I'm watching TOS myself right now (for the first time), though I get stuck often enough :D I'm somewhere in the second half of second season now, I believe. :)
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 out that make little sense about this episode, it was still one of my favourites. I think it just really shows Kirk off as a Captain that I love and admire. The scenes/eps that show off competent captain Kirk just squeeze my feels in all the right ways. XD
I know that these episodes made use of footage from the unaired pilot "The Cage," though I haven't seen that version of it.
When I started on TOS, I didnt know The Cage was not a part of it and I have to say that after watching it, Menagerie was terribly boring, I'm afraid XD
1x13, "The Conscience of the King"
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.
As for Kodos being recognized, yes, that always bothers me in this story, but according to it, there was no way to recognize Kodos. As if actually his photographs didn't exist. Obviously this makes little sense and one can rationalize that they were spare, he looked different then, Starfleet tried to hide the Tarsus fiasco and obviously people generally wouldn't expect Kodos to be a traveling actor, etc.
But also, it points out, in my opinion at last, how much different Star Trek's technology is than ours, how much more it's set on listening/talking and less on viewing. Obviously it's in huge part probably due to the fact that this was way easier to shoot, but still. It always weirds me out how even when they're being sneaky and they ask computer for something, it still reads it out loud to them. I mean, how much easier (and quicker) for them would be to just read it themselves? And even in this episode, Kirk, who after all saw Kodos, tries to make sure it's him by trying to recognize his voice.
I just think it's interesting and I ramble, sorry xD
The Romulan commander's feelings about Kirk seemed to go beyond simple respect for an enemy and into crush territory by the end.
The truth is: I ship Kirk with every Klingon and every Romulan that appears in this show. I know, I know, the show says respect for one's enemy, but I say crushes and blatant flirtation.
1x15, "Shore Leave"
The saddest part of this episode is how it's too old to make Ghostbusters' references.
but why the hell did they bring along the chief engineer and the ship's doctor? McCoy in particular is a pretty inexplicable choice.
I think at some point it's just easier to stop wondering why Bones is where Bones is. It's more surprising when it makes sense at this point.
Why is he constantly on the bridge? Why does he go for missions like this one? Why was he the one checking out the planet in Shore Leave? Sure, let's send Bones on another mission he has no use on, in a shuttle, because he loves those so much. I think at some point Bones just decided to be as illogical as possible to piss off Spock some more. That's the only possible explanation of all the facts.
I think I will go back to watch more TOS now as well XD You got me back in the mood for it ;D
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Date: 2014-08-25 12:09 am (UTC)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 out that make little sense about this episode, it was still one of my favourites. I think it just really shows Kirk off as a Captain that I love and admire. The scenes/eps that show off competent captain Kirk just squeeze my feels in all the right ways. XD
I know that these episodes made use of footage from the unaired pilot "The Cage," though I haven't seen that version of it.
When I started on TOS, I didnt know The Cage was not a part of it and I have to say that after watching it, Menagerie was terribly boring, I'm afraid XD
1x13, "The Conscience of the King"
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.
As for Kodos being recognized, yes, that always bothers me in this story, but according to it, there was no way to recognize Kodos. As if actually his photographs didn't exist. Obviously this makes little sense and one can rationalize that they were spare, he looked different then, Starfleet tried to hide the Tarsus fiasco and obviously people generally wouldn't expect Kodos to be a traveling actor, etc.
But also, it points out, in my opinion at last, how much different Star Trek's technology is than ours, how much more it's set on listening/talking and less on viewing. Obviously it's in huge part probably due to the fact that this was way easier to shoot, but still. It always weirds me out how even when they're being sneaky and they ask computer for something, it still reads it out loud to them. I mean, how much easier (and quicker) for them would be to just read it themselves? And even in this episode, Kirk, who after all saw Kodos, tries to make sure it's him by trying to recognize his voice.
I just think it's interesting and I ramble, sorry xD
The Romulan commander's feelings about Kirk seemed to go beyond simple respect for an enemy and into crush territory by the end.
The truth is: I ship Kirk with every Klingon and every Romulan that appears in this show. I know, I know, the show says respect for one's enemy, but I say crushes and blatant flirtation.
1x15, "Shore Leave"
The saddest part of this episode is how it's too old to make Ghostbusters' references.
but why the hell did they bring along the chief engineer and the ship's doctor? McCoy in particular is a pretty inexplicable choice.
I think at some point it's just easier to stop wondering why Bones is where Bones is. It's more surprising when it makes sense at this point.
Why is he constantly on the bridge? Why does he go for missions like this one? Why was he the one checking out the planet in Shore Leave? Sure, let's send Bones on another mission he has no use on, in a shuttle, because he loves those so much. I think at some point Bones just decided to be as illogical as possible to piss off Spock some more. That's the only possible explanation of all the facts.
I think I will go back to watch more TOS now as well XD You got me back in the mood for it ;D