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-=> Mortar M. wrote to Maurice Kinal <=-
MM> Re: problems
MM> By: Maurice Kinal to Mortar M. on Wed Jul 08 2026 19:41:03
> Despite this I still will default to the tv episode simply because
> of the cheesie el-cheapo special effects.
MM> By today`s standards, but for the mid-60s, they were considered quite
MM> good, especially for a TV show with limited budget and time.
> Also it took less than an hour to resolve what took the movie more than an
> hour of overdone graphics for more or less the same plot.
MM> You can hardly compare the two formats. Movies have more time and more
MM> budget to tell one story while episodic TV of that time had to crank
MM> out a new story every week.
I have a feeling Maurice was reflecting on how boring that first
movie was. As a fan of ST for over 40 years, I enjoyed the movie, it
had some great and memorable scenes, and I`ve seen it at least 5
times. As for my negative feedback about it, I couldn`t really say more
than some of the existing broad criticisms of that particular film state.
I`ll summarize by stating my opinion that it had some scenes that were
too "extended" for my tastes... Spock`s journey into V`Ger being the
most prominent.
The other popular criticism is the recycled plot that Maurice
touched on. I seem to recall someone, somewhere had written that it
combined the plots from three different episodes.
Besides "The Changeling", the other episode in which a parallel
exists is "The Immunity Syndrome". I can`t think of any more than that
myself though.
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