Kirarakim |
2013-06-18 07:53 |
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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
(Post 4727497)
I agree, he does seem underutilized, but then I think he was always the least-favorite of the three. Since most of the nerds watching sided with Spock, McCoy didn't get much support there. And the non-nerds would have picked Kirk over McCoy with Jim's two-fisted approach to dealing with aliens. (Except for the episodes where he seduced them instead. My favorite was the scene where Kirk and some alluring female alien step into his quarters for a bit, and the director then cuts to a scene where he is putting his shoes back on.)
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I don't know what that makes me because McCoy is my favorite. I absolutely adore Deforest Kelley too.
I admit I was most familiar with Spock/Kirk as a kid and I still enjoy their characters a lot but there is just something about an old country doctor.
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Originally Posted by Ithekro
(Post 4727507)
McCoy is bascially Kirk's human side and conscience. McCoy is there if the logical responce is something they shouldn't do, but Kirk needs a push to come up with another course of action.
Or for when they have a medical problem.
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McCoy is the Id (emotion) Spock the ego (logic) and Kirk the super ego (the balance of the two). I think this is one of the things that make the original series so fun for me to watch. The three characters were really an embodiment of one person.
Everyone talks about the Spock/Kirk bromance (or romance in some corners) and I am not discounting that but McCoy was definitely an important part of the equation too. I don't think the series would have worked as well without him.
In the new movies Pine's Kirk is way more emotional and impetuous than Shatner's Kirk (this I guess is because he is supposed to be young). Uhura also seems to be taken the "emotional" role away from McCoy since she is now in a relationship with Spock and has him think about his feelings.
But I think Kirk and Uhura's "emotional" sides don't work as well as McCoy's emotion in the original series. I mean McCoy can lay it on Spock and Kirk quite thick when he thought they were making a bad decision. McCoy wasn't even always right, in fact he was a lot of times wrong but he tried to make Kirk and Spock think of the human element. It goes a bit beyond "do you love me" which is what the new movies seem to focus on in terms of emotion.
edit: Just found this about the new movies:
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According to co-writer Roberto Orci, the 2009 Star Trek film maintains this trope, but swaps Kirk and McCoy:
"McCoy in a way represents for us, or represented for us, the extremes of Kirk and Spock. If Spock is extreme logic, ... extreme science, and Kirk is extreme emotion and intuition, here you have a very colorful doctor, essentially a very humanistic scientist. So he, in a way, is literally and figuratively a representation of two extremes that often served as the glue that held the trio together."
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I honestly just don't see that in the new movies or necessarily think it is even a good idea that they switched McCoy and Kirk. After all Kirk is meant to be the balance because he makes the decisions.
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