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Devil in the Dark should have been on that best episodes list.
It is, in Part 2.
I just watched "Where No Man Has Gone Before." I'm going to watch some of the classic episodes, but I don't want to watch all of them! Or too many of them. Any on that list I really need to see?
Here's my Top Ten Movies Of All Time (sorry for the capital letters, but they're sorta insisting on being there): [link]. Because I cheated, there's at least 17 movies on there.
Well, at least there's no Bresson.
What, off that best episodes list?
The City on the Edge of Forever, definitely, but it's better watched once you have some grounding in the characters. Amok Time, very important Spock episode, as is Journey to Babel. Mirror Mirror is a classic AU episode.
A Piece of the Action is silly but funny. Trouble With Tribbles, definitely. Devil in the Dark is a solid plotty episode.
Those are the ones off that list that would get my first-tier vote.
There's only three seasons of classic Trek, P-C. Seeing all of them really isn't that much of a committment.
Taraljc on LJ also had a post recently for Trek noobs, including recommended episodes.
Oh, and I missed Space Seed on that list, which is the setup for the second Trek movie.
Here's my Top Ten Movies Of All Time
Dude, I am surprised your wife even sleeps with you from all the incessant Wild Bunch pimpery.
It's like saying: "Women? Buh? Fight! Mansweat! Ahhhhh..."
If I were your wife I would totally stab you with a chopstick if I saw that list.
Go sit in a corner and meditate on your sweaty man sins and come back with a list that doesn't have Cockfighter! on it.
Have you even seen Tree of Wooden Clogs?
Are you suggesting that I'm gay for Ernest Borgnine?
I think Cockfighter is sorta romantic.
It is, in Part 2.
Oh. Um, never mind. (But it should be higher on the list!)
P-C, you should see The Way to Eden. You should also remember the thing where I'm evil.
Corwood, I can't remember -- do you read Criminal (Brubaker's comic)? I'm pretty sure I saw The Cockfighter mentioned in the backmatter in one issue. Between that and the noir-ness, it seems very you.
Never read it, but I'll check it out now.