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So while it was kind of a bust on movie night due to file errors, I didn't notice any of you people there anyway unless you use totally different account names. Better luck next week I suppose.
In the mean time, about a good week and a half ago I made a (very) drunken challenge to @GethN7 to give the unremastered The Doomsday Machine a shot. Much to my surprise, he agreed. His review is text, and in kind of a commentary format but if you're familar with SFDebris, the commentary part shouldn't be a big deal. Overall I found it to be a good read. Figured I'd cross-post it here since he was a good sport with me, and its a good review at any rate. He noticed some stuff it took some people multiple watches to notice.
https://gethn7.blogspot.com/2020/01/star-trek-original-series-doomsday.html
To show how much of a geek I am, here are my few, rather minor, criticisms of it:
My primary criticisms are that he missed three, admittedly very subtle details. First is a simple piece of trivia: This is the first time any of the Jerry Fielding score in the series appears, and it was so effective it was used many times later as danger music later on.
Secondly, Matt Decker's slow reaction as he goes from flat calm to terror and then agony as he is immolated. In actual studies of suicide survivors, particularly ones who chose slower deaths such as leaping off a tall structure, they report almost precisely the same set of feelings Decker goes through as he flies into the maw of the Planet KIller. A seemingly cheesy scene that reality has since vindicated. Though I am of course happy with his praise of William Windom's performance.
Thirdly, and this one is just my own fan theory, but I think the Constellation in itself is a character just as much as the Enterprise. It has its own, unique score whenever it shows up, a sad kind of mournful tone fitting of a ship as beaten and battered with a dead crew. And that last music cue as Kirk changes course to fly into the Planet Killer himself is so mournful precisely because now, not only is the ship's crew dead, her Captain is dead as well. Think about how many times Kirk said things like "I only have one woman, her name is the Enterprise." One imagines Decker treated his ship the same way.
Downvote this post straight into the ground if you think this idea was stupid and don't want to see any more of it. Otherwise I think I can get him to do more.
In the mean time, about a good week and a half ago I made a (very) drunken challenge to @GethN7 to give the unremastered The Doomsday Machine a shot. Much to my surprise, he agreed. His review is text, and in kind of a commentary format but if you're familar with SFDebris, the commentary part shouldn't be a big deal. Overall I found it to be a good read. Figured I'd cross-post it here since he was a good sport with me, and its a good review at any rate. He noticed some stuff it took some people multiple watches to notice.
https://gethn7.blogspot.com/2020/01/star-trek-original-series-doomsday.html
To show how much of a geek I am, here are my few, rather minor, criticisms of it:
My primary criticisms are that he missed three, admittedly very subtle details. First is a simple piece of trivia: This is the first time any of the Jerry Fielding score in the series appears, and it was so effective it was used many times later as danger music later on.
Secondly, Matt Decker's slow reaction as he goes from flat calm to terror and then agony as he is immolated. In actual studies of suicide survivors, particularly ones who chose slower deaths such as leaping off a tall structure, they report almost precisely the same set of feelings Decker goes through as he flies into the maw of the Planet KIller. A seemingly cheesy scene that reality has since vindicated. Though I am of course happy with his praise of William Windom's performance.
Thirdly, and this one is just my own fan theory, but I think the Constellation in itself is a character just as much as the Enterprise. It has its own, unique score whenever it shows up, a sad kind of mournful tone fitting of a ship as beaten and battered with a dead crew. And that last music cue as Kirk changes course to fly into the Planet Killer himself is so mournful precisely because now, not only is the ship's crew dead, her Captain is dead as well. Think about how many times Kirk said things like "I only have one woman, her name is the Enterprise." One imagines Decker treated his ship the same way.
Downvote this post straight into the ground if you think this idea was stupid and don't want to see any more of it. Otherwise I think I can get him to do more.
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