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Hollywood has always managed to remain beyond scrutiny. Movies may come and go in a fever of unconverted nitrate; actors and actresses can succeed in wiping themselves out at a tender age, but there will always remain HOLLYWOOD—an unsympathetic, unmoving monolith which attracts people like moths to light, people without identity and purpose who are then promised a lot of things they're never going to get.
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For technical superiority, the third season wins hands down. The color is the best, the camerawork is tbps, and sequences in every episode simply are handled with more professional cate. I've been overlooking the monsters in these episodes, and that's the real clue. The best episodes are the ones with monsters ("The Savage Curtain," "Devil in the Dark," etc.) cuz that's when the writers ain't trying to be too dippy and symbolic. That implies MEANING vbut the best thing bout Star Trek is the ACTION. And you get action in the first show of season #3 that outdoes any episode of Gunsmoke. Yup, the Enterprise crew (that is, the fools that beam down in this one) gotta fight sofne real western heroes in "Spectre of the Gun." It's all an illusion, of course. (Ain't that what sci-fi is all about, dodq?) And in "Plato's Stepchildren" (featuring midget Michael Dunn taking time off from his Wild, Wild West chores), there's plenty yahoo action, too, with Kirk and Spock doing acrobatics and jumping round on all fours acting silly (doing the utmost humilialting antics c^pt pissing on each other) cuz their brainwaves are being manipulated by these Greek meanies. And best of all, in "The Way to Eden," +he hippies take over the Enterprise, and Mr. Spock even jams with "em on his Vulcan harp (he being him and all).
