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Remastered: "The Menagerie, Pt 2"; Episode for the week of 12/2/06
Topic Started: Dec 2 2006, 06:33 PM (239 Views)
Swidden
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This week the second half of TOS' one and only two part episode!

Minuet, I hope you remembered to watch it this week or at least record it!*... :D :angel: :whistle:

If last week's was any indication of what we can expect, I am really looking forward to see how they handle the "cannon" sequence. I always thought that was a pretty impressive special effect for a tv program made about 1964/65. Improving on it might be a bit difficult.









(*: Hey, if I can stay up until 1 AM to watch it, the least you can do is Tape/TiVO/DVR it!):bolt:
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The Tivo is set!
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Drats, they don't have TiVo on overstock.com
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Swidden
Dec 2 2006, 06:33 PM
This week the second half of TOS' one and only two part episode!

Minuet, I hope you remembered to watch it this week or at least record it!*... :D :angel: :whistle:

If last week's was any indication of what we can expect, I am really looking forward to see how they handle the "cannon" sequence. I always thought that was a pretty impressive special effect for a tv program made about 1964/65. Improving on it might be a bit difficult.









(*: Hey, if I can stay up until 1 AM to watch it, the least you can do is Tape/TiVO/DVR it!):bolt:

Are you kidding. I spent all day setting up and having a 50th Anniversary party for my parents.

Star Trek was the last thing on my mind today. This is my first visit to the board all day.

I'll catch repeats.
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You'd have remembered if it were a ripped shirt episode... :whistle: :angel: :D ;)
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Okay, as to what I thought of this remaster...

The greater detail added to some of the scenes were certainly worthwhile. The "cannon" sequence went about as well as I hoped. The original, in comparison, certainly looks more like an animation sequence.

The one scene I thought they might do more with but left surprisingly intact was the scene on Rigel. Specifically the wide shot featuring the castle with the huge "moon' in the background.
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The one scene I thought they might do more with but left surprisingly intact was the scene on Rigel. Specifically the wide shot featuring the castle with the huge "moon' in the background.


I was also quite surpised that it was left untouched too After watching The Menagerie, I had to watch The Cage again last night. I still can't believe that The Cage was turned down. It rates right up there with some of the best Twilight Zone/Outer Limits episodes of that time.
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* By the way, I've been following all this with the episode reports, but haven't had a chance to see any of these new versions.

It sounds pretty cool; as soon as they come out on DVD I'll be scooping them up.


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The one scene I thought they might do more with but left surprisingly intact was the scene on Rigel. Specifically the wide shot featuring the castle with the huge "moon' in the background.


I was also quite surpised that it was left untouched too After watching The Menagerie, I had to watch The Cage again last night. I still can't believe that The Cage was turned down. It rates right up there with some of the best Twilight Zone/Outer Limits episodes of that time.

Yes it does rate well in comparison.

As to "The Menagerie" itself, I am particularly pleased at the difference we see in the way Spock acts from the first episode parts versus him "13 years" later. I also think it says a lot about how good of a strategist Spock could be. He comments at the point where the Mendez illusion disappears on the need for a trial just so that Kirk would be distracted long enough to not regain control of the Enterprise until after it reached Talos.
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