Well, it's not as bad as the Alternative Factor from Season 1 but it certainly made an attempt to be as bad.
The pacing is a major problem and continues to be a problem with TOS. It's a bit of an endurance trail to attempt to remain engaged with the story when enduring 20 minutes of the kids shaking fists at the crew to maintain control.
I need to understand this antagonist better ---- from what I learned via watching the show it appears to be an evil alien who wants to control or kill people? Why? Because it's evil? Well, that's boring man.
I think this episode was attempting to be creepy but it was never able to capture that twilight zone/outter limits level of uneasy that it was attempting to capture with the thrall children.
The only real positive to this episode is we get some classic shatner acting in the turbolift when he realizes he is about to lose control of the enterprise.
The episode ends with the kids confronting 'evil' and it apparently just dies after it's truth is revealed? Is this the message? Confront evil? Thanks Star Trek, thanks for that insightful suggestions.
Let's move boldly forward from this one.
The pacing is a major problem and continues to be a problem with TOS. It's a bit of an endurance trail to attempt to remain engaged with the story when enduring 20 minutes of the kids shaking fists at the crew to maintain control.
I need to understand this antagonist better ---- from what I learned via watching the show it appears to be an evil alien who wants to control or kill people? Why? Because it's evil? Well, that's boring man.
I think this episode was attempting to be creepy but it was never able to capture that twilight zone/outter limits level of uneasy that it was attempting to capture with the thrall children.
The only real positive to this episode is we get some classic shatner acting in the turbolift when he realizes he is about to lose control of the enterprise.
The episode ends with the kids confronting 'evil' and it apparently just dies after it's truth is revealed? Is this the message? Confront evil? Thanks Star Trek, thanks for that insightful suggestions.
Let's move boldly forward from this one.