So... Incredibly... Sick

[thedeadlyhook]

This has got to be the worst case of flu I've had since childhood. Toys has it too. We are the house of the supremely ILL.

As a mild plus, I've gotten to watch a lot of random odd-hours television while laid up and woozy, and the discovery that TV Land plays classic Star Trek at 6:00 am has to be worth something. And nostalgic, too - the other morning, they were playing "The Man Trap," one of the first ST episodes I ever saw at age... 10, 11? (In reruns - I'm not quite old enough to have seen it first run.) I was immediately hooked, and in those days before videotape, you had to take what you got whenever it was offered - I used to comb through TV Guide looking for showings - late, early, whatever - which I would set my alarm to get up for, if need be. Yes, folks, Star Trek was LOVE.

Anyway, "The Man Trap." So bleary-eyed, Toys and I are watching this while coughing and snuffling, and we can't help but note the absolutely simmering sexual tension in this ep. The Monster of the Week, a salt-sucking vampire creature, can read your mind and take on a form that gets under your defenses, typically a member of the opposite sex.

For Sulu though, the creature didn't change to a woman. It went after him as a man.

Was Sulu's slashability always so freaking obvious, and I was just dim? Or is it just my fever talking?

Comments

[tabaqui]

Oh, the salt vampire scared the crap out of me! I love old Star Trek. We'd beg and plead to stay up Saturday nights to watch it and *promise* we'd get up for church without any crankiness the next day if we could.

That and 'The Avengers' and 'The Return of the Saint'. Wheeee!

Hope you guys feel better. This creeping crud is just knocking *everybody* flat.
*pet pet pet pet pet pet*

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear - and oh, god, that is a hilarious icon! I feel very petted. By mink! Oohh... *g*

I've seen so few episodes of The Avengers - it played so rarely in our area - and I've never seen Return of the Saint at all. I should really add those to the ol' Netflix queue. Plus Toys keeps telling me I need to see The Prisoner in its entirety. (Another one I never got to see with any regularity.)

[tabaqui]

My sister and i were gaga over Ian Olgivy, who played The Saint - there was another, older version called 'The Saint', with Roger Moore, which we never saw, and then there was also 'The New Avengers', which was pretty good, too.

But nobody tops Mrs. Peel in a leather cat suit.
:)

[tabaqui]

And! Mittens of mink are the best.
*pet pet pet*