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James T. Kirk: The Anti Womanizer, Season 1 (Part 1)

Mar 24, 2011 14:26

Captain James T. Kirk: The Anti-Womanizer, Season 1 (Part 1)
by dark_orion

So, I'll admit it--before I started watching TOS, I thought the same things about Kirk that so many other people do. I believed him to be a testosterone-driven skirt chaser who couldn't keep it in his pants and thought women were only good for sex and eye candy. I believed it... ( Read more... )

pairing: kirk/spock, character: james t kirk, commentary, fandom: star trek: tos, picspasm

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eliyes March 24 2011, 19:53:36 UTC

Yay! Thank you for putting this together! I am going to link to this repeatedly.

dark_orion March 29 2011, 19:54:56 UTC

Glad you like! Link away. :)

the_physicist March 24 2011, 22:51:00 UTC

I like the picture you chose where he's not wearing his shirt XD

hehehe! Very well done, cheers!

dark_orion March 29 2011, 20:05:39 UTC

Oh, yeah, gotta love the Jim hip. It's such a rarely seen creature. ;)

bigmamag March 25 2011, 03:58:49 UTC

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dark_orion March 29 2011, 20:20:29 UTC

Dude, I am so excited--I've never gotten a keyboard smash before! This is awesome...and yet somehow a little creepy. Mummyface!

Quite honestly, I didn't notice the mirroring in "The Enemy Within" until taking notes for this essay--I usually skip the scenes with Rand because, well, it's Rand and I don't particularly like seeing Kirk as an evil rapist (though he is smokin' hot stepping out from behind the divider--with eyeliner!)

I actually have a little bit of a hard time watching "Dagger of the Mind," since I. Can't. STAND Helen. (At least not until the end, when she turns buttkicking and finally wises up that making Kirk love her is wrong, wrong, wrong.) She is presumptuous to the point of being insubordinate and that is so not cool. And she was mean to Spock--I find I judge many characters by how they treat Spock.

Kirk is actual respectful in rewording that in a nicer way and subtly calling her 'the technician McCoy sent along with me'It's just one of the many things I love about Kirk, that he has that kind of diplomatic finesse ( ... )

aldora89 March 25 2011, 05:26:05 UTC

It's almost as if Kirk's sexuality has been split in half--Bad!Kirk attempts to rape Rand, and Good!Kirk flirts rather outrageously with Spock (at least, I'm not really sure how to else to explain Kirk's body language and facial expressions in the scene)--which is rather strong evidence to indicate that Kirk is bisexual.

YES. GOD YES. THIS HAS BEEN MY HEADCANON FOR MONTHS NOW. I've even written some (perpetually unfinished) fic rehashing that episode with this view in mind.

As for the similar camera approaches... veeeery interesting! That whole scene is just so outrageously flirty, it makes me wonder if people in the 1960s had, you know, eyeballs.

On to part II!

dark_orion March 29 2011, 20:29:23 UTC

That whole scene is just so outrageously flirty, it makes me wonder if people in the 1960s had, you know, eyeballs.
After having watched TOS as many times over as I have, I often wonder the same thing, often many times an episode.

And I would like to state on the record that I would love to read fic dealing with the duality in "Enemy." I can say with certainty that I will fangirl all over it.

Thanks for commenting!

ariadnechan March 25 2011, 06:46:50 UTC

i made the rewatch with other partners and if you read about this the script was about Helen Noel, but for a mistake it says Johansson.

Also after this i thought a lot that women make this player thing in motion.
They fantasize about Jim, and misinterpreted Jim's flirting nature, that lead to
I slept with Kirk and was awesome!!!

i really think most of the legend is part Jim's charming, flirting personality and part women fantasizing about him

asmallcrime March 28 2011, 03:04:07 UTC

That's a really good point, that maybe some of those 'rumor's about how promiscuous Jim was is just wishful thinking on the part of some RL females. LOL! :3

dark_orion March 29 2011, 21:00:08 UTC

I think you're right--I'd certainly want to get with that. I think there's also an element of wish fulfillment for the male fans--they want to get with all those pretty ladies, so they imagine that Kirk does, then live vicariously through him.

dark_orion March 29 2011, 20:32:29 UTC

i made the rewatch with other partners and if you read about this the script was about Helen Noel, but for a mistake it says Johansson.
Thanks for telling me. That explains so, so much about that scene. I'm glad to have the confirmation, because it means my radar is properly attuned :)

i really think most of the legend is part Jim's charming, flirting personality and part women fantasizing about him
Definitely, with some male fantasy thrown in--some men want to get all the girls, like they think Kirk does, so they project that behavior onto Kirk and then live through him vicariously.

Thanks for the info!