Star Trek: "The Man Trap" Season One, episode 1 Airdate: 9/8/1966
Out of all the Star Treks, my favourite remains the original. Today at 2 in the afternoon I watched its first episode on Space again. A episode that reminds why I like that series so much, it portriats humanity.
Thought I'll bring this up, because of that Love's Bitch comment earlier. Spike and Andrew types are not that rare in the media.
If you love someone a lot, and they die, what will you do? Do you love them enough to kill for them? Do you love them enough to die, to break laws, friendships, morality, mercys?
What will happen if your love was killed by something that looks like your love, acts, feels, and is willing to replace your love?
In "The Man Trap", the Enterprise trio beams down to planet M-113 to deliver supplies to Dr.Robert Crater and his wife, Nancy. One of the solely demanded supplies being salt. Dr.McCoy(My fave, BTW), used to be involved with Nancy, and was surprise at how little she changed, at second inspection however, Nancy looked as old as she should be.
Crews started dying, and were found with red marks on their faces, and their body deprive of NaCl(salt!). There is a creature on board, that craves salt, the creature can also assume any form. Although from the episode, I assume the creature can only assume the form of those it touched.
A conversation/interrogation with Dr.Crater reveals that the creature is the last of its kind. Once filling the entire planet, its race has slowly died off due to lack of salt. The real Nancy Crater was killed by the creature about two years ago.
In the end, even when James told Leonard(McCoy), that Nancy isn't really Nancy, he still have problem shooting "her", and only fired when the creature resumed its natural form.
Frankly I wondered about the creature, it's like a vampire. It can think, but not well, as demonstrated by its feeding and killing of Dr.Crater, who protected it, when there is another souce of salt available.
Still, Captain Kirk seems too eager to kill it. I can understand why, seeing as about two crewman has died(not including Crater) when they sorta figured out there was a creature, but it only wanted to survive. Plus, the creature was the last of the kind that inhabited the planet Enterprise picked it up from.
Dr.Crater said the creature is not dangerous once it got the salt it wants, so why not just give it to it?
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To drag Buffy in, I was really annoyed at her murder of Sandy, that vampire Riley was visiting. I mean, Sandy didn't even kill anyone as far as she knows. As far as Buffy knows Sandy has only took blood from those that offered it to her, WhatWouldAngelSay? Sandy needs blood to survive, and because she accepted a willing offer, she gets kill?
Back to Dr.Crater, I wonder how much he loves Nancy, and what kind of love. There is a kind of people who love someone because they need someone to clung to, and those are usually the type that continues on in denial when it is over.
I read a chinese tale, about a creature that wears the skin of the victim it kills. Some demon hunter and his new girlfriend moved to an area with that creature, and one night/day, the girlfriend was killed. When the demon hunter first figure this out, he was angry, and thought about avenging the girlfriend. But in the end he relented.
In the other chinese mordern tale, the husband of a spoiled woman was killed, but she goes on as if he has not been killed. Showing up in resturants waiting for him, whining about how come he is busy all the time...
I really wish we could have seen more of Andrew handling Warren's death. With the exception of "The Body", I don't think sub character death is handle well enough on BtVS. I mean, Jesse, the long time best friend of Willow and Xander, was just ignored after pliot episode. And what about Faith's thoughts on the Mayor's death? He cared about her, and she knows it.
Thought I'll bring this up, because of that Love's Bitch comment earlier. Spike and Andrew types are not that rare in the media.
If you love someone a lot, and they die, what will you do? Do you love them enough to kill for them? Do you love them enough to die, to break laws, friendships, morality, mercys?
What will happen if your love was killed by something that looks like your love, acts, feels, and is willing to replace your love?
In "The Man Trap", the Enterprise trio beams down to planet M-113 to deliver supplies to Dr.Robert Crater and his wife, Nancy. One of the solely demanded supplies being salt. Dr.McCoy(My fave, BTW), used to be involved with Nancy, and was surprise at how little she changed, at second inspection however, Nancy looked as old as she should be.
Crews started dying, and were found with red marks on their faces, and their body deprive of NaCl(salt!). There is a creature on board, that craves salt, the creature can also assume any form. Although from the episode, I assume the creature can only assume the form of those it touched.
A conversation/interrogation with Dr.Crater reveals that the creature is the last of its kind. Once filling the entire planet, its race has slowly died off due to lack of salt. The real Nancy Crater was killed by the creature about two years ago.
In the end, even when James told Leonard(McCoy), that Nancy isn't really Nancy, he still have problem shooting "her", and only fired when the creature resumed its natural form.
Frankly I wondered about the creature, it's like a vampire. It can think, but not well, as demonstrated by its feeding and killing of Dr.Crater, who protected it, when there is another souce of salt available.
Still, Captain Kirk seems too eager to kill it. I can understand why, seeing as about two crewman has died(not including Crater) when they sorta figured out there was a creature, but it only wanted to survive. Plus, the creature was the last of the kind that inhabited the planet Enterprise picked it up from.
Dr.Crater said the creature is not dangerous once it got the salt it wants, so why not just give it to it?
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To drag Buffy in, I was really annoyed at her murder of Sandy, that vampire Riley was visiting. I mean, Sandy didn't even kill anyone as far as she knows. As far as Buffy knows Sandy has only took blood from those that offered it to her, WhatWouldAngelSay? Sandy needs blood to survive, and because she accepted a willing offer, she gets kill?
Back to Dr.Crater, I wonder how much he loves Nancy, and what kind of love. There is a kind of people who love someone because they need someone to clung to, and those are usually the type that continues on in denial when it is over.
I read a chinese tale, about a creature that wears the skin of the victim it kills. Some demon hunter and his new girlfriend moved to an area with that creature, and one night/day, the girlfriend was killed. When the demon hunter first figure this out, he was angry, and thought about avenging the girlfriend. But in the end he relented.
In the other chinese mordern tale, the husband of a spoiled woman was killed, but she goes on as if he has not been killed. Showing up in resturants waiting for him, whining about how come he is busy all the time...
I really wish we could have seen more of Andrew handling Warren's death. With the exception of "The Body", I don't think sub character death is handle well enough on BtVS. I mean, Jesse, the long time best friend of Willow and Xander, was just ignored after pliot episode. And what about Faith's thoughts on the Mayor's death? He cared about her, and she knows it.