David D. LevineWe had NO idea what was coming.
SpeakerToManagers@daviddlevine
I suspect whoever wrote that synopsis still doesn’t have any idea of what came.
Chris Kendall@daviddlevine @cstross To be fair that review pretty much nails it
In Search of a Better World
Thom
Dan Howell@daviddlevine as the late, great British comedian Eric Morecambe once said: all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
Jacek Wesołowski@daviddlevine Reads a lot like a mini-review of "The Matrix" I read back in 1999 in what was then Poland's biggest-selling newspaper (a liberal one at that).
(it was a weird newspaper that would at roughly the same time run stories about satanist indoctrination in "Doom" and the inherent sexism of "Tomb Raider")
Red_Shirt_no2
jbpyke
(moved)Galbinus Caeli 🌯@jbpyke @daviddlevine perhaps Kirk here is a "space" "ship captain" ( "space" modifies "captain") rather than a "space ship" "captain" (where "space" modifies "ship").
Emeritus Prof Christopher May@daviddlevine This is the best thing I’ve read all week! Thanks for this spot of joy.
John Jackson@daviddlevine In color!
@jpjjr1961 How else could the viewers appreciate the "colored space food”?
Pete@daviddlevine They truly had no idea how much nonsense Shatner would eventually bring.
sleepy
The Evil Microwizard@daviddlevine I heard an urban legend once that a program guide repeatedly used the show description "Captain Kirk and Mr Spock beam down to an alien world, where not all is as it seems." 😅
Andrew Benedict-Nelson@evilmicrowizard @daviddlevine hey, to be fair, sometimes it was “encounter an alien ship where not all is as it seems”
Or
“Something is wrong with Spock”
@albnelson @daviddlevine I really should go through TOS and find out how often it applies. That would have been a perfect lockdown activity, in fact 😅
@evilmicrowizard @daviddlevine hey I’m pretty sure that’s a perfect activity anytime
Limey_Tank@daviddlevine @cstross Yeah…Captain Hepburn and her annoying chef.
Itxasos@daviddlevine
"Normal-eared Wiliam Shatner"
"Normal-eared Wiliam Shatner"
Oleg X 🇺🇦@daviddlevine Ah, the two genders: pointy-eared and normal-eared.
The Whore of Blahbylon@daviddlevine Imma start describing people as "normal-eared."
Alistair Cullum@daviddlevine I do like the fact that they completely spoil the major reveal at the end of the episode. “Psycho: A mentally ill motel owner dresses up as his deceased mother to murder guests in their rooms.”
@daviddlevine I’d forgotten about that brilliant review!
Ged Maheux@daviddlevine @ChrisU they really are not enough likes for this. Thanks for sharing. LLAP 🖖
Chris U@gedeonm @daviddlevine It’s great. I had to share. :)
Asakiyume@daviddlevine that episode terrified me. I’d wake up early and open the back door a crack so that if my mom came at me for my salt, I’d have a way to escape
Tony Masiello 
☮@daviddlevine well... Now we know who ended up with Frank Costanza's TV Guide collection! 😝
Ash Doyle@daviddlevine @gedeonm ah, yes. It was the colored space food that hooked me. 🤣
Jan v/d Broek@daviddlevine The Map-trap, kept me (and my parents) awake for a whole night after seeing it.
CautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🕎@daviddlevine I'm mostly curious about why they think coloured food is from space. Unless they're British, their food usually has *some* colour..
Paul Cantrell@daviddlevine @Okanogen
Of all the things this gets wrong, describing Kirk as “no nonsense” is perhaps the most laughable.
(We had a running “timed to Kirk ripped shirt” watch going for each episode of TOS)
Ailuridae@daviddlevine Wow. 1960s TV guide attaining levels of "normie" I didn't know were possible.
Travis Bickle
@travisbickles Are they eating colored space food?
toybox [de]@daviddlevine I for one like the "(Color)" addendum.
@toybox How else could the viewers appreciate the "colored space food”?
BetsyI LOVE THIS SO MUCH!
"normal-eared William Shatner" omg I'll never look at a photo of him again without saying out loud "will you look at those normal ears."
@shipscrewunscrewer How else could the viewers appreciate the "colored space food”?
run_atalanta -> beige.party@daviddlevine Obviously not the pilot. Pike in his chair will stay with me until the bitter end of memory.
@run_atalanta Nope. As with Firefly, the pilot was NOT the first episode aired.
@run_atalanta Also, the image of Pike in his chair wasn't even in the pilot (“The Cage”). That was new footage filmed for the two-parter "The Menagerie” later in season 1.
Aho@daviddlevine gosh color 😜