Re: Menagerie Theater report

Joseph Nebus wrote:


I appreciate it, even if I'm getting around to answering it
awfully late. I can't justify that; just somehow I don't see where
my week *went*.

Not to worry. I'm confident anything I post here does get read
by the five or ten people still here.

I understand ... I was awfully tempted to go, but ultimately
it came down to the Thursday screenings conflicted with my yoga
class, and the Tuesday screening I didn't have time for. I'd have
liked to have gone despite generally not wanting to do things, but
that just wsn't the right week for me for it.

I'd actually forgotten about going to the Tues showing until
Wednesday! Thursday, the digital projector was putting a
single-frame "poster" on the screen about this showing of "The
Menagerie" in "The Original Television Format." I spent five
minutes wondering if this second showing was going to be with the
original effects, but by "television format" they meant 4:3.


After the show was a "Special Sneak Preview of Season Two."
Alas, nothing that wasn't already on TV, "Amok Time," "The
Doomsday Machine," and "The Trouble With Tribbles."

Well, let's see ... Doomsday Machine rerun last weekend,
obviously; Space Seed rerun this weekend which means I can just repost
the summary I already wrote, and then ... ooh. The Alternative Factor.
Well, The Return of the Archons and A Taste of Armageddon are fine
episodes, but they're not going to show off much in the way of special
effects.

I was hoping for a bit of "The Ultimate Computer," and to have
three-on-one starship action to lord over you stay-at-homes! :)

(I wonder if this was successful enough to do again when the
Season Two HD-DVDs come out? Run UC in theaters before showing
it on TV? They'd have to double feature it with another episode,
"The Doomsday Machine"? Or "The Trouble with Tribbles", and
leave 'em laughing? Actually, those two would be the best double
feature.)

--
-Jack


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