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* {{Narm}}: A few times in the episode, when Red Alert is called, the camera zooms back and forth on one of the red lights. It looks really out of place.
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* {{Narm}}: A few times in the episode, when Red Alert is called, the camera zooms back and forth on one of the red lights. It looks lights as an ActorAllusion-based ShoutOut to ''Series/Batman1966'' (which also starred Gorshin). Unfortunately, it instead ends up looking really out of place.place for the show.
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** The ending features Lokai then Bele running to the transporter inter-cut with shots of a burning city. Neat in theory, but the way they suddenly act winded looks like they're more flopping about the halls after a few drinks than an act of pure hatred.
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* {{Narm}}: A few times in the episode, when Red Alert is called, the camera zooms back and forth on one of the red lights. It looks really out of place.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lokai is supposed to lose sympathy on the basis he killed innocent people in his rebellion. While that would be the case, the problem is this is said by [[UnreliableExpositor Bele]] who is still shown to be an apologist for the oppression. Since everyone else on the planet is dead, we're not entirely sure if he killed innocent people or if they were oppressors that Bele saw as innocent because they shared his views. Bele claims Lokai killed children, but we only have his word that he isn’t making that part up.[[note]]Would you trust a white police officer from the 1950s who claimed a black civil rights protestor did this?[[/note]]
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lokai is supposed to lose sympathy on the basis he killed innocent people in his rebellion. While that would be the case, the problem is this is said by [[UnreliableExpositor Bele]] who is still shown to be an apologist for the oppression. Since everyone else on the planet is dead, we're not entirely sure if he killed innocent people or if they were oppressors that Bele saw as innocent because they shared his views. Bele claims Lokai killed children, but we only have his word that he isn’t making that part up.[[note]]Would you trust believe a white police officer from the 1950s who claimed a black civil rights protestor did this?[[/note]]
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lokai is supposed to lose sympathy on the basis he killed innocent people in his rebellion. While that would be the case, the problem is this is said by [[UnreliableExpositor Bele]] who is still shown to be an apologist for the oppression. Since everyone else on the planet is dead, we're not entirely sure if he killed innocent people or if they were oppressors that Bele saw as innocent because they shared his views. Bele claims Lokai killed children, but there is no evidence that he isn’t making that part up.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lokai is supposed to lose sympathy on the basis he killed innocent people in his rebellion. While that would be the case, the problem is this is said by [[UnreliableExpositor Bele]] who is still shown to be an apologist for the oppression. Since everyone else on the planet is dead, we're not entirely sure if he killed innocent people or if they were oppressors that Bele saw as innocent because they shared his views. Bele claims Lokai killed children, but there is no evidence we only have his word that he isn’t making that part up.[[note]]Would you trust a white police officer from the 1950s who claimed a black civil rights protestor did this?[[/note]]
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lokai is supposed to lose sympathy on the basis he killed innocent people in his rebellion. While that would be the case, the problem is this is said by [[UnreliableNarrator Bele]] who is still shown to be an apologist for the oppression. Since everyone else on the planet is dead, we're not entirely sure if he killed innocent people or if they were oppressors that Bele saw as innocent because they shared his views.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lokai is supposed to lose sympathy on the basis he killed innocent people in his rebellion. While that would be the case, the problem is this is said by [[UnreliableNarrator [[UnreliableExpositor Bele]] who is still shown to be an apologist for the oppression. Since everyone else on the planet is dead, we're not entirely sure if he killed innocent people or if they were oppressors that Bele saw as innocent because they shared his views. Bele claims Lokai killed children, but there is no evidence that he isn’t making that part up.
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** Well-intentioned as it is, the episode can be pretty cringe-inducing with its portrayal of both sides of the racial divide as being equally responsible for the hatred between them, even as it also clearly portrays one race as having put the other under horrible oppression. The Watts riots were still a recent memory at the time, but at our current remove from that, it can easily come off as putting undue blame on black people in their fight for equality. Granted, tying in to the Watts riots context, the real problem is that it's simultaneously trying to drop a big ol' aesop about racial-based conflict between heavily armed powers having a terrible risk of leading to global extinction -- i.e., it was trying to comment on the ever-present US–Soviet tensions and the not-even-decade-old Cuban Missile Crisis -- but the obvious white/black thing muddles that part of the message.
** The deceptively subtle difference between Lokai and Bele (which Kirk and Spock only noticed when Bele had to point it out) rarely represents the visual ethnic differences of the real world. But it may still serve to demonstrate how complete outsiders (non humans for example) might view human racial differences.
** Well-intentioned as it is, the episode can be pretty cringe-inducing with its portrayal of both sides of the racial divide as being equally responsible for the hatred between them, even as it also clearly portrays one race as having put the other under horrible oppression. The Watts riots were still a recent memory at the time, but at our current remove from that, it can easily come off as putting undue blame on black people in their fight for equality. Granted, tying in to the Watts riots context, the real problem is that it's simultaneously trying to drop a big ol' aesop about racial-based conflict between heavily armed powers having a terrible risk of leading to global extinction -- i.e., it was trying to comment on the ever-present US–Soviet tensions and the not-even-decade-old Cuban Missile Crisis -- but the obvious white/black thing muddles that part of the message.
** The deceptively subtle difference between Lokai and Bele (which Kirk and Spock only noticed when Bele had to point it out) rarely represents the visual ethnic differences of the real world. But it may still serve to demonstrate how complete outsiders (non humans for example) might view human racial differences.
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* ValuesDissonance:
**ValuesDissonance: Well-intentioned as it is, the episode can be pretty cringe-inducing with its portrayal of both sides of the racial divide as being equally responsible for the hatred between them, even as it also clearly portrays one race as having put the other under horrible oppression. The Watts riots were still a recent memory at the time, but at our current remove from that, it can easily come off as putting undue blame on black people in their fight for equality. Granted, tying in to the Watts riots context, the real problem is that it's simultaneously trying to drop a big ol' aesop about racial-based conflict between heavily armed powers having a terrible risk of leading to global extinction -- i.e., it was trying to comment on the ever-present US–Soviet tensions and the not-even-decade-old Cuban Missile Crisis -- but the obvious white/black thing muddles that part of the message.
** The %% **The deceptively subtle difference between Lokai and Bele (which Kirk and Spock only noticed when Bele had to point it out) rarely represents the visual ethnic differences of the real world. But it may still serve to demonstrate how complete outsiders (non humans for example) might view human racial differences.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lokai is supposed to lose sympathy on the basis he killed innocent people in his rebellion. While that would be the case, the problem is this is said by [[UnreliableNarratior Bele]] who is still shown to be an apologist for the oppression. Since everyone else on the planet is dead, we're not entirely sure if he killed innocent people or if they were oppressors that Bele saw as innocent because they shared his views.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lokai is supposed to lose sympathy on the basis he killed innocent people in his rebellion. While that would be the case, the problem is this is said by [[UnreliableNarratior [[UnreliableNarrator Bele]] who is still shown to be an apologist for the oppression. Since everyone else on the planet is dead, we're not entirely sure if he killed innocent people or if they were oppressors that Bele saw as innocent because they shared his views.
