tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post6149296312968729040..comments2023-10-11T09:04:08.311-05:00Comments on Powered by Indifference & Focused by Caffeine: 17 to 01: Conscience of the KingVanVeldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441999455333315750noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post-38429375040583640002015-05-15T18:40:22.662-05:002015-05-15T18:40:22.662-05:00Yeah, it's creepy that it's only such a sh...Yeah, it's creepy that it's only such a short while after starting to use that sign off that she passed away.<br /><br />RE: Shakespeare, doing this has made me curious about so many other things, conventions in theater and television being just a few.<br /><br />My impression of Kodos' rule was that he came to power in a coup and then started implementing the eugenics via killing half the population.VanVeldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03441999455333315750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post-63466853053476467712015-05-15T16:34:34.379-05:002015-05-15T16:34:34.379-05:00Waitasecond! Kirk came from a colony ruled by a eu...Waitasecond! Kirk came from a colony ruled by a eugenicist? So he might be a product of eugenics?!<br /><br />Also, can't remember if soylent green was implied.SkilTaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15496366094516039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post-9038158384849949252015-05-14T21:19:29.127-05:002015-05-14T21:19:29.127-05:00PS: R.I.P., Rand.PS: R.I.P., Rand.SkilTaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15496366094516039415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35276667.post-84071321506774843972015-05-14T16:49:44.030-05:002015-05-14T16:49:44.030-05:00You mention that TV acting of the time borrowed a ...You mention that TV acting of the time borrowed a lot from stage acting, and Star Trek especially from Shakespear - kinda wish I knew more about Skakespearean tradition, because I wonder if some of the oddities in pacing and whatnot might turn out to follow Shakespearean stage directions and story structure more rigorously than Star Trek's usual. <br /><br />Didn't know about Hamlet's father Glad you mentioned the parallel with Hamlet's father:uncle::Kodos:Karidian.<br /><br />Good points about Kirk being irrational because the issue is so personal and this being a Nazi-hunt story, though I think it's to the episode's credit that they cast Kodos' Crime Against Humanity as being borne of desperate necessity rather than of monstrous ideology. <br /><br />Glad you caught how the daughter's plaintive "I'm strong" in the closing scene was related to the father's eugenic philosophy, I missed that first time around. <br /><br />Very much enjoy Uhura's impromptu songs. Could stand to have more of those folksy fill-in-the-blank formula songs casually inserted into stuff I watch. <br /><br />That other guy in their play looks just like a modern actor whose name I can't remember.SkilTaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15496366094516039415noreply@blogger.com