part one<\/a>)<\/p>\nI\u2019m into season two now. Some things I\u2019m noticing:<\/p>\n
* The writers are very consistent with the message that peacemaking is unnatural to human beings. We\u2019re the savage species, the killers who for some reason decided to go out to the stars to answer cries for help. This seriously comes up every other episode (it\u2019s part of what they use Spock\u2019s alienness for) and it adds so much emotional resonance to the (less-consistent) peacemaking itself. I am not a fan of ST:TNG<\/em> so I\u2019m the wrong person to analyze its flaws, but I never did feel that tension\u2013I never felt that ST:TNG<\/em>\u2018s sanitary humans were longing<\/em> to punch and kill and walk away from the explosion\u2013and that\u2019s part of why the revived series didn\u2019t work for me, I think.<\/p>\n* Speaking of fighting, I love how Captain Kirk constantly fights with his feet. Why? Why does he do this? So many shots of him flying into the melee feet-first, like a Love and Rockets<\/em> cartoon about pro wrestling. I especially love when he grabs hold of that one red mesh wall in the engineering deck and uses his hands to hold onto it so he can battle with his feet.<\/p>\n* I was hoping that the cast of Devil in the Dark<\/em> was all-male but you do spot one female crewman on the bridge in a very late scene. Overall though it\u2019s one of the most testosterone-soaked episodes in terms of casting, which was very smart. Sets are great and kind of cheap \u201980s horror imo.<\/p>\n* Fred Steiner deserves more credit than he gets. The music in Amok Time<\/em> is phenomenal\u2013jazzy, otherworldly, disorienting and utterly retro-futuristic\u2013and I remember especially liking the music in The Changeling<\/em> as well. Also, nice work with the similar yet contrasting themes for the two starships in The Doomsday Machine<\/em>: The Constellation\u2019s theme is a minor-key and tragic, broken reworking of the Enterprise\u2019s familiar dun-dah-daaaaaaahhh adventure song.<\/p>\n* Amok Time<\/em> is also gorgeous to look at and hugely fun to watch. Like Mirror, Mirror<\/em>. Also, if we\u2019re getting our nerd on, Amok Time<\/em> is (imo) clearly the source of the challenges in ElfQuest<\/em> where Cutter and Rayek battle for Leetah. Take a look at the bridge challenge in ElfQuest<\/em> vs the wide shot of the setting of the Amok Time<\/em> challenge; also the sling weapon and, you know, the general concept. Leetah > T\u2019Pring of course but I will say both T\u2019Pring and T\u2019Pau are excellent one-off characters. Also I know I go all gooey about Shatner but Leonard Nimoy is fantastic as Spock; we\u2019re so used to it that we forget to point it out.<\/p>\n* They\u2019ve already started recycling plots. The solution in The Changeling<\/em> is the exact same one as in Return of the Archons<\/em>; Return of the Archons<\/em> + Who Mourns for Adonis?<\/em> = The Apple<\/em>. Oh well. We\u2019ll call it a motif and knock off work early.<\/p>\n* Both Edith Keeler and Marlena Moreau appear quite late in their respective episodes\u2013almost at the halfway point, iirc. I still find it hard to care about Keeler even though her character concept is basically \u201cI am Dorothy Day, Destroyer of Worlds!\u201d, but Marlena Moreau is basically my perfect woman. I would watch endless spinoff seasons about her and Mirror!Spock subverting the Empire. Barbara Luna burns a hole in the screen, and she had great chemistry with Shatner. Between Marlena and Uhura this episode was probably formative for me in ways I should discuss with my confessor.<\/p>\n
* Not as much lilac in season two. You can\u2019t have everything.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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