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My thoughts after watching the pilot + three episodes:

- Damn good music. I’ve heard the intro a million times before but it’s SO GOOD

- Big “Dark” vibes (or “Dark” has big Twin Peaks vibes?)

- I have a huge crush over Dale Cooper

- Is Dale Cooper/Harry Truman a thing or is it just me

- AAAAA can’t wait to watch more!

- I am and always will be grateful to have friends who will introduce you to Cool Stuff ®

Me: *showing a baby Yoda video* a baby!!!

A friend: Your lovely baby Yoda is Satan, he mercilessly eats an innocent animalish thing

It was a happy accident that I watched this Halloween themed episode just a few days ago, so I decided to make a post since this is the season.

In the beginning of the episode the landing party, consisting of Sulu, Scotty and redshirt Jackson, goes missing on a lifeless planet Pyris VII. The Enterprise manages to beam Jackson back to the ship, but he is soon found dead. Nobody saw that coming.

A second landing party is beaming down to search for Scotty and Sulu.

6:11 of the episode:  It’s middle of the night and I watch the episode in my bed, headphones on. I had expected something horrible luring in the fog - instead I get these three plague witches. I laugh out loud.

This is the point when I start to suspect that this episode is some sort of Halloween shite. (”First broadcast October 27, 1967″ -Wikipedia.)

The random Scooby-Doo witches tell the landing party to get out of our lawn, kids. The landing party continues the search.

Fast forward: There’s a castle (spook level 1).

And a scene where Scotty and Sulu are finally found but they blink zero times (anxiety level 9).

Finally the crew meets the episode’s two antagonists: An alien wizard Korob, who looks like any crafts teacher ever in a robe. In fact he was eventually a really nice guy tho.

The other is Sylvia, former cat (everyone kept staring at the cat during the episode, which was hilarious af). She just likes to watch the world burn: here she is torturing the ship.

Sylvia is hungry for new feelings etc. in her human form. She and Kirk make out a bit (nice, clean kissing), so the captain manages to dig out the weakness of this power-hungry woman - a mf magic wand.

She gets angry and turns into a giant domestic cat, because why not. Here they are actually showing this cat, otherwise it’s just it’s shadow looming behind the corner. (spook level: 0,5)

Also here’s a proof that I am in fact 12 years old:

Back off, lady. Jim Kirk’s wand is only reserved for Spock.

The episode ends a few minutes after this lovely scene. Korob and Sylvia are now returned into their original forms (weird plant-looking creatures) and they are destroyed.

Scotty, Sulu and Bones (right, he was also turned into a mindless, unblinkable man during the episode) are back to normal, and everyone lives (except the redshirt, remember?) happily ever after until the next horrible mission.

Thank you for reading, this was Faltzu and Geekvolving’s Official Guide to Star Trek TOS: “Catspaw”, S2E07. If you really wanna know what’s happening this episode, I recommend to watch it. 

(Fun fact: Yesterday was the first time in three years when I’ve been to movies with someone else than my s/o.) I had kinda high hopes for Jojo Rabbit after I saw the trailer, and I’m glad it was, in fact, a great movie. Like what the hell?

I loved how the movie captured the shift in a little boy’s mind, deciding what is right and what is not. It was easy to laugh to the funny Hitler character in the beginning of the film, but (I guess it was) the second last scene including the imaginary Hitler just gave me chills. My friend noted that it was quite possible that the speech was taken from the actual history.

Also damn, it was so clever to use the German translated versions of pop culture songs (I didn’t even know that David Bowie had also made German versions of his songs).

Season one, check! Current thoughts:

- We really need to watch more. Please lord arrange some time for us

- Last time: “Soo this secretary woman and Andy seems to be the only happy couple without any love triangle shit?” THEN they basically don’t talk to each other for half a season

- Fav characters in order: 1) Dale Cooper (I still have a huge crush on him lol. Also I almost broke down when I saw him wearing glasses) 2) Log Lady (She’s just a big ???? but yeah she’s cool) 3) Jerry (Idk I guess I like his style)

- A lovely person commented on my last post that yes, Dale Cooper/Harry Truman is a thing, so now it is impossible to change my opinion about them being boyfriends

- * Singing the intro *

- I also feel so good that Twin Peaks might become one of those things that really will glue the people at the club together. We had such amazing conversations yesterday, and people have been talking today on our Discord something like “hey hey Twin Peaks” and that is a big leap since normally the group is kinda quiet.