Star Trek: The Original Series - City on the Edge of Forever' 1x28 FULL LENGTH Reaction & Review
Added 2024-04-26 12:38:54 +0000 UTCI never believed in the 'no win' scenario...until now. The one to beat as the greatest ToS episode yet.
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No matter how many times I see this, it never gets less impactfully heartbreaking
Dani Gould
2024-07-13 01:17:45 +0000 UTCKirk and Spock (Shatner and Nimoy) tend to be fans favorites. For myself, while I do really love Nimoy's Spock (and while I don't love Kirk, it's not like I dislike the character, far from it). It was always Kelley's McCoy that I connected to the most of the TOS characters. Of course put Nimoy and Kelley sparing in a scene together and I was in heaven. And yeah this episode as a whole even not judging in comparison to the material of its time, absolutely is stellar. Just across the board great material (even with my one tiny quibble, and its tiny).
Mark Wood
2024-04-30 02:10:19 +0000 UTCI was so appreciative of the absolute passion everyone brought to this episode with DeForest crushing his scenes. "I could've saved her" That delivery will haunt me forever.
Fury Roll
2024-04-29 22:37:17 +0000 UTCNow this episode is GREAT. It's still in my top ten of all Trek to this day. Though I truly never liked the rice picker scene. As even as a kid I thought that was utterly unbelievable. And if a kid in the late 60's thought that there was no way I thought an adult in law enforcement in the 30's would fall for it, even for a second. But outside of that short moment you have a serious issue, presented, and treated by the standards of tv at that time in a very serious manner. And the fact that they didn't end the episode with a bridge scene of the characters having a light hearted moment (something very common for TOS, even in many cases when it wasn't appropriate to the story material) makes this ending hit home even harder. And as someone who generally has never loved the character of Kirk or the acting of William Shatner, he absolutely nailed this episode.
Mark Wood
2024-04-28 04:05:43 +0000 UTCPlease don't lump older viewers who were able to watch TOS when it aired. Being one of them I think TOS has many classic episodes (something that Discovery has not yet done), it also has several episodes that I find worse than anything Discovery or Picard has put out. Neither Discovery or Picard have an episode I put in the bottom 50 episodes of Trek. But in fairness Discovery hasn't produced a single episode I put in the top 65 episodes of Trek either. What works for you is going to be shared by some but it's not all. Same with me. Hell My whole family is fans to Trek starting with 60's TOS, and every single one of us has different likes and dislikes. What works for one, may not work for the others. And all of us have followed Trek through its interactions, and that family has grown to include most of the spouses, most of the kids, most of the grandkids. Out of my parents and Siblings not a single one of us agree on favorite series, favorite character. or favorite episode, and the reverse of all that is also true. Hell my spouses favorite episode of DS9 is Meridan. That should be grounds for divorce right there.... And please, please don't kid yourself for a minute about the action level of TOS. They didn't have the means to do elaborate fights, or FX or camera moves. It wasn't something that was possible for them. But they sure included a ton of physical fighting and action scenes that could be accomplished with the shooting means and budget of the day. If they could have, and that was popular for its time, they absolutely would have. And TOS actually has a ton of action in it. It's just not elaborate. It's one of the most action heavy Trek shows. Now perhaps due to the episode of length of 52 or so minutes it didn't seem like it (versus the 45 down to 41 minutes for the Berman era to streaming era). But they had a lot of fights. Now I do admit that now that I am significantly past middle age, I can no longer track fast moving shots like I could when I was younger. So on a biological level versus a pure aesthetic level that does bother me now with the last 10 years or so of Trek.
Mark Wood
2024-04-28 03:42:33 +0000 UTCI've been thinking about this episode since I've watched it. Told my kids they have to see it and I'll watch it with them ASAP. I'll never forget this story...for the very reasons you mentioned. I couldn't agree with you more.
Fury Roll
2024-04-27 13:12:14 +0000 UTCRegarding your last point, from someone who was raised on TOS, this is QUINTESSENTIAL Star Trek. It's why us older fans are so unimpressed with Discovery and Picard (S1 S2)... we're looking for a show about discovery and mystery, and HEART, not just phasers and explosions. This IS what made Star Trek great.
Michael Petersen
2024-04-27 05:09:28 +0000 UTCRemember this episode in Star Trek III : The Search for Spock, when Kirk and Bones are watching the Enterprise's destruction. Kirk: My God, Bones... what have I done? McCoy: What you had to do, what you always do. Turn death into a fighting chance to live. When you put these two together, it means so much more. He did the same thing ... let his true love die so everyone can survive.
Michael Petersen
2024-04-27 04:52:59 +0000 UTCIt won awards for a freaking reason. Also, in a "how far we've come" moment, they had to fight HARD to get "Hell" in at the end there.
Micah Spiese
2024-04-27 00:39:03 +0000 UTC
