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| Remastered: "The Menagerie, Pt 2"; Episode for the week of 12/2/06 | |
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| Swidden | Dec 2 2006, 06:33 PM Post #1 |
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Adm. Gadfly-at-large; Provisional wRench-fly at large
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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!*...
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!)
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| fireh8er | Dec 2 2006, 08:20 PM Post #2 |
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I'm Captain Kirk!
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The Tivo is set! |
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| Sophie | Dec 2 2006, 08:31 PM Post #3 |
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Drats, they don't have TiVo on overstock.com |
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| Minuet | Dec 3 2006, 12:17 AM Post #4 |
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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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| Swidden | Dec 3 2006, 12:28 AM Post #5 |
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^^^ You'd have remembered if it were a ripped shirt episode...
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| Minuet | Dec 3 2006, 12:52 AM Post #6 |
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| Swidden | Dec 3 2006, 02:30 PM Post #7 |
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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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| fireh8er | Dec 4 2006, 01:03 PM Post #8 |
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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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| Franko | Dec 5 2006, 02:09 AM Post #9 |
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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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| Swidden | Dec 5 2006, 03:20 AM Post #10 |
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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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