Target Audience first time watches TAS…

[Warped9]

I followed a couple of guys on Youtube calling themselves the Target Audience as they watched the entirety of TOS for the first time. Suffice to say they really enjoyed TOS as a whole. They even liked third season somewhat more than many long time fans!

Now they’re starting their first time watch of TAS! And they claim having less knowledge, next to nothing, of TAS than they had of TOS.

Here is their first viewing of “Beyond The Farthest Star.”

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[Warped9]

I enjoy their fresh eyes on TOS, and now TAS, even when I’m not in agreement with them.

In September 1973 I was 14 when TAS debuted. The first episode was “Beyond The Farthest Star” and I was all-in with this new Star Trek after years of TOS reruns. I still much preferred TOS, but this was an exciting new chapter with lots of new things and new adventures. Being a child of the 1960s I didn’t mind the animation style at the time (and viewed through adolescent eyes), but as years would go by I would become rather less enamoured with the animation.

Nonetheless at the core of TAS were stories that still felt like genuine Star Trek even if at times they felt truncated. And while I now see lots of stuff in it that doesn’t sync with TOS I rationalize TAS as something of a stylized storyboard of live-action TOS.

 

[M'Sharak]

They even liked third season somewhat more than many long time fans!

It's OK to enjoy Season 3, really.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's OK to enjoy Season 3, really.

 

[Warped9]

Another winner for them.

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[Poltargyst]

Another winner for them.

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That is a good episode.

The one guy goes "If I was a kid, and these were coming on new, I would have eaten them up."

Yes. Yes I did.

 

[Warped9]

That is a good episode.

The one guy goes "If I was a kid, and these were coming on new, I would have eaten them up."

Yes. Yes I did.

Back in the day so did I.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Those guys should have asked, how many Saturday morning cartoons in those days were dramatizing euthanasia? Even Partridge Family 2200 A.D. never touched the subject. TAS was a unicorn.

 

[Warped9]

Before kids were kept in bubble wrap.

 

[drt]

The first half dozen or so TAS episodes could have easily been TOS episodes -- I'm curious what these guys will think when stuff starts getting wackier.

 

[Warped9]

Not bad, but not as good as the first two.

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[Warped9]

They are really liking this series.

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[Therin of Andor]

The one guy goes "If I was a kid, and these were coming on new, I would have eaten them up."

Yes. Yes I did.

And first-run in Australia was in glorious b/w on a Saturday morning! Including many shades of grey when the characters caught Auroral Plague.

 

[Warped9]

They can’t all be winners. I know myself I don’t care for this one at all as it brings nothing of substance to the table. It’s a thoroughly pointless followup and very much the kind of thing you woukd do as kiddie fare.

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[drt]

I don’t know, I thought the space battle with the stasis weapon and the robot cargo ships were cool.

 

[Warped9]

When you really think of it most everything in MTMT was a rehash of something TOS had already done. Indeed the Target Audience guys actually point that out.

 

[publiusr]

Have they seen the recent TNG and Voyager send-ups?

Flash Gordon was where Filmation stepped it up. Maybe the new-TAS guys could borrow from that…a good next-watch for the guys here too. Or the “Quintain.”

Or even the Space Sentinels, which is still a guilty pleasure of mine.

 

[Warped9]

They liked it. This is an episode that could have been done live-action with little change given TOS had already done shape-shifting beings, but it couldn’t have been as exotic as the animated Vendorian.

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[Warped9]

Another one liked. I, too, like this one, but the oversized Spock clone is just too stupid.

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[JonnyQuest037]

I've never heard of The Target Audience YouTube channel before, so I thought this thread was going to be about your kids watching TAS for the first time. I actually thought, "Wow, I didn't realize Warped9 had kids..."

I'll check this out, although I may watch some of their TOS reviews first, to gauge how their tastes line up with mine.