somehow wildly entertaining.
It has Frank Gorshin.
I grew up on it. I don't know what you are talking about.
The original isn’t seen as being as nuanced as its various offspring.
I suppose people can watch the same show and come to wildly different conclusions.
So did I, literally. I was seven when the show debuted. Subtle was not in it's lexicon. "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" is about a subtle as a brick to the head. TOS was very message oriented and it didn't hold back in letting the viewer know what that message was.
I feel like people call Star Trek "nuanced" or "subtle" or "thoughtful" because those have become markers of intrinsic quality, and so if something's good it must be all those things.
It is a bit funny when you actually sit down to watch it though and all the "message" episodes are on My Little Pony levels of moral complexity. I love the idea of an actual neo-Nazi watching "Patterns of Force" and being blown away by the THOUGHT PROVOKING NUANCE and going "Jesus, I've never thought about it like that before, maybe Nazism is bad".
It is a bit funny when you actually sit down to watch it though and all the "message" episodes are on My Little Pony levels of moral complexity. I love the idea of an actual neo-Nazi watching "Patterns of Force" and being blown away by the THOUGHT PROVOKING NUANCE and going "Jesus, I've never thought about it like that before, maybe Nazism is bad".
"No fun allowed!!" - Supreme Leader, Lord Campe.
The “nickname” wasn’t remotely fun.
Internet bad attitudes are funny.
people in 1987 probably thought 24th century was a mistake
You have no idea.
Shatner & Nimoy certainly did.
Oh I love fun. I had a lot of fun tonight teaching 6 and 7 year olds how to field baseball. Then I took my son to dinner as a treat for doing well. Your posts are far from fun. They’re downright tedious. And your jokes are worse.
And don’t deify me. You do that for Lord Terry. (Hallowed be his name.)
Blessed be his coming and going
I doubt any American viewer was scratching their heads in the sixties because ‘Yangs’ and ‘Kohms’ was too subtle for them.
Mostly the going.
