TOS s2e24 “The Ultimate Computer”

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    TOS has more vaudeville in it than Comic Book Guy would like to admit, but - and here’s a secret - that’s what makes it great.

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      Followed by no PTSD therapy. But one quick memory wipe from Bones down in sickbay and he’ll be right as rain for the next episode.

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    If I recall, by the end of “Operation – Annihilate!”, Kirk was completely unaffected by his brother and sister-in-law dying and his nephew ultimately being orphaned. That “episodic status quo-ism” really took away my suspension of disbelief. In contrast, “A Private Little War” does succeed at implying that the crew (or at least Kirk) is hardened by the missions, whereas “Requiem for Methuselah” almost lampshades how the characters (or at least Kirk) remain static.

    Also, please turn off the drop shadow on your text. It’s hard to read like that.

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      Kirk had a full grown son he didn’t give two shits about. He also didn’t want to see any of his family in the afterlife/Nexus.

      Family man is not a discription anyone used for him.

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      Much of episodic TV followed that Gilligan’s Island trope of ending on a quip, regardless of context. Especially jarring after disasters.

      The text effect is a default I can’t remove. It’s as clean as I can get it without instead formatting through imgflip or otherwise.

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        My method for putting a caption above a meme image is to type and format the caption in Google Slides and screenshot it. Then, crop the screenshot of text and use an online image merger to turn the screenshot and the meme image into one image.

        [Edit: added strikethrough] Imgflip is alright except for the downgrade in image quality. I tend to use it if I need text with a border around it to be legible over an image. The watermark is easy to circumvent by adding unused spacing at the bottom of the output image and then cropping.

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          Imgflip allows for full quality in a sub menu before posting. At which point the watermark is near invisible anyhow.