So this was the actual pilot episode. The one that got aired, anyway. Which is why everything all of a sudden looks and even sounds different.
The story is solid scifi. A little bit too close to Charlie X as we deal again with a human having superpowers. I think Lockwood really did well in portraying the arrogance and how he felt about the "normal" humans. Of course there is some sort of romantic interest with Dr. Dehner and a fistfight at the end. Those things were dictated by the studio.
Was it, in hindsight, a better pilot then the one that didn't air ? The storie goes that the studio feard the first one was to complicated and intellectual for the audience back then. This one's more down to earth. I like both and who knows what might have happened had "The Cage" aired. Maybe there would be no Star Trek, maybe there would be no Capt. Kirk.
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So this was the actual pilot episode. The one that got aired, anyway. Which is why everything all of a sudden looks and even sounds different.
The story is solid scifi. A little bit too close to Charlie X as we deal again with a human having superpowers. I think Lockwood really did well in portraying the arrogance and how he felt about the "normal" humans. Of course there is some sort of romantic interest with Dr. Dehner and a fistfight at the end. Those things were dictated by the studio.
Was it, in hindsight, a better pilot then the one that didn't air ? The storie goes that the studio feard the first one was to complicated and intellectual for the audience back then. This one's more down to earth. I like both and who knows what might have happened had "The Cage" aired. Maybe there would be no Star Trek, maybe there would be no Capt. Kirk.