Star Trek Again...
This episode:
With Spock and Kirk in their tiny tiny tunics, proves that someone up there likes me. OMFG.
This episode is such *crack*. Just the sheer *amount* of crack like, boggles the mind. These crazy Greek aliens have TK (*not* TP) and make everyone do these utterly *cracktastic* things. (I have to say, everyone did a pretty good job at acting like they were being pulled by invisible forces.)
Plot device people use their powers and...
Spock laughs!
Spock cries!
Kirk crawls!
Kirk is a slave!
Kirk slaps himself! (Hehe.)
Spock dances flamenco on Kirk's head. (Aww, his darling little boots!)
Whee! Can't. Stop. Laughing.
Work it!
Spock breaks crockery! (hot)
Kirk and Spock dance and chant an Alice in Wonderland rhyme. (I'm *so* not getting into the retconning of that rhyme on the planet of people who left earth at the fall of the Greek Civilization.)
Kirk is a horsey!
Spock sings! (A song warning women that they shouldn't listen to silver-tongued lads lest the men "love in the breathless excitement of night" and leave with the women's "treasure in cold morning light." It's just funny to have Spock railing against the faithlessness of men like he's not one. But whatever, the Greeks are "making him sing it". A strange choice from Leonard or the director or whoever, though.)
Spock is pretty.
Spock and Kirk wear plant life on their heads.
Little people! (OMG I *love* Alexander.)
Historical artifacts! (Shield of Pericles, Scroll of Hippocrates... yeah right...)
The women are dressed and made up like something out of a seedy holosuite program.
Kirk and Spock wear tiny tunics!
Mmm, Starfleet's golden boy, indeed.
Heh, he's finally found a pre-ventilated shirt.
Spock's collarbones.
Mmm, sandals. Legs.
Forced kissing!
"Please make them stop."
"I haven't the power. I'm deeply sorry."
"For so long, I've wanted to be close to you. Now all I want to do is crawl away and die."
While Spock and Chapel's kiss is humiliating and gross, it's also kind of hot.
Whereas Kirk just gives Uhura the single most unsexy kiss ever.
Though this Greek chick is turned on by it.
Forced violence!
Whips! Brands!
Our boys *manifesting TK*.
Such. Crack.
But they're such committed actors, they make me believe it! (Except for Leonard's singing. That was just a pause-for-crack.)
And lastly, linked because I'm kind of ashamed to be capping this when Leonard was working so hard -- but not enough to stop myself: Spock panty shot wardrobe malfunction.
So the crazy Greeks make Kirk and Spock do things against their will. Like kiss people they've never wanted to kiss before. And this is almost disturbingly meta, if we read the show's writers (or fanfic writers) for the crazy Greeks. Putting Kirk and Spock in short dresses, the women in bad makeup, and throwing in random acts of unmotivated sex and violence. Hmm.
The more I watch TOS, the more I really like the acting. (Yes, okay, this may be partly in reaction to switching directly between Hidden Frontier and TOS.) I mean, people make fun of Shatner's acting, and yes he overacts, but he's also really *good*. At least IMHO. I think they're all really good. If they weren't, they wouldn't get us to swallow half the gobbledy-gook they try to sell us. I mean space ships and aliens and women in combat and no racial discrimination among humans? Come on! Their sets, costumes, and make-up are frequently ridiculously cheap, and the writing sometimes suspect. But by God, the actors *commit* to the story. I've heard similar things about Blakes 7, and that makes me want to pull out the season 1 I have downloaded and give it another chance. Umm, someday.