Jack the Ripper could have been more evil

[tomalak301]

Hello all,

I don't frequent this forum very much, even though I probably should. Anyway, I saw my first Star Trek episode in a long time which was Wolf in the Fold. I'm going to start watching episodes I've only seen once getting the DVD release and this was one of them. I liked it, but man did the whole Jack the Ripper thing get really corny. It's a great murder mystery piece, but I wonder what if they had made JTR a lot more darker and serious. It probably would have been one of Season 2's best episodes. Now, it was just pretty good with a very questionable ending.

What are your thoughts on this one.

 

[JNG]

In an episode where the baddie feeds on terror, I guess we should have expected things to get...dramatic.

 

[Forbin]

They couldn't really go too far in a 1967 (8?) TV episode. Didn't want to scare the kids.

 

[kissthestar]

The actual Jack the Ripper performed shocking mutilations on women. Even now it might be hard to get such stuff past the censors, and with good reason.

 

[Christopher]

They couldn't really go too far in a 1967 (8?) TV episode. Didn't want to scare the kids.

Exactly. There was only so far the censors would allow them to go.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They couldn't really go too far in a 1967 (8?) TV episode. Didn't want to scare the kids.

Exactly. There was only so far the censors would allow them to go.

Too right. It also extends to shows like Super Friends, which did two different episodes about vampires - who didn't bite, but shot LASER BEAMS.

 

[tomalak301]

They couldn't really go too far in a 1967 (8?) TV episode. Didn't want to scare the kids.

Exactly. There was only so far the censors would allow them to go.

I can understand that, but then there was a lot of torture and stuff in the third season that children might find a little disturbing. Stuff like Plato's Stepchildren or The Empath (Which I just watched) come to mind. I'm not saying it should have been rated R, but the end to that episode was cheesy because Jack the Ripper, who is the prince of death, was made into an annoying psychopath.

 

[Forbin]

Like Jack himself said in Time After Time, he was an freakin' amateur compared to some who came later.