I Kissed A Corpse (And I Liked It)

[tilly_stratford]

Both Maria and I are back in Bergen, so I've been rewatching Star Trek once again, yay!

She wanted to get more acquainted with season three (in spite of my warnings) so we gave 'Spectre of the gun' a watch. Much groaning about Scotty's new hairdo was had. And expressions of disbelief at how insane that part where Kirk and the sheriff is screaming at eachother is ("I CAN'T KILL THEM!!" "YOU GOTTA KILL THEM!!" "BUT I CAN'T KILL THEM!!" "YOU HAVE TO KILL THEM!!").

Also I had completely forgotten how extremely anticlimatic that episode is. Jeez, how is that even possible with all that shooting and even a smidgen of kirk-fu?

To balance the cowboys out we then watched "the one with the indians", 'The paradise syndrome':

Maria: "What... What is Kirk doing to that pine tree? God he's feeling that bough up isn't he. He can't go five minutes without - oh! Now Spock caught him, good Kirk, get rid of that bough."

And that ending, oh dear.

Kirk: "I! Am! KIROOOOOOK!"
Me: "Oh I always scream out my name when I'm frustrated too. There's a school assignment I can't figure out? 'I AM TILDEEEEE!'."

We also watched half of Star Trek XI, which Maria hasn't seen yet (she threw up her hands in resignation after Spock and Uhura made out and mumbled something about "This is just silly. Let's watch the rest some other time").

Comments

[my_daroga]

Aw, I like "Spectre of the Gun." Maybe because of what they had to work with and how they used it, I don't know. Hee.

[tilly-stratford.livejournal.com]

I've realized the main reason I dislike that episode is because of the horrible lighting. All of season three has that garish unforgiving white light but coupled with that red sky it makes me uncomfortable just looking at it. Random reason or what?

[my_daroga]

No, it makes total sense. They just didn't have a location budget, and then didn't have a set budget, so mostly I focus on what they were able to do. Which wasn't much, but I always thought that one at least provided a clever way around the problem.

The lighting does devolve from the first season, with all those awesome shadows and colors.