A review of ATCSL from long time YT Trekcaster Steve Shives. Steve's usually fair in his reviews, enjoy!
Steve's review of: And The Children Shall Lead
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I love perspectives, but I'll up the ante with a couple more:
Also, even Bunny hopped to it as well:
Also, even Bunny hopped to it as well:
I think the episode is hurt partially because of the TOS decision to focus on Kirk. This could have been a serviceable sci fi horror if it was more of a TNG style story focused on McCoy and Chapel unravelling the mystery. It didn't really need the whole let's take over the ship angle to be sinister if Gorgon is just piggy-backing on the children, using their life force to sustain his link to reality, while gradually making the crew more uneasy and paranoid. Sulu panicking because of any old imaginary space debris or comets, Uhura catching a glimpse of an ageing face, Scotty getting paranoid that his men are looking after his engines, etc. They can all ramp up the tension given what the people on the planet did.
It's so frustrating that TOS Chapel clearly clocks that something is wrong and then puts her brain back into neutral so the men can figure it out.
It's so frustrating that TOS Chapel clearly clocks that something is wrong and then puts her brain back into neutral so the men can figure it out.
Don’t have the time to watch review videos, alas.
I can save everyone a whole lot of time:
It bad. It really bad.
I love TOS, even (generally) the bad ones. But I really have to steel myself to sit through one. It’s just incredibly dull and those kids really, REALLY grate on the nerves. This may be the least appealing and, therefore, worst episode of the show’s run.
I can save everyone a whole lot of time:
It bad. It really bad.
I love TOS, even (generally) the bad ones. But I really have to steel myself to sit through one. It’s just incredibly dull and those kids really, REALLY grate on the nerves. This may be the least appealing and, therefore, worst episode of the show’s run.
It's boring, it's dull, it's dumb. At least Spock's Brain was entertaining and campy if you were in the right frame of mind. There's not much entertainment in ATCSL.
Link to post.From Pamelyn Ferdin's Facebook page:
Looks like they're standing in front of Stage 9. If so, the view is west out the Gower Street gate (now Leonard Nimoy Way), which would make Mission: Impossible's Stage 7 the building at the right side of the photo.
Will work for ''Peanuts'' and with Clint Eastwood in due time before her Academy stint.From Pamelyn Ferdin's Facebook page:
From Pamelyn Ferdin's Facebook page:
Nice find!
Love or loathe the story, the cast did well with the material, and the idea of manipulating children isn't bad. A couple scenes are suitably horrific and for the right reasons. Okay, most say Belli phoned it in, but a couple lines were definitely on the right track. But he's not in it until the end and one has to wonder what the director and others were thinking while filming, apart from "let's get this story wrapped and onto the next one" - the actors all had the most difficult job, playing it straight. The plotting and dialogue are some of the least effect no matter what ideas were trying to be conveyed.
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