Star Trek TOS: reactions to many episodes from S1
While I wait for the new episode of Doctor Who to be legally available in my area, I'm going to talk about a different decades-old institution of SF television: Star Trek. I've been continuing my Star Trek TOS watch through, but I've been seriously negligent about posting episode reactions like I said I would. So here is a post about LOTS of
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If Evie's final dose of the drug was a placebo, how come her makeup and hair were both done after she took it?
That made me laugh so hard XD wow! the power of positive thinking! it gives you make up and does your hair! AMAZING.
They encounter a planet that seems to be an exact duplicate of Earth, but this REALLY WEIRD THING is never explained and barely even acknowledged after the initial setup.
One of those brilliant, never well explained things filed under "but captain why we constantly end up on planets resembling Earth and why it's most of the time 60s when we time-travel?"
William Shatner does some Very Intense Acting.
XDDD
I once explained I can't watch more than one, maybe two eps at the time, because in those I still get a stronger dosage of ACTING than in a whole season of a different show.
1x10, "The Corbomite Maneuver"While I agree with the things you pointed ( ... )
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One of those brilliant, never well explained things filed under "but captain why we constantly end up on planets resembling Earth and why it's most of the time 60s when we time-travel?"
They really should add this to the list of things they're supposed to be investigating in their mission.
This episode was so weird for me, because Tarsus IV is one of those horrible things that I enjoy being explored in fics. And as always, after reading a huge amount of great fics - the original inspiration left a lot to be desried. But it still hit right in the feels.I haven't read much TOS fic, but I can definitely see how Tarsus IV would be the sort of thing that fic writers would love to explore. As it is, the show basically throws in Kirk's presence there to put him on Kodos's daughter's hit list with hardly any attention to the ramifications to Kirk's character. Oh well ( ... )
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I haven't read much TOS fic, but I can definitely see how Tarsus IV would be the sort of thing that fic writers would love to explore.
I actually haven't read much TOS fic either. I got hooked via newest movies and I mostly read AOS, but they use so much of the original series that plenty of plot points get dragged in. Including, of course, Tarsus IV.
And yeah, the original plot pales so much in comparison to those fics. Obviously some use Tarsus just as a mention or tiny plot point, but some explore all the pain, issues and trauma and they're so detailed and heart-breaking that watching this episode after them it only hurts because it brings up all those feelings from the fics. D:
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