and now for something completely different

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In pursuit of academic excellence, I watched the ST:TOS episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" today. (Tribbles make excellent exponential function problems.)

And, uh. I was kind of charmed. It was so silly! It's been years and years since I've watched TOS, long before I developed any taste. All the ST I've seen in the last few years, mostly early TNG with clips of DS9 or Enterprise here and there, has been so dreadfully, laughably earnest. Whereas this knew precisely how silly it was and ran with it. I didn't even hate Kirk! Plus I have a weakness for 60s TV, with the over-bright sets and the stiff non-acting.

So I might be watching some more?

(In slightly related news, can anyone point me to a Firefly icon that incorporates Zoe's line, "We live in a spaceship, Dear"? I want a Joss-related explicitly SF-themed icon.

ETA: Check out the totally nifty icon next_to_normal made me! Isn't it spiffy?)

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[lettered.livejournal.com]

I love TOS. Imo, it's one of the best shows there is.

I hope this doesn't ping your opposite thing. *frets* I love Kirk so much. Non-ironically.

If you want to cherry-pick eps, I'm your woman for recs!

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Aww. No reason to fret! I like variety in my flist, see? *g*

If you want to cherry-pick eps, I'm your woman for recs!

Ooh, yay! I may take you up on that. Just at the moment I seem to be starting at the beginning. (Given how the pilot went, I might get back to you fairly soon...)

[lettered.livejournal.com]

You know what you should do, if you're not rarin' to go, is come over here some time at the start of next year, and watch them with housemate and I. We love TOS. We put on TOS plays. We hosted a TOS panel.

I was fretting because I want you to think TOS is AWESOME, not because we have different tastes. Though Trouble with Tribbles is actually a rather different tone than the ones I think are best. A bit sillier than I usually like, but TOS has scads of silly.

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Ooh! That would be SO MUCH FUN! It's so rare that I get to be introduced in person to shows by people who already love them. So yes, I would love to see if we could do that. Um, PM coming your way.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

I watched all of TOS a couple of years back, not having grown up with it except as very general background noise. I really enjoyed it - as you say, quite aware of its own folly, and enjoying it.

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It's fun! I wasn't expecting it to be fun. And the datedness is old enough that it's just another part of the atmosphere.