From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: jphalt@gmail.com   
   Subject: Re: The Slaver Weapon (TAS): my review   
      
   On Sunday, September 25, 2011 10:55:37 AM UTC-7, Rik P wrote:   
   > > Rating: 10/10.   
   >    
   > Although I'm enjoying watching TAS one episode at a time I don't think   
   > I can give any episode a 10 so far.  The half-hour format and limited   
   > (though graphically imaginative) animation just can't seem to deliver   
   > a knockout.  To give a ten I'd have to grade on a curve, and I guess   
   > I'm not big on grading on a curve.  And that music keeps getting stuck   
   > in my head.   
   >    
   I am grading on a curve, for exactly those reasons.  The limitations of both   
   the length and the animation make it feel unfair to compare this to the 1-hour   
   live action programs, so I've adjusted the curve a bit.  "Yesteryear" and "The   
   Slaver Weapon" show a level of accomplishment above most of TAS, to a similar   
   degree that "The City on the Edge of Forever" or "Amok Time" were above most   
   of TOS.  As TOS episodes, they'd probably be "8's" or "9's."  But given the   
   limitations, they get an extra little nudge.     
   If you want to make it all equal, just mentally subract 1 from any score "6"   
   or higher. :)   
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