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Old 11-30-2016, 10:43 PM
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Sorry, stuff has been happening and I keep neglecting this rewatch. I thought "Miri" was good but could have been better. A crazy idea in the teaser -- "a duplicate Earth!" -- that catches the attention, but was probably just to minimize SFX costs and never went anywhere at all. The mystery that followed was better.

One thing I noticed near the beginning was in an overhead distance shot, when the landing party splits up to investigate the town they've beamed into. Shatner just kinda waves his arm over his head to indicate they should head down different streets, and it doesn't look like any gesture you'd actually make in that situation. But this was '60s TV, made for tiny CRT sets, so he probably had to make a big gesture for it to be seen by viewers.
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