smw@sjuvax.UUCP (Stewart Wiener) (10/09/84)
> From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) > > >>>Kirstie [Alley] was SO much better [as Saavik]. > >>>And is prettier than Robin Curtis, to boot! > >>> Stewart Wiener / St. Joseph's University / allegra!sjuvax!smw > > These two statements are at odds. Why do people want a pretty Saavik? > The very idea seems contradictory to me. She's a half-Romulan, half-Vulcan > who spent her childhood as something of an animal. WHY would she be pretty? > HOW could she? ... Could it be Stewart has a crush on Saavik? ... Naaaah! :-) You guessed it, Roger, I sure do! But only on Kirstie's Saavik. The following is not an original observation: Robin Curtis' Saavik is bitchy ("Just like your father"), holier-than-thou (the scenes on Genesis), and entirely lacking any smoldering Romulan fire beneath her Vulcan facade (deadpan: "David is dead.") Kirstie Alley, apart from her looks (and hey, why can't a wild street urchin look good once she's cleaned up? There's no reason to think either parent was particularly malformed), brought her fannish background to the role... she KNEW what Vulcans and Romulans are. Robin was directed by-the-numbers, and I think Nimoy is partly to blame for her uninteresting and insipid performance. I'm not really too fond of Kirstie Alley as a performer -- she should have made salary concessions for ST III, and she was lackluster in the TV show "Masquerade" -- but her Saavik was a character with a lot of depth, and she stole every scene she appeared in. Of course, the character Saavik still has the same depth, but you'd never know it from Curtis' performance. Curtis is just another Vulcan; she might as well be a robot, because we never see the conflict within her. So, ye-e-es, I do kind of have a crush on Saavik. But when I slavered over the first chapters of Vonda's trashy novelization, it sure wasn't Robin Curtis I was picturing. Oh, wow, imagine tracing the upswept curve of her ears with caressing lips, one hand low on her side atop her pounding heart... Saavik, oh Saavik, I'm yours, I'm yours! (Gee, when the ladies wrote Spock porn, it was considered classic fan literature... Anybody heard of "Grup," or "Spock Enslaved"?) -- Stewart Wiener / St. Joseph's University / allegra!sjuvax!smw