UNCUT REACTION - Star Trek The Original Series - S2E11 Friday's Child
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This episode is somewhere in the bottom 20% for me. There are worse ones for sure, but it's just kind of a hot mess of an episode. Even Scotty sticking around after it was obviously a setup was like "we can't go back while the plot requires us to be absent Mr. Sulu". Like I say, when I do a rewatch, I rewatch everything, but this is definitely an episode to "get through".
Timothy Nikiforovs
2024-04-15 23:24:41 +0000 UTCYeah, it's a pretty big double standard considering it was acceptable for Amanda to slap Spock in the previous episode for doing his job, nobody bats an eye at significantly greater levels of violence done by women to men even today. Nobody should be hitting anybody, but I'm all about equality. Can't stand the heat? Stay out of the kitchen.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2024-04-14 22:58:03 +0000 UTCEdited by Fabien Tordjmann, who loved film theory and experimental cutting. The reduced-quality shots are the opticals, where different segments of film are combined and rephotographed together to produce a crossfade or other effects. The script, cast, and final episode were well regarded by the people involved. McCoy and Julie Newmar are very amusing, and that pained LOOK Spock gives the two of them is priceless.
deconstructionist66
2022-09-05 23:58:38 +0000 UTCI think one if things you have to keep in mind people watched this generally on at best 25 inch or smaller low def TVs. They filmed it in film with a higher resolution than the tv broadcasts. So the cuts you noticed would be much less noticable. But Now when they transfered the original to digital and cleaned it up you see EVERYTHING i never saw the buttons clearly that you see on the enterprise. In both pilots you could read the computer screens with writing. I warched Star Trek on a black white set as we didnt have a color tv. Also keep in mind modern series are like 6 episodes 10 max so your episodes are now extremely high quality. But on 26 season episodes some epusodes not just due to writing but because of time constraints budgets running out or exhaustion will be much less well put together.
Sherman Lin
2022-09-03 11:21:01 +0000 UTCAirplane (1980) parodied that slapping a hysterical woman thing brilliantly. That doctor gave her 2 slaps plus he shook her.
BURKE Wells
2022-09-03 10:34:03 +0000 UTCThis one was bad but next one is one of my favorites. Actually, the show enters a 5 or 6 episode stretch now of solid episodes.
Ken R
2022-09-03 02:43:10 +0000 UTCThe poor picture quality you were referring to always comes before a fade out fade in transition or right before they go to commercial or come back from commercial. It would be nice if they could fix that but apparently it’s not possible.
Jeremy Rickard
2022-09-02 23:42:35 +0000 UTCThis episode actually started as a show about female empowerment written by one of the few female writers on staff (who also wrote Journey to Babel) Julie Newmar’s character was an even bigger part of the story but a bunch of people kept wanting rewrites. They ran out of money to do effects for a Klingon ship so they had to cut scenes that included it and drew on a cartoon image for the one time we see it. This episode is so similar to another episode you have coming up in a few weeks that I still constantly get them confused.
Jonathan
2022-09-02 21:42:18 +0000 UTCYes yes YES!!! Monty Python! Oh my God! Josh, you are a scholar! You hit the nail on the head and I never saw that until now. I was thinking all through the endless marching scenes that it would’ve been fucking great if they’d CGI’d The Capellans with coconus in their hands, clippity clopping along. “A Klingon! RUN AWAAAY!” LOL! For me, this episode has always been a butt load of I don’t give a shit. I have more notes, told to me by the horses mouth. I’ll do it later. I have to take a nap. I’ve been spending the whole day tearing apart my theater. I took a break to watch along with you fine fellas.
Rich Cirivilleri
2022-09-02 20:14:26 +0000 UTCThe Klingons relish combat and the chance to die a glorious death, at least that is the premise it eventually grabs a hold of firmly. To simply say the Klingon ship tucked tail and ran makes no sense. If however another starship entered the sector at long range this could effect their decision to leave but we never got it. It was nice to have Bones have the knowledge of these people from being around them for months and able to speak to them but if just a few Star Fleet officers were there wouldn't he as well as they know of certain individuals better and vice versa. If only there a couple days sure you don't get to know certain people but months?... The medical syringe you guys say is McCoy's main tool is called a hypo-spray which doesn't jab the skin like a needle but somehow does the same job as a needle. There is a real one that is a prototype and works and was used in the first season finale of Star Trek The Next Generation. My favourite part was the Bones line, "I'm a Doctor, not an escalator!" Which I am certain there have been t-shirts with at least one of his "I'm a Doctor not a..." lines on them.
Brad Barter
2022-09-02 19:28:31 +0000 UTCNot one of my favorites, not even in the top 50%, but probably not one of the worst (wait until uyou get to season 3 and you'll understand). The Klingon make-up used in Errand of Mercy does not reappear, mainly due to cost reasons. They went the cheap route from this point on (budgets were cut for season 2 and 3). I had not thought of Josh's comment about how it seemed like a Monty Python film, but now having seen it again, I have to agree.
Collin Freeman
2022-09-02 19:04:07 +0000 UTCMaybe it's just me but I've never understood what's inexcusable about hitting a woman back if she started becoming violent first. It's not like he knocked her out.
Andreas Schmitt
2022-09-02 19:00:25 +0000 UTCThe title "Friday's Child" comes from a poem by WH Auden where character traits were ascribed to kids based on the day of the week of their birth. As the poem goes, "Friday's Child was full of woe."
Chas Summers
2022-09-02 16:25:58 +0000 UTCFor sure. But she wasn't acting rationally about herself or the child on any level. Inexcusable, but back then....You should find the video interview where Sean Connery talks about slapping a woman that won't shut up.
Chas Summers
2022-09-02 16:23:30 +0000 UTCYeah, this episode doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's good for a few laughs.
John Schmitt
2022-09-02 15:59:00 +0000 UTCKoochie Koochie Koo?? LOL, still gets me
Firekrys FWO
2022-09-02 15:26:10 +0000 UTCI get it was (unfortunately) acceptable between a husband and wife, but a doctor to an expecting pregnant woman?! 60s was wild.
Josh (Target Audience)
2022-09-02 13:38:18 +0000 UTCSometimes the writers forget they’re writing for people from the 23rd century. Even O.G. Catwoman can’t save this “HOT MESS”. I’m also a Arrested Development fan. Next episode clearly used the same make-up guy that worked on Prometheus.
BURKE Wells
2022-09-02 13:31:58 +0000 UTCNot that long ago, an effort was made to reproduce this show's bridge set. They were told when they were done that the one mistake was that the carpet was gray. They used a sepia toned carpet in the reproduction due to how the lighting looked in the original film.
Chas Summers
2022-09-02 13:08:36 +0000 UTCThe producers realized after this one that they screwed up and forgot the Klingons' makeup they used before. Analyzed solely for plot, this one isn't that bad. Obviously, they were leaning into using the location shooting. It also suffers from following such a densely plotted episode like Babel. It is also funny how these aliens could have created such nicely machined and deadly killing giant throwing stars but not bows and arrows.
Chas Summers
2022-09-02 12:43:05 +0000 UTCI know this will come as a shock to guys your age, but at the time this was filmed, a man slapping a woman to stop her from acting out hysterically was considered acceptable behavior.
Chas Summers
2022-09-02 12:38:12 +0000 UTCI think there is a cartoon/meme out there where they explain that they spent too much on the previous episode and had to make the costumes outof old drapes out of Rodenberry's house. Even in the 60's the costumes in this episode were suspect. I don't hate this one. It has Julie Newmar(the original catwoman) and it has Scotty's line "fool me once..." Being in the 60's you will see that there are recurring plots that comment on the coldwaar and the war in Vietnam This one loosely falls into that category. I have no problem saying I hate the next one - I look forward to you guys finding something I have missed over the years to change my mind.
Ricky Johnson
2022-09-02 12:10:40 +0000 UTCThis episode has one of my favorite music cues in TOS. When Scotty decides to leave orbit to answer the distress call. The music sells it: things just went from bad to worse.
tyranusfan
2022-09-02 11:48:49 +0000 UTC
