Passing the two-third mark
Dec. 14th, 2009 03:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaI need to find other people who have been blogging their Trek (re)watches. I mean, I personally know like five ppl who rewatched the whole TV series after the new movie came out, y'all are just lazy. XDD And the folks out there all seem to be obsessed with totting up the number of Significant Looks per episode between Kirk and Spock and concurrently sniping at babe o' the week, which is awesome and all, but there is so much other hilarity happening in this thing.
TOS S01E20 The Alternative Factor: for instance, my Significant Looks per episode at Spock's bum as he hunches over his space viewer thingy. I note in passing that they've improved the ergonomics of the bridge science station in the new movie, for definition of "improve" with which a million ZQ fangirls would beg to differ. Reboot Kirk doesn't know what he's missing, poor thing.
Other than aforementioned opening shot, this was a bona fide bad episode, the first thus far. You can sort of glimpse the germ of a cool idea that could have worked as a textual short story, but that becomes doubly incoherent when 1960s F/X limitations bump up against an event that's as intuitively representable in visual linear narrative terms as the square root of -1.
TOS S01E21 Tomorrow Is Yesterday: whereas this one is just like ROLLING 4EVR. Maybe because I'm a X-Files + Unsolved Mysteries fan of long standing; I mean, can you imagine if the Truth... that's Out There... is that... *TREK THEME STARTS* *cut to shot of USS Enterprise wobbling its awkward-swan way across the blue Midwestern sky*
It's just, yeah. Too much pop culture baggage, forty years of alien abduction scenarios and Star Trek both, but for once it's working for rather than against the intended effect. Looking at the FACE of the second guy they accidentally beamed up was like insert yr own gag re: anal probes and Mr. Spock. But that would be twice this post wouldn't it.
The ensemble dialogue and doing-stuff was brilliant too, including the Spock-McCoy interaction. It's kind of a fine line for me, I find - my close friends' circle doesn't do that kind of hardcore teasing/sarcasm, and I wouldn't be able to suck it up personally if they did, so half the time I'm like OMG NOT FUNNY DD:. But it totally depends on the episode (i.e. whoever's writing it). And lots of Sulu! Oh yeah and when Kirk was jimmying that door in the airbase I was like "...Sonic screwdriver! No wait, wrong series," and then IT TURNED OUT TO BE A SONIC SCREWDRIVER, BAWLING. I guess now we know where the Doctor goes to pick those up.
TOS S01E20 The Alternative Factor: for instance, my Significant Looks per episode at Spock's bum as he hunches over his space viewer thingy. I note in passing that they've improved the ergonomics of the bridge science station in the new movie, for definition of "improve" with which a million ZQ fangirls would beg to differ. Reboot Kirk doesn't know what he's missing, poor thing.
Other than aforementioned opening shot, this was a bona fide bad episode, the first thus far. You can sort of glimpse the germ of a cool idea that could have worked as a textual short story, but that becomes doubly incoherent when 1960s F/X limitations bump up against an event that's as intuitively representable in visual linear narrative terms as the square root of -1.
TOS S01E21 Tomorrow Is Yesterday: whereas this one is just like ROLLING 4EVR. Maybe because I'm a X-Files + Unsolved Mysteries fan of long standing; I mean, can you imagine if the Truth... that's Out There... is that... *TREK THEME STARTS* *cut to shot of USS Enterprise wobbling its awkward-swan way across the blue Midwestern sky*
It's just, yeah. Too much pop culture baggage, forty years of alien abduction scenarios and Star Trek both, but for once it's working for rather than against the intended effect. Looking at the FACE of the second guy they accidentally beamed up was like insert yr own gag re: anal probes and Mr. Spock. But that would be twice this post wouldn't it.
The ensemble dialogue and doing-stuff was brilliant too, including the Spock-McCoy interaction. It's kind of a fine line for me, I find - my close friends' circle doesn't do that kind of hardcore teasing/sarcasm, and I wouldn't be able to suck it up personally if they did, so half the time I'm like OMG NOT FUNNY DD:. But it totally depends on the episode (i.e. whoever's writing it). And lots of Sulu! Oh yeah and when Kirk was jimmying that door in the airbase I was like "...Sonic screwdriver! No wait, wrong series," and then IT TURNED OUT TO BE A SONIC SCREWDRIVER, BAWLING. I guess now we know where the Doctor goes to pick those up.
