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Star Trek 3x08 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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2022-12-17 17:51:48
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Star Trek 3x08 Full Reaction

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Ryan

This one comes off as a real missed opportunity. Just imagine the story of McCoy's illness on a modern show, which could spend months with the characters racing against time to find a cure, rather than knowing it will somehow be resolved by the end of the episode. Also, it's always felt weird that there's literally no reason for the people to be forbidden from knowing they're on an asteroid, just so there can be some kind of conflict in the climax.

Thomas Corp

Well, I'm sorry to hear you haven’t been sleeping too well lately. I've been in a similar situation myself. Actually, that’s usually a consistent thing around this time of year, holiday stress/being depressed around the holidays I suppose, though admittedly it’s been more on the depressed side over the last decade; a feeling that’s been significantly exacerbated over the last few years. So, I empathize with you on that, Jess, and again, I am sorry to hear about that. By the way, I thought your hair looked nice. Perhaps I'm not the best judge of anyone’s hair, but I thought it looked nice. If nothing else, you can at least do stuff with your hair, I can’t. I don’t have enough hair left on my head to do jackshit with, so, you know, what the fuck do I know, right? I’ll be sure to keep an eye open for an update on your allergy test that you mentioned. Now onto the episode. Here again, we have an episode that I finish and say to myself, “I’m going to see what Jess has to say about this one. Partly because I am unclear as to how I altogether felt about the episode, and I think Jess’s perspective will help me sort that out. Also, this is one I just really want to hear Jess’s thoughts and perspectives.” I will say that one initial thought that I had was that this episode felt like two episodes crammed together, and it kind of hampered the ideas they were trying to present. And it’s a bit of a shame as the episode had interesting ideas and plot points, they just didn’t execute them as well as I thought they could have. Also, yeah, that title is quite the mouthful. Two primary issues with the episode. The first being, as you observed, the very abrupt love at first sight romance between Bones and Natira. As you stated, the episode does a good job of making you understand why Bones would make the choices that he made. Even so, the love story plot felt rushed and abrupt beyond belief. When Natira very bluntly proposes marriage to Bones, I'm even saying, “Whoa! Slow down there, lady! You don’t have to hit the gas like that! There is after all a speed limit about these types of things!” In all fairness, similar to how you described, I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of the love at first sight type plot. I'm not saying I never like plots of that nature. I'm saying that if one is to do that it needs to be done in a very organic and believable way which is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. All that said, DeForest Kelley was great with the time in the spotlight that he was given. The other primary issue is like how I see Ryan stated, the missed opportunity with Bones and his illness. Yeah, I wish that had been given more prominence than it was given. I share your displeasure of the expeditious manner in which it was resolved, in that Spock basically said, as you put it, “Oh look! They have a cure! He’s cured!” I’m watching the episode and said, “Well... that’s just lazy writing on an obscenely absurd level.” Other moments that stood out were Spock’s moment with Bones. That was, as you said, very sweet. Leonard Nimoy was excellent in that scene. You had the same reaction I did when Spock and Kirk are accused of killing Bones. I yelled, “Wait! THEY killed Bones!? Listen, lady, they’re not the ones who put a mind control/pain chip into him!” I also got a laugh over Kirk’s big dramatic speech as it was a perfect display of Shatner’s patented style of acting that they told us to avoid in theatre class. So, ultimately, I'd say you enjoyed the episode more than I did, and I’m glad to hear that. Yes, you did say in last week’s reaction that you wanted the two episodes hence to be sans sexism, racism, and/or any other isms that would incite a rant/tirade. And as you noted, one down, one to go. Now, mind you, I haven’t seen this show in some time, so I don’t recall what episode is next, but hopefully, next episode is one without the elements that drive us up a wall. Again, glad to see the episode was one you liked, and I do hope things become less hectic for you. Take care of yourself, Jess.

Josef Schiltz

Oh Jess, sorry that your sleep is all over the place. Having been through that numerously I know what it's like. Having been a sole carer does that to you. It's been years since and it still doesn't work right. I think I'm going to have to get some Nutrasleep. That has worked in the past, but I have to order it in from the States and takes a while to get here. Usually by the time it has the need has passed. I need to be a bit more organized. Like those preppers that hoard stuff up. Like the Jurassic Park shirt by the way! Very paleological. I remember a paleologist once asked an older one what he thought was the fascination was with dinosaurs. He said that the response was a little flip. "They're big, fierce and extinct!" I'm off to have some Teddy Bear's Choice Berry Tea. Just the thing to have this time of year I think! TLC Jess and Rocco.

Josef Schiltz

I think that if you have done your utmost you have to come to a point when you realize that. As analysts, we go over these things in our minds time and time again. This is the way our distinct neurology treats us. This is why 'Heaven Sent' pertains to us so strongly. It's not a time loop, it's what is referred to as a 'do loop'. Each loop is not exactly repeated as in each trip there is a very slight advance. We have, though, to come to the realization that we are 'out of the confession dial'. To attempt to analyse within that loop can no longer be generative of a different outcome and to further our analysis in that area leaves us fighting for our own sanity. We have to mentally enclose that area of our lives and close it down. It will become easier to do that, trust me on this! One of my distant cousins is also a Aspie, is in a similar position of being a carer. His mother has cancer, one of the fast track ones and he has been down a bad route when it comes to attempting to blot out his stress. What I would refer to as an anti-intellectual route. My own way of doing things has been prevention. I read books by nutritionists when I was in my teens and adopted that rather than an inevitably deteriorative way. It seems that we - in general - favour intelligence as our normative and it makes no sense to destroy it. We are almost Vulcan in our steadfastness to it. It is our strongest tool, our strength. We ARE survivors and we WILL continue to survive. We will do no harm to either ourselves or others. We have done well so far and need to convince ourselves of that despite the nagging feelings of guilt. There's that Vulcan game of building structures called Kal-toh. The concept of building structures. A useful thinking tool for someone whose life has descended into chaos and has been, through no dint of personal fault, thrust into a post traumatic phase of self-blaming guilt? In the end, we have to realize that we cannot control everything. That is out of our reach. To suppose we can, well, that way lies insanity. We don't want that! We dismiss the anthropochaotic as an ungenerative area! Engage the home walk of the confession dial. The bird has nearly demolished the diamond mountain. One more blow outta do it. You know what? That's one hell of a bird!