A Foolish Figure

Today in my "Shakespeare:  From Stage to Screen" class I showed my students "The Conscience of the King." 

BWAHAHAH!

I enjoyed their reactions.  They actually seemed to get into it more than I thought they would.  We all sniggered a little at the (TERRIBLE) "romantic" scene on the observation deck, but overall I THINK it was a success.  I'll find out for sure on Wednesday--the class is 50 mins long, so there was no time even for brief discussion afterwards. 

Oh, the phaser effect got a laugh.  I guess I can't expect them all to appreciate 60s special effects the way I do. 

I've been watching "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Bewitched" and it occurs to me that the women in Star Trek really are a bit more...liberated?...than those on a typical 60s TV show.  (Not a big concern for me, but my thought whenever I watch either of those sitcoms is "I bet feminists HATE this!"  Hehe)


EDIT:  It is sad to me, though, that they, none of them, will fully appreciate the Kirk-Spock-McCoy scene when they discuss whether or not he should kill Kodos...if he even is Kodos.  Not only is that a classic triumvirate moment, in my opinion--you really see them play out their roles in their little tri-partite soul-society-thing (that's how I think of it, anyway...)--but it's also a really interesting way of changing the Hamlet soliloquies into not-soliloquies.

But we'll talk about it on Wednesday, and I'll try very hard not to get too fangirlish about the scene.