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Feb. 22nd, 2019 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynBeen watching Star Trek on Netflix streaming for a little while now. Only a few episodes so far- last night was The Naked Time.
The Man Trap and Charlie X were significantly better than I remembered them being. Both in terms of the writing, and in terms of the acting.
Where No Man Has Gone Before, on the other hand... um. Wow. Not only was the writing worse than I remembered, and the acting weirder- particularly the actress who played Liz Dehner's- I spent most of the episode wincing and muttering 'that HAS to hurt' every time Dehner or Mitchell had silver eyes on screen- the silver contact lenses were that distracting, and poor Gary Lockwood was holding his head and eyelids in ways that I recognized as signs of 'I am wearing hard contacts and would like to claw my eyes out, please'. His lines being profoundly not great didn't help much, either.
And for some reason, one of the only two things I remembered from previous watchings was wrong... it did not end with Dehner distracting him and overloading a phaser to destroy them both while he was weakened. I don't know why I remember that.
(The only other thing I remembered was the most important line, although I had its verb slightly wrong. Above all else a god requires compassion, Mitchell!)
At least The Naked Time was good stuff again after that.
The Man Trap and Charlie X were significantly better than I remembered them being. Both in terms of the writing, and in terms of the acting.
Where No Man Has Gone Before, on the other hand... um. Wow. Not only was the writing worse than I remembered, and the acting weirder- particularly the actress who played Liz Dehner's- I spent most of the episode wincing and muttering 'that HAS to hurt' every time Dehner or Mitchell had silver eyes on screen- the silver contact lenses were that distracting, and poor Gary Lockwood was holding his head and eyelids in ways that I recognized as signs of 'I am wearing hard contacts and would like to claw my eyes out, please'. His lines being profoundly not great didn't help much, either.
And for some reason, one of the only two things I remembered from previous watchings was wrong... it did not end with Dehner distracting him and overloading a phaser to destroy them both while he was weakened. I don't know why I remember that.
(The only other thing I remembered was the most important line, although I had its verb slightly wrong. Above all else a god requires compassion, Mitchell!)
At least The Naked Time was good stuff again after that.
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Date: 2019-02-22 05:57 pm (UTC)But now I am mired in late season three. At best, it's tolerable. At worst...well, I am at the point I should have watched the space hippies. It's sitting on my phone, waiting. It might wait a long while.
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Date: 2019-02-22 07:41 pm (UTC)