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Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:42 pm
by Mark
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:35 am
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Mikey wins ten laugh points.
Now I'm wondering... is there
any way to salvage this boondoggle of an episode?
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:40 am
by Mikey
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Mikey wins ten laugh points.
Sweet! Where can I spend them?
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Now I'm wondering... is there any way to salvage this boondoggle of an episode?
Just put it in the "weird miscellany" drawer with "Catspaw" and let it be what it is.
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:11 am
by Mark
That the same drawers with the space hippies, and space Nazis, and space Romans with TV cameras?
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:31 pm
by Mikey
Well, the one with the space Nazis was a good ep.
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:22 pm
by Tyyr
DeForest Kelly really did do his best to seriously act this shit out.
Makes you wonder how many takes he stood there delivering these lines with all his heart only to have Shatner or Nimoy start cracking up. "Damn it Bill would you take this seriously for one damn take!"
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:22 pm
by Graham Kennedy
I watch a lot of really bad movies - sic-fi original "Megashark Versus Crocasaurus" type stuff. I often wonder how an actor deals with being in something that is rubbish, and everyone involved knows it's rubbish. I guess there's two approaches - you can just do a minimal effort, get the paycheque and go, or you can give it your all no matter what. Kelly seems to have done the latter, and that's much to his credit.
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:51 pm
by Tsukiyumi
GrahamKennedy wrote:I watch a lot of really bad movies - sic-fi original "Megashark Versus Crocasaurus" type stuff. I often wonder how an actor deals with being in something that is rubbish, and everyone involved knows it's rubbish. I guess there's two approaches - you can just do a minimal effort, get the paycheque and go, or you can give it your all no matter what. Kelly seems to have done the latter, and that's much to his credit.
Thoroughly agreed.
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:04 pm
by Mark
Yeah, but DeForest Kelly was smart enough to know he had a good thing going in Dr. McCoy. Combine natural talant with wanting to make every performance as good as possible, and there ya go.
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:00 pm
by McAvoy
If I were to fix it. It would an advanced civilization with no dumb bimbos that needs a brain to work their master computer or something. The brains get fried over a short period of time, so they found Spock's who's brain is more.. durable. Kirk has a choice to take back his friend and destroy that civilization or leave Spock to be a slave to that culture.
Just an idea.
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:09 pm
by Mikey
I think it should be a race of epicures who need Spock's brain to make an appetizer.
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:21 pm
by McAvoy
Oh that. They did everything else. So let's do Space Zombies.
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:34 pm
by Lighthawk
Nah, space Illithid.
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:34 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Hmm, perhaps. An advanced civilization with no gender divide. Well, not
too advanced. Gotta get Spock's brain back somehow...
Argh! too many plot bunnies!
Re: SF Debris: Spock's Brain
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:46 pm
by Graham Kennedy
Also bear in mind that Kelly apparently loved doing Trek, so much so that his last words were to wish they could do another movie together.