more season 3 TOS
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schmericaHere is a list of some TOS episodes I have watched in the last few days!
+Whom Gods Destroy
+The Mark of Gideon
+That Which Survives
+Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
+The Lights of Zetar
+Requiem for Methuselah
Now, you guys have been around long enough to know my super appreciative enthusiasm for Star Trek, I'm sure, so I know you will take in the same indulgent manner I intended it when I tell you that I've been grouping these episodes together in my head as "the dull ones." Like. Seriously. I liked it when Kirk and fake!Kirk fought in Whom Gods Destroy? Let That Be Your Last Battlefield was even preachier than usual? That's like six hours of TV and those are the deepest thoughts I have to share, seriously. There's no there there.
There is one very striking exception to this rule, though, and that is the last three minutes or so of Requiem for Methuselah. Omigod, you guys. That episode was pretty blah all the way through -- Kirk fell in love with an android, she became human and died, blah blah blah -- but that transfer in the end scene from Kirk's manpain to Spock observing Kirk's manpain, and then followed by McCoy's speech.
I'm copying down the whole thing here, just because:
You wouldn't understand that, would you, Spock? You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word love isn't written into your book. Goodnight, Spock.
And Spock follows that up by erasing Rayna from Kirk's mind. Just like Kirk wished he could do, like McCoy wished for him. Spock does this unexcusable thing to Kirk's mind and there's no explanation for it except McCoy's speech, no explanation except that he loves Kirk. And that's the end of the episode.
I just. You guys. I flail at you in a meaningful manner. *FLAILS*
In other news it has been gray and rainy all afternoon and I feel it is absolutely glorious. I missed you, perfect snuggly autumn weather. I currently have two loaves of pumpkin apple bread cooking in the oven to welcome fall in. It smells cinnamony all through the apartment.
Tonight I am going to drink a lot of vodka and watch a lot of Greek, in honor to my comrade![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
loveyouallwrong who could not join me tonight. Tomorrow ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fox1013 and I were thinking about going to the Medieval Festival, which -- on the one hand part of me just wants to stay home and do laundry and work on homework, but on the other hand, it's a motherfucking medieval festival. So I don't know! Anybody else planning on going?
+Whom Gods Destroy
+The Mark of Gideon
+That Which Survives
+Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
+The Lights of Zetar
+Requiem for Methuselah
Now, you guys have been around long enough to know my super appreciative enthusiasm for Star Trek, I'm sure, so I know you will take in the same indulgent manner I intended it when I tell you that I've been grouping these episodes together in my head as "the dull ones." Like. Seriously. I liked it when Kirk and fake!Kirk fought in Whom Gods Destroy? Let That Be Your Last Battlefield was even preachier than usual? That's like six hours of TV and those are the deepest thoughts I have to share, seriously. There's no there there.
There is one very striking exception to this rule, though, and that is the last three minutes or so of Requiem for Methuselah. Omigod, you guys. That episode was pretty blah all the way through -- Kirk fell in love with an android, she became human and died, blah blah blah -- but that transfer in the end scene from Kirk's manpain to Spock observing Kirk's manpain, and then followed by McCoy's speech.
I'm copying down the whole thing here, just because:
You wouldn't understand that, would you, Spock? You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word love isn't written into your book. Goodnight, Spock.
And Spock follows that up by erasing Rayna from Kirk's mind. Just like Kirk wished he could do, like McCoy wished for him. Spock does this unexcusable thing to Kirk's mind and there's no explanation for it except McCoy's speech, no explanation except that he loves Kirk. And that's the end of the episode.
I just. You guys. I flail at you in a meaningful manner. *FLAILS*
In other news it has been gray and rainy all afternoon and I feel it is absolutely glorious. I missed you, perfect snuggly autumn weather. I currently have two loaves of pumpkin apple bread cooking in the oven to welcome fall in. It smells cinnamony all through the apartment.
Tonight I am going to drink a lot of vodka and watch a lot of Greek, in honor to my comrade
loveyouallwrong who could not join me tonight. Tomorrow fox1013 and I were thinking about going to the Medieval Festival, which -- on the one hand part of me just wants to stay home and do laundry and work on homework, but on the other hand, it's a motherfucking medieval festival. So I don't know! Anybody else planning on going?Tags: