Good trek often promotes a bit of self reflection or gaining some new insight into the human/life condition. I like the overall message of the episode about how we need to harness and control the negative parts of our being but not totally eliminate them.
Shatner gets plenty of room in this episode to give a 'big' performance and it's a lot of fun to watch him really lay into the evil kirk performance. I noticed the camera work / makeup work in this episode helping to elevate the differences between the two kirk halves. With star trek's rigorous shooting schedule I have a feeling that camera work took a backseat most of the time but figured it was worth pointing out since it was noteworthy in this episode.
I would have liked to had more time with evil kirk attempting to sway the crew but clearly Spock is way too smart to let that go on longer then 1 minutes.
I loved the scene of Spock describing the burden of command to Kirk. Juicy dialogue.
Shatner gets plenty of room in this episode to give a 'big' performance and it's a lot of fun to watch him really lay into the evil kirk performance. I noticed the camera work / makeup work in this episode helping to elevate the differences between the two kirk halves. With star trek's rigorous shooting schedule I have a feeling that camera work took a backseat most of the time but figured it was worth pointing out since it was noteworthy in this episode.
I would have liked to had more time with evil kirk attempting to sway the crew but clearly Spock is way too smart to let that go on longer then 1 minutes.
I loved the scene of Spock describing the burden of command to Kirk. Juicy dialogue.