Charlie’s a MANIAC! Star Trek: The Original Series “1x2 “Charlie X” Reaction! FIRST TIME WATCHING!
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11:18 Visually? Here? It conveys that Kirk has authority over Charlie. Usually its just a visual flare of the time to highlight the eyes of the actor. YOu'll notice in TOS a lot of soft focus lenses on the women. It makes them glow. It's really quite beautiful, and I wish at least one modern TV show would bring back some of those tricks.
Charlie X is one of those early TOS episodes that really grabs that "Twlight Zone" feel. TOS really has a strong first season.
In the 80s and 90s you could get camera lenses with adjustable defocus for this exact effect. I think it's seen as a bit dated now though
I am happy you have decided to watch the series from the beginning on thru. This is the best way to be introduced to Star Trek lore. Each subsequent episode reveals more about the characters and reveals the history development from our current century to theirs. I know you will love the original Star Trek universe😅😊
It still catches me off guard that Charlie X aired as the second episode. I grew up with the VHS tapes of Star Trek the Original Series, and they were all numbered in production order, so I stacked them on the shelf in that order. I didn't actually have a tape of this episode, as we only purchased about 20 in total at the time, but it would have been #8
Its interesting to think back to a time when television shows released episodes in whatever order, rather than starting with the first episode. And technically its not until episode 3 that you finally see the "first episode" (not including the pilot episode that was never really intended to air). And even that was a "second pilot" (a story in itself that I'm sure the comments section will describe after you watch it), so the first actual production episode you won't see until episode TEN. It shouldn't blow my mind, but it kinda does :P
Unlike serialized TV shows, which dominate today, episodic TV shows can be viewed in just about any order without much problem. Episodic shows dominated primetime TV in the 1950s through the 1980s, but daytime TV was dominated by serialized soap operas.
Episodic TV shows were great for syndication since it allowed the syndicators to buy only selected shows and broadcast shows in any order without worrying about the effect on a show's narrative through line since there was very little of that. Viewers new to a series could enter on any episode without having to worry about having missed prior plot development.
Although widely popular, the early serialized primetime TV shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as Dallas, Dynasty, Knots Landing, and Falcon Crest, were looked down upon by critics who derogatorily called them primetime soap operas. (Although Peyton Place was the first primetime soap opera, airing from 1964-1969, it did not spark a trend for more serialized primetime soap operas as did Dallas, which first aired in 1978.)
Hill Street Blues, which aired 1981-1987, is one of the earliest serialized TV shows on American TV that garnered accolades from the critics. The show was very influential, with many others imitating its use of handheld cameras, ensemble casts, and multiple overlapping story lines lasting for several episodes. Alan Sepinwall wrote in 2014 that it "is on the short list of the most influential TV shows ever made. Whether through shared actors, writers, directors or through stylistic and thematic complexity, its DNA can be found in nearly every great drama produced in the 30-plus years since it debuted."
@@luminiferous1960 it's not even serialization that is the issue, but putting the "we haven't quite figured things out yet" episode after proper production level episodes just feels off
You can air episodes in whatever order, but a FIRST episode should be aired FIRST.
Imagine if "Encounter at Farpoint" aired after say.... "Code of Honor" and "The Last Outpost" or "The Naked Now" and "Lonely Among Us"
@@k1productions87 When the first several episodes of Star Trek were first aired back in 1966, which is when I first watched them, the changes from episode to episode did not seem so jarring since they were aired a week apart and we had no copies to compare the current episode with a previous episode.
The design of the show was so new to us anyway, that these changes seemed very minor compared to the impact of the show's overall design. Since the show was new and we had no idea what the production order was, the week to week changes in the show seemed like just minor updates to the show that they were trying out at the beginning.
Then in the 1970s, when I watched the episodes just about every day, often twice a day, in essentially random order in syndication, if I noted the differences at all, I might just think oh this is one of the early episodes where they were trying out different things and shrug it off.
I think only with the advent of home videotapes then DVDs then Blu-Ray discs then streaming, all of which enabled binge watching and back-to-back comparisons of episodes, did fans start to find the air date order so jarring compared to the production date order.
@@luminiferous1960 I guarantee you he is going to ask about the different uniforms, the different colors, and the different design of the bridge with the next episode. The Pilot designs.
@@k1productions87 Probably, and when he does, a multitude of comments will tell him about production order vs air date order again.
I am always sad at the end. Yes, Charlie was cruel and mercurial... He was a young person who was around non-human beings his whole life. His pleas at the end are heartbreaking, even as you know this is likely the best thing to happen for the wider human race.
And that's what makes Trek great. Even a dangerous being like Charlie is given his humanity.
To be fair, anyone with unlimited power facing zero consequences would probably act similarly, esp as an adolescent.
A good followup would be the excellent 1961 Twilight Zone episode, "It's a good life. "
Oh yes, and the lighting... The narrow beam aimed at the eyes is a Hollywood drama technique that goes way back. Same with showing women with a softened lens, since tack sharpness is not flattering. The cheap way was a thin film of vaseline on a filter, or a specially made soft focus filter. Chrisnielsen pointed out that some lenses had that feature built in and adjustable.
Did you know the shirt you’re wearing should be green? It was green in the show but showed up gold on film
1. When I was a kid my siblings, friends and I would get together and watch this after school and this was one of my top 5 episodes. Mostly because even as a middle school boy, I had a huge crush on Yeoman Rand/Grace Lee Whitney.😍😋😈
2. Robert Walker Jr./Charlie was a 26-year-old playing a17-year-old
3. This is the only episode to feature a gym/training room on the TOS Enterprise.
4. The first of a few TOS episodes ending with divine intervention.
I mean who doesn’t have a crush on her 😂
@@WillTalksMovies I was 11 years old.
There were a few continuity errors in the early episodes. Kirk and MccCoy have standard wardrobe variants (McCoy's is short sleeved tee shirt looking "scrub") - besides - Did he change shirts in the eleevator? - they somehow filmed McCoy on the bridge in the regular shirt - in the close up he's in the tee-shirt - and then he's back in his regular unifrom.
If you're watching both TNG and TOS, keep in mind that the second TNG episode is a sequel to one of the first season TOS episodes ("The Naked Time").
Hey there. This is NOT a spoiler, but... you are watching these episodes in air-date order. The next episode you will watch was aired as the 3rd episode, but it is actually the 2nd pilot episode for the series. Because of that, some things will look a bit different as things changed between the pilots (yes, Star Trek had two pilots) and the regular production episodes. Please understand that the changes are for that episode only. NBC should have never shown that episode as the third episode... it only caused confusion. It is a great episode though... you will enjoy it, and it is the episode that sold NBC to pick up the show for the 1966/67 season. And again, thank you for watching the ORIGINAL and NON-REMASTERED episodes. I will always love the old original practical effects!!!
I prefer air date order personally
"Nah, Kirk... You're Kirk. The rules don't apply to you." -This is a common perception on Kirk (which also spills over onto Shatner by some amount, given his remarkably long life and successful career.) But, as you'll probably learn, the reality regarding Kirk and women, is more complicated than the oversimplified "Kirk-the-horndog" image.
Two important details to know: First, Kirk wasn't always the ••James T. Kirk•• that we know. He had to MAKE HIMSELF into the person we're watching now. An episode that airs later in Season One, informs us that at Starfleet Academy, the younger Kirk could not even do something as "Kirk-like" as standing up to a bully who was continually targeting and tormenting him. Kirk began as "one of us," nerdy - socially awkward and unsure.
Second, no, Kirk CAN'T "have" any woman he wants. If you listen carefully to the dialogue when Kirk has his "man-talk" with Charlie, he says about Yeoman Janice Rand: "The years (the age difference between Charlie and Rand) are wrong, for one thing. And there are other things."
What did Kirk mean, "There are other things?" It means that there is a special, unspoken attraction (and relationship) between Jim and Janice. It's not acted upon, nor spoken of between them, but it's there, and Jim and Janice both know it. Kirk can't act on it, both because regulations don't permit a Captain to have a personal relationship with a subordinate under his command, and also, because being the Captain (an extraordinary protector of crew life on his vessel of exploration) is so important to Kirk that he would do nothing to jeopardize that, even if there were no regulations. (At brief moments in various later episodes, when under an unusual influence, or momentarily forgetting his own standards, we see how much that affects Kirk later.)
So, when Kirk answers to Charlie, " ••EVERYONE•• Charlie, me too!" Kirk is being 100 percent truthful about himself. It's one of the great moments in the original series.
As you are seeing you can watch out of order. You can skip over episode 2 of tng and watch it with the connected TOS episode without it causing issues of being confused.
Hello! This episode was not a favorite of mine. But after seeing your reaction to it, I have a new appreciation for it. Interesting bit of trivia: Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) actually did record quite a few albums of music. In fact, at the start of her career, she was a singer and dancer for the Duke Ellington Orchestra!
Well I’m glad I can help you enjoy it abit more :)
Omg man you are in for a long ride with this one, nearly all modern sci-Fi plots start here.good luck.
I think that "nearly all modern sci-Fi plots start here" is an overstatement. I think Star Trek TOS has to share the origin of much of later TV sci-Fi plots with The Twilight Zone, which first aired in 1959, well before Star Trek TOS.
The Twilight Zone heavily influenced not only modern sci-fi, but also modern horror.
As the Den of Geek puts it The Twilight Zone "lives and breathes in every Treehouse Of Horror episode on The Simpsons, every twist in an M. Night Shyamalan film, and every perceptive sci-fi story with a moral conscience...The assumption that sci-fi TV equals bleeping robots, tin-foil-wrapped space-rays and kitsch adventurers battling tentacled aliens is long dead, but it took The Twilight Zone to land the first blows. Serling launched his CBS series at a time when the names most commonly associated with science-fiction on television were Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. The Twilight Zone demonstrated that television could tell out-of-this-world stories every bit as meaningful and intelligent as those being written by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. By aiming its stories at a literate, adult audience, and using the genre to pose complex moral questions, Serling blazed a trail for smart sci-fi television to follow. Today, dramas like Westworld, the revived Battlestar Galactica, or Alex Garland’s 2015 film Ex Machina are the subjects of lengthy essays on their philosophical and existential themes. Rod Serling’s work made TV audiences and broadcasters take sci-fi seriously. In her 2013 memoir, daughter Anne Serling recalls her father’s words: “A Martian can say things that a Republican or Democrat can’t.” It’s a neat introduction to his use of metaphor and allegory in the post-war US. Serling’s thoughtful morals and liberal values were disseminated through the disguise of sci-fi and horror fantasy...One sci-fi series in particular that followed The Twilight Zone would go on to break boundaries and spread similar messages about social justice and acceptance: Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek. In 1975, Roddenberry performed a eulogy at Rod Serling’s funeral, at which he praised Serling’s “deep affection for humanity” and “determination to enlarge our horizons by giving us a better understanding of ourselves.” Enlarging our horizons was a job performed by both men."
@@luminiferous1960 oh absolutely, there’s so much to think about but in terms of popular culture, including dr who, this is where popular sci-fi- hits its stride
@@htershane "Hits its stride" and "start here" are two very different things. In the latter case, which was what your original comment said, in determining where something starts, precedence matters, and The Twilight Zone first aired years before both Doctor Who and Star Trek.
Also, I did not mention Doctor Who in my previous response since I was talking about American TV sci-fi influences, and Doctor Who did not air in America until 1972, well after both The Twilight Zone and Star Trek. However, since Doctor Who, which predated Star Trek, was a very big early influence on TV sci-fi in Britain, and since British TV sci-fi certainly influenced the development of American TV sci-fi starting in the 1970s when UFO, Space 1999, and Doctor Who came to America, it's influence certainly deserves acknowledgment.
@@luminiferous1960 well, nearly every sci-Fi trope I see in any show now I first saw in ST, I’m aware that the origins of a lot of those plots lines can be referenced as far back as man putting pen to paper but the first time I saw evil doppelgängers, fantasy as reality, time travel paradoxes, racial allegory etc etc in the same running programme was ST, nothing is going to change that🤷♂️
@@htershane OK, history starts with your personal history. Got it.
Adolescence is tough, right? Nichelle Nichols was an accomplished singer and dancer. She got to showcase a little bit of her talent outside of communications.
What is interesting about your apparent approach is that you will see some TNG episodes with parallels or ties to TOS episodes you have not yet seen. Not to discourage it, but your experience will be different from mine. Of course, some folks started on TNG and only later discovered TOS. As long as you can keep them straight jumping back and forth, this will allow you to make progress satisfying both subsets of fans. Interesting approach.
Are you watching all Trek series at the same time? Not the best strategy. Do them in release order like “Target Audience” is doing.
@@FallenHellscape so my current plan is TOS Wednesdays and TNG Fridays?
the audio is very low on the episode and very high on you. When I turn it up to hear the episode your voice is way too loud.
Thank you for letting me know I will look into it for future episodes:)