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thedeadlyhook) wrote2008-02-02 09:46 am
thedeadlyhook) wrote2008-02-02 09:46 am
So... Incredibly... Sick
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?
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?
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And if everyone sees the Salt Vampire in the form of what they most desire, then what does it tell us that Kirk sees it as a matronly old woman? Is the heartbreaker of the galaxy secretly longing for a mommy figure? The psychological implications are fascinating...
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The psychology of Kirk really would make for some fascinating reading. Let us also not forget his continuing trauma from being bullied at Starfleet academy.
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I wrote an essay on the psychology of Kirk. When I was 15.
I also wrote an essay on the psychology of Spock. Also when I was 15.
I kid you not!
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Seriously, I would love to read these.