Watching Star Trek for the first time (again)

I'm afraid it's a pretty tight knit group for the moment. There are copyright and privacy concerns. If you end up joining us for our Wednesday nights, though, we're talking about doing live readings!

 

Professor Crater has gone through the Guardian of Time in search for salt -- here he is in tonight's (10-12-66) The Virginian!

 

Yes.

Charlie Brown -- people being mean to each other, the cartoon.

After the lousiness of the Christmas special, you can bet we're not hurrying back for more.

 

The audience is always right about what it likes and what it doesn't.

 

Argumentum ad populum.

Agreed!

 

Speaking of which, look who was on last week's (66-10-19) I, Spy:

 

Too which I add a "No Blah Blah Blah!"

Those specials are indeed quite special and remain a source of pure joy for me.

 

I guarantee, based on past performance, we'll be tuning into Trek, not Peanuts. We're not missing out on a thing.

 

I loved them as a kid, too. When the mean treatment occurred, we would be a little sad about it, but that was the point, and we rolled with the story. Kids were just expected to have a thicker skin in the 1960s and 70s, so we did. "That's life."

The funny thing is, when I caught up with the Christmas Special a few years ago, the mean bits seemed super harsh, and took me out of the story. I was shocked. Our culture changed so much from the 1980s onward, it had changed me and my expectations along with it. And this new sensitivity is not entirely a good thing. It's made us pretty soft.

I have to say, one pure good in the Christmas Special is its music. And last year I found the soundtrack CD in a thrift shop for a dollar. That was a steal.

 

I loved reading Peanuts strips as a kid. I could see the nuggets of truth in them as young as 7.

 

Was it supposed to be a secret?

 

Oh yeah, Vince Guaraldi is a genius.

Interestingly, at our annual Oktoberfest, we had an extraordinary number of talented musical performers. One of them jumped on our piano and played Lucy and Linus (the eternal Peanuts song).

 

Phrasing.

 

I just picked up the steelbook TOS set I’m such a sucker but they are nice although I’m not a fan of stacked disks I’m gonna have to sell my original blu’s.

Anyhow since I have them doing a rewatch of the with original effects and stereo sound