Glad you got the implied background. Back then there were a lot of protests against the war (like today), with superpowers pulling strings from behind. Tyree's wife was from another group (Kahn-ut-tu) of Witch People, with special abilities, wich unfortunately (for most men) included the seductive "Catnip".
There are some interesting ideas, but the ideas that they were dealing with here about the proxy wars going on all over the place at the time between the US and Soviet Union, but it was definitely muddled with too many other ideas.
*Gives Bunny the Thermian salute and Thermian style applause* So glad you enjoyed this one. I think I watched it for the first time on RU-vid, and I recently added it to my personal video collection. By Grabthar’s hammer, what a reaction. I’ll see you this Saturday as you continue going where no Bunny has gone before.
Katara, pulling back from being the grumpy one for awhile. And Toph vastly more vulnerable than she usually is because of the sand. I bet after this she puts in a ton of work to master sandbending just so it never happens again.
You were alot of fun to listen to. I love the movie, seen it about 15 times. Best thing is you did not talk constantly. Saw some comments from people, had to turn of within 5 minutes😊
TWO BITS OF TRIVIA: - Allegedly NBC got some complaints from animal lovers who thought Tribbles were living creatures and had been mistreated during the filming of the episode (confined in the storage bin, baked under hot studio lights, etc.). - Originally, they wanted to have another appearance of Harry Mudd, but the actor was unavailable. That's too bad - it would have been even better with him involved.
You say you were unsatisfied with the end of this episode. That Kirk didn't wrap up the situation with a tidy solution, and a bow of a humorous last line as is the case for many episodes. You've been told how to interpret it as allegory to similar real world situations that have no satisfactory solution. The solution to this situation was given by Kirk in another episode where he found a people with nuclear weapons engaged in a limited war that neither side felt they could pull out of. It had been going on, paraphrasing Dr. Macoy "for century after bloody century". It also was an allegory for real world events. In that culture the leader expressed the situation in terms of his people's reasoning. His people had a high sense of social responsibility. Their deaths were reported on a computer, and the men, their wives, and their children were disintegrated so their deaths could be recorded. The people die but the civilization lives. We do the same thing with our so called limited proxy wars like in this episode titled "A Private Little War". We avoid the fall of civilization by limiting our wars to throwing our children into the disintegration machines of modern wars that go on for decade after bloody decade.. Kirk's solution to ending that bloody stalemate was to face them with the prospect of a real nuclear war. Thereby giving them "A Taste of Armageddon".
Toph is, of course, Toph. Something I like is that her personality is huge, her raw power is huge, and of course it's Earthbending. But her actual fighting style is minimalist and precise.
The TV series MASH is set during the Korean War, but since it was filmed in the 70's-80's, it was as much about Viet Nam as it was Korea. If you haven't seen it yet ... DON'T! If a short little documentary about Viet Nam made you cry, MASH will wreck you. It's my favorite show of all time. There is also a movie of the same title, but I didn't like it quite as much.
Great reaction no, it’s not beyond you. It’s just there’s no nuance here. This episode was all about in the Vietnam War. Who’s going on the same time and they were trying to end the war and try to bring the troops home. People were protesting in the street people were fighting with police turn down statues starting fires chaos the streets while it is now turned down, statues sitting fires, they were trying to show the young kids that the writers understood their position. Thanks for the fun until next time .
The music does lay it in a bit thick, but that's OK, sometimes you need that. One of the great moments is when the commissioner/companion looks at Cochrane through the multicoloured scarf, as he explains what he can show when they can leave. It is a great piece of costuming.
If Kirk arms Tyree's people, Tyree still might die. If he doesn't, Tyree WILL die. This certainly weighed into Kirk's decision, and it always seemed that certain aspects of the Prime Directive can be overlooked if the Klingons are involved.
It was never a great episode. It has the 3rd lowest score (6.8) for season 2 episodes on IMDb. It mainly remembered for the Mugato which is basically a white gorilla costume with added features. Will Ferrells character Mugatu from Zoolander was named for it. Maybe the best thing about it is a rare appearance from Dr. M’Benga whom we learn a lot more about on the Strange New World Series.
The hypospray McCoy is using is likely a jet injector. We have them IRL too. High pressure air injects whatever liquid. There is no need to change out needles with it.
I think the only thing that could have made the ending better would be if they hired the kids as technical advisors….. but I’m sure that’s would have just been too much.
You probably worked it out, but Fred was so chill because he was high the entire time. The just had to remove all references to the drug in order to get the rating they wanted.
It was a deep analogy of Vietnam. The Soviets turned the North communist and armed them to overthrow the South. The US rightly feared the destruction of democracy in Asian countries and the violent takeover like happened in Laos which was a horrible murderous genocide of its own people. So US armed and trained the South and eventually had to send troops because it was so bad. So “a private little war” was an analogy of this proxy war of the USSR and the US.
The Klingons gave weapons to the North Vietnamese, so the Federation had to arm the South Vietnamese. The Organian Peace Treaty technically wasn't violated, because the Federation and the Klingons weren't fighting. The episode wasn't resolved because when the show was broadcast, we seemed mired in a war with no resolution.
The Organian Peace Treaty was essentially the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, under which if one side launched nukes, the other side would launch all of their nukes.
