I was excited to watch this episode after hearing the hype. I also had to wash out the bad taste of "Assignment: Earth".
Okay, McCoy starts acting crazy. "Killers, you're all killers!" I thought it was going to be something like a triggered memory, he believed he was someone else. Nope. This drug just makes him paranoid.
They beam down to the planet to get him and encounter Roman columns sticking out of the ground. I just rolled with it. This is supposed to give the sense of something weird and otherworldly. I guess. But it turns out that the set director confused "runes" with "ruins" and I'm guessing he went with ancient Earth city ruins.
The "Guardian of Forever" is introduced in such a casual way and shows a TV of Earth's past, which is really a portal. Interesting. I liked that. But I wondered, why show only human past? Why not the past of this particular location, or of Vulcan past?
1930s Earth looked very much like a TV set.
"My friend is obviously...Chinese. And his ears...they got caught in a rice picker." I can imagine a person from the the 60s trying to convince someone else that Spock's alien look is really just his Chinese features, but I found it hard to believe a human from the 23rd century would come up with a like like that. Not just the Chinese thing, but also the rice picker explanation.
Even trying to view this by 60s standards I found it hard to believe in the coincidence that Kirk and Spock would encounter a random woman who just so happens makes a speech that predicts the future of Starfleet and the Federation. It's like, c'mon.
I didn't believe in Kirk's love or feelings for Edit AT ALL. I myself didn't like her. The way she spoke, she was like a caricature.
Bones little moments with Edith had more feeling that between her and Kirk.
After the whole thing was done I felt like, "that was it?"
So far I'm starting to greatly dislike the episodes where they go back to Earth's past just so the producers don't have to come up with any alien worlds or peoples.
The original story by Harlan Ellison and the space drugs and firing squad is definitely interesting, and the giant beings being the actual Guardians would have made the episode so much better. The latter, not the space drug dealing and firing squad.
If they had made the character of Edith Keeler more subtle with her optimism, cast a different actress, developed the romance between her and Kirk better, this could have been a much better episode. I've seen very little of Kirk's romances, but so far the only shipping that seems plausible is between him and Saavik.
Okay, McCoy starts acting crazy. "Killers, you're all killers!" I thought it was going to be something like a triggered memory, he believed he was someone else. Nope. This drug just makes him paranoid.
They beam down to the planet to get him and encounter Roman columns sticking out of the ground. I just rolled with it. This is supposed to give the sense of something weird and otherworldly. I guess. But it turns out that the set director confused "runes" with "ruins" and I'm guessing he went with ancient Earth city ruins.
The "Guardian of Forever" is introduced in such a casual way and shows a TV of Earth's past, which is really a portal. Interesting. I liked that. But I wondered, why show only human past? Why not the past of this particular location, or of Vulcan past?
1930s Earth looked very much like a TV set.
"My friend is obviously...Chinese. And his ears...they got caught in a rice picker." I can imagine a person from the the 60s trying to convince someone else that Spock's alien look is really just his Chinese features, but I found it hard to believe a human from the 23rd century would come up with a like like that. Not just the Chinese thing, but also the rice picker explanation.
Even trying to view this by 60s standards I found it hard to believe in the coincidence that Kirk and Spock would encounter a random woman who just so happens makes a speech that predicts the future of Starfleet and the Federation. It's like, c'mon.
I didn't believe in Kirk's love or feelings for Edit AT ALL. I myself didn't like her. The way she spoke, she was like a caricature.
Bones little moments with Edith had more feeling that between her and Kirk.
After the whole thing was done I felt like, "that was it?"
So far I'm starting to greatly dislike the episodes where they go back to Earth's past just so the producers don't have to come up with any alien worlds or peoples.
The original story by Harlan Ellison and the space drugs and firing squad is definitely interesting, and the giant beings being the actual Guardians would have made the episode so much better. The latter, not the space drug dealing and firing squad.
If they had made the character of Edith Keeler more subtle with her optimism, cast a different actress, developed the romance between her and Kirk better, this could have been a much better episode. I've seen very little of Kirk's romances, but so far the only shipping that seems plausible is between him and Saavik.
Just watch it (link).
