The interesting and amusing aspect of TCM is that both Kirk and Spock get to flirt with their designated love-interests. The supposedly logical Spock falls for the blonde, the rather simple Vanna. She is an adult, yet talks like an 11 year-old. Even worse, she needed Spock and Kirk's arrival and subsequent interference in the planet's socio-political order for the penny to finally drop. And yet, Spock who is supposedly drawn to her "intelligence" fails to realize how daft she is!
Spock isn't displaying any logic whatsoever when he simply assumes off-hand that Vanna would not condone the actions of the Cloud City folk if she only knew how unjust they were. Purely based on her physical appearance(!) Spock makes the daft assumption that she must be morally sound. Of course, it turns out he was wrong; Vanna agrees with the bad guys that the enslaved people below are not only inferior but not even deserving of better living conditions.
Spock brings out his illogical inner do-gooder - yet again - when he tells McCoy that it's impossible for the Cloud people and the enslaved to be of different intelligence levels. "They belong to the same species, originated from the same planet hence they must be of similar evolutionary intellectual levels, that is biological law", he says. As if nature was ever "programmed" to create equality (by some imaginary divine "progressive" council). It isn't. Nature isn't "intentional" about anything and has no purpose or goal. Even Spock-in-love should know this.
The great finale has unintentional comedy. Kirk failing to defeat a guy twice his age, in a brawl, plus all the other cheesy nonsense that transpires in the cave scenes.
The dialogue involving the planet's inhabitants is stilted, generic, theatrical, corny and B-movie-like.
Spock isn't displaying any logic whatsoever when he simply assumes off-hand that Vanna would not condone the actions of the Cloud City folk if she only knew how unjust they were. Purely based on her physical appearance(!) Spock makes the daft assumption that she must be morally sound. Of course, it turns out he was wrong; Vanna agrees with the bad guys that the enslaved people below are not only inferior but not even deserving of better living conditions.
Spock brings out his illogical inner do-gooder - yet again - when he tells McCoy that it's impossible for the Cloud people and the enslaved to be of different intelligence levels. "They belong to the same species, originated from the same planet hence they must be of similar evolutionary intellectual levels, that is biological law", he says. As if nature was ever "programmed" to create equality (by some imaginary divine "progressive" council). It isn't. Nature isn't "intentional" about anything and has no purpose or goal. Even Spock-in-love should know this.
The great finale has unintentional comedy. Kirk failing to defeat a guy twice his age, in a brawl, plus all the other cheesy nonsense that transpires in the cave scenes.
The dialogue involving the planet's inhabitants is stilted, generic, theatrical, corny and B-movie-like.