A close shave
Jun. 23rd, 2009 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgThe Trek-fest continues, but the cracks are showing. After limping through "Spock's Brain" a.k.a. "Worst Episode Ever" we had the misfortune to find ourselves watching "The Empath" a.k.a. (depending on your source) "The Third Worst Episode Ever". At the 20 minute mark I declared myself unwilling to watch the rest of Season 3, and not at all keen to watch the rest of this horribly flat and yet wildly irritating episode.
Fortunately Husband forged on for both of us, and the other three eps on the disk were listed in the top 20 (depending on your source), which restored my faith. We are saving the second half of Season 2 to finish off with, and for those episodes at least I hope to be undistracted by Kirk's girdle and the generally inferior quality of the hair and makeup. It's so sad when the funding goes away and it's clear for all to see.
I did enjoy the moment in "Blink of an Eye" where Kirk, having been recruited to repopulate a planet, is seen pulling his boots on, having by implication just got Space Lucky. For the horrified feminists out there, the female Space Babe involved had the largest role and certainly most dialogue of any other I'd seen. Plus actual traces of intelligence and mild personality tendencies. For added bonus points she didn't turn into a steaming puddle of blue glue (via some kind of tentacled chicken-on-a-string format) as per the ending of "Cat's Paw".
Season 3 gets up my nose in all sorts of ways. Uhura is made to moon over Kirk, where for Seasons 1 and 2 she was delightfully neutral. That would be "The Tholian Web" which otherwise provided many moments of amusement in the physics department.
Oh dear, I think I just crossed some kind of nerd line*. It's late. I'm sick. And drugged. And in pain, which should be incompatible with the drugged bit, so I'm clearly doing that wrong.
Speaking of sick, did Leonard Nimoy have a cold during most of the filming of s3? I could find out I suppose; I could certainly put Husband on the case.
Must. Get. Out.
(*) Or did that happen when I started to be amused that the local shops were called "The Village" and referring to my rubbish bins as daleks? What next?
Fortunately Husband forged on for both of us, and the other three eps on the disk were listed in the top 20 (depending on your source), which restored my faith. We are saving the second half of Season 2 to finish off with, and for those episodes at least I hope to be undistracted by Kirk's girdle and the generally inferior quality of the hair and makeup. It's so sad when the funding goes away and it's clear for all to see.
I did enjoy the moment in "Blink of an Eye" where Kirk, having been recruited to repopulate a planet, is seen pulling his boots on, having by implication just got Space Lucky. For the horrified feminists out there, the female Space Babe involved had the largest role and certainly most dialogue of any other I'd seen. Plus actual traces of intelligence and mild personality tendencies. For added bonus points she didn't turn into a steaming puddle of blue glue (via some kind of tentacled chicken-on-a-string format) as per the ending of "Cat's Paw".
Season 3 gets up my nose in all sorts of ways. Uhura is made to moon over Kirk, where for Seasons 1 and 2 she was delightfully neutral. That would be "The Tholian Web" which otherwise provided many moments of amusement in the physics department.
Oh dear, I think I just crossed some kind of nerd line*. It's late. I'm sick. And drugged. And in pain, which should be incompatible with the drugged bit, so I'm clearly doing that wrong.
Speaking of sick, did Leonard Nimoy have a cold during most of the filming of s3? I could find out I suppose; I could certainly put Husband on the case.
Must. Get. Out.
(*) Or did that happen when I started to be amused that the local shops were called "The Village" and referring to my rubbish bins as daleks? What next?
