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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Sub Rosa (1994)
This was a GREAT episode
Something I've always hated about Star Trek, since the ORIGINAL pilot, where Gene Rodenberry's wife played the First Officer, was Rodenberry's predilection for having female characters who were supposed to be brilliant, strong, and independent, but....were all carrying a torch for a man that...sigh...they'll never, ever have.
Number One (the First Number One from the FIRST pilot), in love with her captain.
Then Rodenberry's wife again, as Nurse Chapel, in love with Spock.
Then Deanna Troy in love with Riker, who was (and this is saying something) a bigger horndog than Kirk ever was. OH! And don't get me started on the Troy/Worf romance. Worf actually went to ask Riker PERMISSION to date Deanna! Are you KIDDING me?
Here's a news flash, boys (because I'm guessing it's 100% males who've written these awful reviews of this episode):
If a guy I'm "dating" ever has the nerve to go ask a guy I used to "date" for permission to "date" me, guess what? Them two can jolly well go "date" each other, 'cause I ain't no damn pink slip for a car that they can pass between them with a dollar bill and a notary public seal.
yes, this episode showed Beverly enjoying herself - a lot - and often. Women's sexuality is dismissed and subjugated and forbidden and looked on askance in the US's Puritan-centric society.
Women aren't supposed to succeed, in any area, even their own sexuality. Don't believe me? Look at the champions at the Brasil Olympics these past two weeks: they were women, but their men (husbands, fathers, coaches) got all the credit for the women's incredible accomplishments. One woman didn't even get her NAME mentioned when she medaled - she was headlined as "the wife of a Chicago Bear"!
Well, tough, boys. Real men support real women and their interests. Beverly is a real woman, with real feelings - including sexual ones. Too bad you don't like seeing a woman enjoy herself.
Brava (that's right, NOT BravO) for this episode. Loved it. So did most women Trek fans, but y'all don't really want to hear that, do you?
I feel sorry for the women in your lives.
If you don't like this episode, don't watch it. Watch the violent ship- and civilization-destroying ones. We don't complain when you watch those; in fact, we also enjoy them. So stop maligning a good episode just because it doesn't focus on someone with your same equipment.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Anchor (2009)
Loved this episode!
This script was excellent and realistic, and played out very well. Since I work in hospitals, I unfortunately see the result of hate-motivated race crimes all the time.
I'm glad SVU finally addressed the growing problem of the followers of the hatemongers that do encourage frightened people to hurt "others" who aren't WASPs. I'm amazed that the other reviewers found it implausible that there are crazed followers of ultra-conservative talk show hosts that commit horrendous crimes. They should try working in an E/R just one Saturday night.
I'm not saying that there should be restricted speech for any one with any view, but we should all be more aware of the people that take these hatemongers too seriously. Good for L&O producer Dick Wolfe for exposing these cowards who hurt others.
The Twilight Zone: I Sing the Body Electric (1962)
A Classic, sentimental and precious
This was such a beautiful, special episode that it stayed with me for years. And it was such lovely story that years later it was made into a special one-hour movie starring Maureen Stapleton, called "The Electric Grandmother".
Very touching, I can't believe all these other comments about how it was flat and not very well acted, I think this episode was just marvelous.
Not a scary episode, like some of the other old TZ episodes (like the one where the old lady in the wheelchair was getting crank calls on stormy nights, or where the kid could wish you into a cornfield, or where Talky Tina the doll would come kill the evil stepfather), although I did appreciate those other episodes for their uniqueness, as well.
Safe to watch with your kids, it won't scare them, and I have to recommend it, as someone who deals with the griefstricken in my work, as a great show to help people start addressing their grief, which usually includes - and usually starts with - anger.
Sounder (1972)
Nothing political about it
This is a great movie. It's what you call a slice of life, and the life that's investigated is that of a desperately poor, horribly downtrodden African-American family in Depression-era Louisiana. Love it for what it is.
When I was watching this in the movie theatre for the first time in 1972, I was seated with my other high school friends behind 3 rows of a Southern Baptist Sunday School class, that was amply chaperoned by about 2 adults for every 5 children. Near the beginning of the film, as the family and Ike are passing a clapboard church that has a white congregation, David asks his father why black and white people go to different churches when God is the same God to everyone.
Ike pipes up and says once, when he was in another town, he accidentally stumbled into a white church on a Sunday morning, and was lucky to get out alive. So he asked God, "why did fellow Christians practically try to kill me just for coming to worship You with them?" And God replied to Ike, "Son, at least you got INSIDE a white church - I've been trying to do that for 2000 years!!" And with that, the entire 3 rows of Southern Baptist Sunday School, children and adults, stood up and walked out of the theatre! The truth hurts. This is a truthful beautiful movie. So glad I stumbled upon it today - just as Nathan Lee was coming home. Sigh.
Gunsmoke: P.S. Murry Christmas (1971)
You forgot Patti Cohoon!
Patti Cohoon also played one of the orphans. She played Molly, the little sister of Candy Pruitt (played by Bridget Hanley) on the second season of Here Come the Brides.
So all in all, the group of seven orphans was made up entirely of Hollywood pros! Fun to see them all together when they're young. Erin Moran's wig was abysmal, what, they didn't want one more brunette orphanette? And how funny that Jodie Foster had the least amount of lines. Still, if you notice, she had the best presence - was most "in the moment", most believable as an orphan child.
Just happened across this ep this morning....what a treat!