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Jan. 13th, 2021 09:23 amMade it through "The Way To Eden" aka the SPACE HIPPIES episode last night.
It gets a lot easier to slug through if one spends as much of the episode as possible knowing that Adam, the grinning one with the curly orange hair, went on to play the leader of the Good Ole Boys band in The Blues Brothers. Kind of hilarious imagery results, although it still helps to turn the sound off during the musical numbers.
It then gets a lot harder to slug through upon realizing it's about a group of utterly dedicated people loudly and unquestioningly following a leader who screams HEALTH FREEDOM, YOUR SOCIETY MADE ME ILL, I REFUSE TO SUBMIT TO WHAT SCIENCE SAYS WILL KEEP ANYBODY SAFE and then goes about setting events in motion intended to kill everybody on board the Enterprise, after having them storm all the vital parts of the ship in the name of FREEDOM. Because none of them like or want to deal with society or accept the fact that things are not to their liking. And their idea of countering situations they don't like is to yell the same insult over and over and over as if that were an argument.
(I am aware that actual hippies and 60s activists were reacting to incredibly repressive sit-down-and-shut-up-you-little-idiots conditions in the real world. But this was a Star Trek episode that had all the authenticity of a Very Special Episode about racism written by old white men, and it understood hippies about as well as the script for "Miri" understood children, and portrayed them about as well as the 35-year-old actor in "Miri" who was supposed to be someone who'd been twelve for two hundred years.)
It gets a lot easier to slug through if one spends as much of the episode as possible knowing that Adam, the grinning one with the curly orange hair, went on to play the leader of the Good Ole Boys band in The Blues Brothers. Kind of hilarious imagery results, although it still helps to turn the sound off during the musical numbers.
It then gets a lot harder to slug through upon realizing it's about a group of utterly dedicated people loudly and unquestioningly following a leader who screams HEALTH FREEDOM, YOUR SOCIETY MADE ME ILL, I REFUSE TO SUBMIT TO WHAT SCIENCE SAYS WILL KEEP ANYBODY SAFE and then goes about setting events in motion intended to kill everybody on board the Enterprise, after having them storm all the vital parts of the ship in the name of FREEDOM. Because none of them like or want to deal with society or accept the fact that things are not to their liking. And their idea of countering situations they don't like is to yell the same insult over and over and over as if that were an argument.
(I am aware that actual hippies and 60s activists were reacting to incredibly repressive sit-down-and-shut-up-you-little-idiots conditions in the real world. But this was a Star Trek episode that had all the authenticity of a Very Special Episode about racism written by old white men, and it understood hippies about as well as the script for "Miri" understood children, and portrayed them about as well as the 35-year-old actor in "Miri" who was supposed to be someone who'd been twelve for two hundred years.)
