Beyond the farthest star
Dec. 26th, 2009 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tilly_stratfordOoh, I forgot - I finally got desperate enough to sit down with my very first episode of a certain animated series from the seventies:
Oh dear.
First: There's an orange alien thing where Chekov should be at the helm. Yeah, they couldn't get Koenig so they replaced Chekov with a... orange dude with four arms. So many questions. What's its name? Can it speak? Has Kirk had sex with it yet? Hopefully not all of these questions will be answered in the following episodes.
But really I had completely forgotten what really cheap animation looked like. Such a waste of the animated medium - they could have pulled off anything they wanted, but instead it's a long series of still frames and technobabble.
Well, at least I find the rotoscoped effect shots from TOS rather endearing. And its devotion to other traditional TOS hallmarks;
- shots lovingly framing Kirk's ass.
- And uh, yeah.
I promise I won't do posts for every individual episode (if I manage to keep going), it's just... gah, such frustration!
Oh dear.
First: There's an orange alien thing where Chekov should be at the helm. Yeah, they couldn't get Koenig so they replaced Chekov with a... orange dude with four arms. So many questions. What's its name? Can it speak? Has Kirk had sex with it yet? Hopefully not all of these questions will be answered in the following episodes.
But really I had completely forgotten what really cheap animation looked like. Such a waste of the animated medium - they could have pulled off anything they wanted, but instead it's a long series of still frames and technobabble.
Well, at least I find the rotoscoped effect shots from TOS rather endearing. And its devotion to other traditional TOS hallmarks;
- shots lovingly framing Kirk's ass.
- And uh, yeah.
I promise I won't do posts for every individual episode (if I manage to keep going), it's just... gah, such frustration!
