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False Face, who had only appeared in the comics once, made his TV debute in the Batman episode "True or False Face" on March 9, 1966. ("True or False Face", Batman, TV, Event)
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The Bells of Notre Dame (Reprise)
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
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Star Trek: The Animted Series 50th Anniversary Episode Review
Episode: Mudd's Passion
Season: 1
Episode: 10
Stardate: 4978.5
Original airdate: November 10, 1973
Written by: Stephen Kandel
Directed by: Hal Sutherland
Music by: Yvette Blais and Jeff Michaels
Executive producers: Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott
Studio: Filmation Associates
Network: NBC
Series created by: Gene Roddenberry
Cast:
Captain James T. Kirk (voice by William Shatner)
Mr. Spock (voice by Leonard Nimoy)
Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy (voice by DeForest Kelly)
Ursunoid Female Miner (voice by Nichelle Nichols)
Lt. Hikaru Sulu (voice by George Takei)
Eng. Montgomery Scott, Arex, Human Miner, Ursunoid Male Miner (voices by James Doohan)
Nurse Christine Chapel, Lora, M'Ress (voice by Majel Barrett)
Guest star:
Roger C. Carmel as Harry Mudd
Synopsis:
The USS Enterprise enters the Arcadia Star System in a mission to seek for the interstellar con artist, Harcourt Fenton Mudd. As the ship approaches the planet Motherlode, Mr. Spock reports to the Captain Kirk that the probabilty of finding “an old friend”, Harry Mudd there is very high.
As Kirk and Spock are beamed down to the planet's surface, they found Mudd selling crystals he claim that work as a liquid love potion to a group of heavy metal miners. Kirk tells Mudd that he is under arrest for fraud, illegal drug manufacture and swindling. Mudd refuses to give up because Motherlode doesn't recognize Federation law.
To deceive the miners into buying the “love crystals” from him, Mudd gets the help of a lizard-lake alien. A Rigelian Hypnoid, who has a hypnotic ability to make believe that she is a woman in love with Harry Mudd. Spock uses his phaser to reveal the true nature of the creature. To escape the angry mob of the planet's miners, Mudd gives up to Kirk and Spock uses his phaser again to dig a trench as a barrier while they were beamed up to the ship again.
Once Harry Mudd is beamed up to the Enterprise and while he is receiving medical treatment from Nurse Christine Chapel, he told Kirk how he escaped from the android planet they met the last time (happened in The Original Series episode, “I, Mudd).
After Mudd watched the interaction between Spock and the nurse, he decided to take advantage of Chapel's feelings as part of his escape plan. Mudd claims to Chapel that the liquid from the crystals brings strong friendship between two members of the same sex and romantic love between two members of opposite sexes. He offered Christine some of his “love potion crystals” for her to test on herself rather than a laboratory.
As the nurse opened the brig to receive the crystals and almost fall fainted by the reaction of the “love potion”, Harry got the chance to steal Chapel's ID card and the device to open himself the brig. Then Christine went to Mr. Spock's office to give the medical report on Harry Mudd. She tried to approach Spock in a lovely fashion, but he doesn't respond to her kindness the way she wanted.
While on the bridge, the captain gives orders to set course to a desert planet on a exploratory mission.
Mudd takes the escape route from the brig to a computer center where he made changes to Chapel's ID card. And when he was ready to went to the shuttlebay, the nurse intercepts him, to complain about the crystals of love. On the melee, Mudd take Chapel captive and both took a shuttle to the desert planet and some of those crystals fell thru the air conduct system.
On the bridge, everybody is amazed at Spock's reacton to the kidnap of the nurse Chapel. It seems that the “love potion” works. Kirk and Spock went to the transporter room to rescue Christine on the planet. As soon as the vaporized liquid of the potion runs thru the conducts, everyone of the ship's crew began to feel its effects. Even Kirk take a breath of that vapor.
In the planet's surface, Mudd and Chapel had a surprise encounter with a rock monster. Kirk and Spock intercepted Mudd and together tried to fight the monster but their best efforts with their phasers are made in vain. And then, another rock monster appeared.
Kirk had an idea, to give the potion crystals to one of the monsters. After a moment of hesitation, Mudd gave the crystals to the captain and he throws them to one of the rock monsters to be swallowed by. It seems it works, one of the monsters is fighting with the other, in that moment, the group takes the chance to escape from the planet by beamed up to the Enterprise.
Back into the ship and under the influence of the potion, Mudd confesses most of his recent felonies. Spock offers his help to the nurse but she refuses. It seems to be that a side effect of the potion is a moment of hate after a moment of love. Harry Mudd has to be sent to a rehabilitation center.
Fascinating Facts:
This is the third story of Harry Mudd in the Star Trek universe. The other two were in The Original Series episodes, “Mudd's Women” and “I, Mudd”. From the first and second season respectively. All those Mudd's stories are written Stephen Kandel.
This is the third time a relationship between Spock and Chapel is established. The first time, it was in the first season episode, “The Naked Time” and the second time in the third season episode “Plato's Stepchildren”.
Along with Mark Lenard as Sarek and Stanley Adams as Cyrano Jones, Roger C. Carmel were the only three guest star roles who both performed their characters in both the original and the animated series.
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Great Star Trek Rewatch - The Animated Series S1
Originally posted on Twitter 8 January 2021 - 11 January 2021
Star Trek: The Animated Series Season 1 is up next in my Great Star Trek Rewatch. As with ENT, DSC, STX, and TOS, mini-reviews will document my progress.
Beyond the Farthest Star: Immediately establishing the creative possibilities the animation format affords, this is a solid re-introduction to our live-action heroes. The alien's pleas at the end are truly pitiful and sad. 7/10
Yesteryear: The single best episode of TAS, bar none. Tightly scripted and well acted, it shows how TAS could be more mature and complex than its other cartoon contemporaries. 10/10
One of Our Planets is Missing: A nice callback to TOS with Bob Wesley, this episode is otherwise reminiscent of “The Immunity Syndrome.” Again, the animated format allows for expanded vistas and areas of the Enterprise we never got to see on TOS. 7/10
The Lorelei Signal: Uhura and Chapel get their moment in the proverbial center seat, but this episode is let down by the sexist reinterpretation of the Sirens from Homer’s epic. 5/10
More Tribbles, More Trouble: A direct sequel to a TOS classic, featuring the original Cyrano Jones himself, and the return of Koloth (sadly, not voiced by William Campbell), written by David Gerrold, this is a solid TAS entry with classic TOS energy. 8/10
The Survivor: A poignant love story crossed with Romulan intrigue outweighs the abrupt tonal shift of the tag, and the cliché of having Carter Winston’s fiancée coincidentally aboard the Enterprise. A great vocal performance by Ted Knight adds to the score. 7/10
The Infinite Vulcan: Walter Koenig’s script really takes advantage of the animated format: giant clones, plant-based life forms, etc. I’ve always had a soft spot for this one, from childhood. 7/10
The Magicks of Megas-tu: Besides providing Swear Trek with nigh-limitless material, this episode has a fairly provocative denouement. No other mid-70s animated show would tackle God, the Devil, and Salem in 25 minutes. Magic being real is inconsistent with TOS, however. 6/10
Once Upon a Planet: A sequel to TOS “Shore Leave,” we learn more about the mysterious planet, and Uhura gets some things to do besides operating the communication console. Kirk talks down yet another computer. I’m not a fan of “Shore Leave,” so I’m not high on this outing. 5/10
Mudd’s Passion: Harry Mudd on TOS is a mixed bag: expertly performed (here, once again by the late Roger C. Carmel), but gross and misogynistic. While I applaud bringing Carmel and writer Stephen Kandel back, I don’t like this one, except for its camp value. 5/10
The Terratin Incident: Only in animated format could our heroes be convincingly shrunk. This episode establishes that the transporter can reverse or cure most maladies, something seen again in TAS, and then several more times in the Berman era. 6/10
The Time Trap: Shades of “Day of the Dove,” wherein our heroes must work with the Klingons to get back to our reality. Wisely, the Bonaventure is more or less retconned out in First Contact. The starship graveyard and Elysian Council are great concepts. 7/10
The Ambergris Element: Another planetary disaster story so soon on the heels of “The Terratin Incident” feels repetitive. While it’s fun to see the aquashuttle and the scouter gig, I’m not sure what the point of this one was. At least it embraces the animation format. 4/10
The Slaver Weapon: The only official crossover with another franchise (Larry Niven’s Known Space) in Trek’s long history. A solid script and interesting backstory is only held back by the half-hour runtime. 8/10
The Eye of the Beholder: Shades of “The Cage,” though the unaired pilot did more with the criticism of incarceration than this TAS installment. It’s ultimately forgettable, which is an even worse fate than being memorably awful. 3/10
The Jihad: A problematic title for an episode that most closely resembles the excellent late TNG two-parter “Gambit.” Again, excellent use of the animated format, but constrained by the brief runtime. 5/10
And with that, Season 1 of TAS comes to an end in my Great Star Trek Rewatch. Final score: 6.25/10. Highest score(s): “Yesteryear.” Lowest score(s): “The Eye of the Beholder.”
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“Star Trek” 88 (1973)
Mudd's Passion, written by Stephen Kandel.
Roger C. Carmel as Harry Mudd.
The Spock-Chapel relationship is a key element of this story, and Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett) drives much of the action in the first half of the episode.
As with previous Mudd scripts this is a comedic outing. There are some very funny moments. The best is probably McCoy's line: "If the Enterprise had a heart, I'd save her, too."
My 787th episode of Star Trek, out of 893.
8/10
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“It is ironic that the adventure in this episode is erased from everyone’s memory. For when I began to watch it I realized I had forgotten it as well. With most episodes I haven’t seen in a long time I usually remember the plot in the first five minutes, this time the only thing I recognized was Tchar. I think the episode was a victim to the structure of only being a half-hour plus commercials cartoon show. Once the plot was explained there wasn’t much time for anything else to happen. It was too bad because the show started our strong and the team that was assembled was neat; however everything was too quickly resolved.”
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LUCKY STIFF
1988
Lucky Stiff is a musical by Stephen Flaherty with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens based upon the 1983 book The Man Who Broke the Bank in Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth.
It was the first produced collaboration between Flaherty and Ahrens, who went on to great success with Ragtime (1998), Once on This Island (1990), Seussical (2000) and other hit shows.
The musical takes place in England, Atlantic City and Monte Carlo. The time is now, or very recently.
Downtrodden English shoe salesman Harry receives the unexpected news that he has inherited a fortune from his late Uncle Anthony, on the condition that he takes Anthony’s dead body on a special trip to Monte Carlo. If Harry fails, the money will go to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn. However, also hot on the tail of Uncle Anthony’s money is Rita, Anthony’s lover with whom he embezzled $6 million behind her husband’s back. And hot on Rita’s trail is her brother Vinnie, who has been blamed for the crime.
‘LUCKY’ PRODUCTION HISTORY
Lucky Stiff was created and first performed off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons in April 1988, winning the Richard Rodgers Award. The show starred Stephen Stout, Julie White, Stuart Zagnit and Mary Testa.
The musical was next produced at Maryland’s Olney Theatre in May 1989, starring Evan Pappas, winning the 1990 Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical.
A 1994 studio cast recording included Pappas, Judy Blazer, Testa, Jason Graae, Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, Paul Kandel and Patrick Quinn.
In 1994, the musical had its British debut in the midlands, and in 1997 it had a West End production starring Frances Ruffelle, Paul Baker, and Tracie Bennett.
In October 2003, it was presented as part of York Theatre's Musicals in Mufti concert series, starring Zagnit, Testa, Malcolm Gets, and Janet Metz.
A feature film version of Lucky Stiff premiered at the 2014 Montreal World Film Festival. It stars Dominic Marsh, Don Amendolia, Nikki M. James, Jason Alexande, Mary Birdsong, and Dennis Farina.
THE ATLANTIC CITY CONNECTION
In a prologue, the chorus sets the scene in a song titled “Something Funny’s Going On”:
ALL (sung): Something funny’s going on
And it isn’t very pretty.
This is how it all began,
With the murder of a man.
Bang!
RITA shoots HARRY (spoken): Oops!
ALL (sung): In Atlantic City, New Jersey.
After opening scenes set in England, the action shifts to Atlantic City, New Jersey, home of Rita LaPorta, whose late husband was manager of an (unnamed) Atlantic City casino.
SOLICITOR to HARRY: “Due to an unfortunate accident, your Uncle, Mr. Tony Hendon of Atlantic City, New Jersey, has passed on. Apparently, casino managers do quite well in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In US dollars, Mr. Witherspoon, a currency I find highly distasteful, your Uncle left you...six millions dollars!”
Rita is presented as the typical New Jersey Italian-American mob wife in the style of Carmella Soprano in “The Sopranos” or Angela DeMarco in Married to the Mob. Rita is extremely nearsighted, but luckily, her brother Vinny Di Ruzzio is an optometrist at Atlantic City Optometry.
VINNIE to a PATIENT: “Is this your first visit to Atlantic City Optometry, Mr. Loomis?”
A production at University of Southern Oregon included a poster for the business. The poster gives the address as Baltic Avenue in Atlantic City. The real road was immortalized in the game Monopoly! Since it is the cheapest property on the board, we can assume Vinny’s practice is not exactly catering to an upscale cliental.
Rita barges into her brother’s office brandishing a newspaper. In the film version, the newspaper masthead reads Atlantic City Bugle. This is a fictional newspaper. Atlantic City Press was (and is) the newspaper of record in the shore town.
Rita enlists her brother’s help in tracking down the heart-shaped box of diamonds she stole. Off they go to the south of France, leaving Atlantic City behind. The city by the sea is mentioned again during the play’s climactic ending.
RITA, pointing a gun at ANNABEL: “Where is that heart-shaped box?”
ANNABEL: “It’s...it’s in Atlantic City!”
DEAD UNCLE TONY, confessing: “I knew that bullet that killed Luigi was meant for me. I owed the guy. So I came up with a plan, fast. I planted my own obituary in the Atlantic City papers so people would think I was dead.”
‘LUCKY’ / AC NJ TRIVIA
Atlantic City was not included in the original book, which is set exclusively in Europe. It was the innovation of Lynn Ahrens to ground the show in the United States before moving the action to the Continent. Las Vegas being further afield, Atlantic City it was!
Flaherty and Ahrens returned to Atlantic City as a setting in Ragtime. Click here to read about it!
The film cast includes several prominent actors from New Jersey: Jason Alexander (Livingston) and Nikki James (Summit), as well as Don Amendolia (Woodbury), Mary Birdsong (Long Beach Island), and Wesley Taylor (Elizabeth). Stage performers from New Jersey include Stuart Zagnit (New Brunswick) and Judy Blazer (Dover).
Although Lucky Stiff has not to date been performed on Broadway, it has had several New Jersey community, college, and high school productions.
The first time the musical was heard at the Dramatists Guild workshop, the authors were told to start again from scratch. The original piece wasn't funny enough or silly enough. Stephen Flaherty says that there are basically two completely different scores for for the show; before, and after the workshop. Annie Golden played Annabelle in the workshop.
Ahrens found her copy of Butterworth's novel at sale of old books from the Pierpont Morgan Library. Interestingly, the Morgan Library figures prominently in the climax of Ragtime, another F&A musical.
The character of Annabelle Glick was originally named Annabelle Smith.
The song "Times Like This" was written to replace another song called "I Wouldn't Waste My Time" that was deemed too sad. The song "Times Like This" is featured on Christiane Noll's album A Broadway Love Story.
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2023 In Memoriam Part 39
Bishop Jean-Charles Thomas, 93
Piper Laurie, 91
Bill Turner, 79
Bishop Tod Brown, 86
Dick Bielski, 91
Suzanne Somers Hamel, 76
Bishop Dimitri Sakachas, 84
Dr. Jorge Guillén, 86
Geri Joseph, 100
Steven Weisberg, 68
Bishop Robert Camilleri Azzopardi, 72
Carol Berman, 100
Edward Bleier, 94
Tom Rychlec, 89
Prof. Franz Stanzel, 100
(William) Tony Husband, 73
(Walter) Roger Brown, 73
Jaymee Joaquin, 44
Dave Puddington, 95
Sumanthiran Navaratnam, 98
Gerry Penner, 89
Ed Winceniak, 94
Giambattista Cescutti, 84
Gerry Cranham, 94
Pete Ladd, 67
Bobi, 31
Corby Adams, 83
Joan Evans, 89
Richard Gardner, 78
Stephen Kandel, 96
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TREKMATCH! # 410 - Star Trek's "I, Mudd" vs 1978's Superman: The Movie
SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE
There's a planet full of climate deniers that winds up exploding except for one baby sent across space and time to little ole Earth where he gets some superpowers. Which superpowers you ask? All of em! Luckily he gets raised by a couple nice people instead of some royal jerks or whatnot, and grows up to be a superhero for truth, justice, and the American etc! Uh, part time. Christopher Reeve is perfect in it, and it holds up 40 plus years later as one of the best superhero movies ever made. I'm not sure the time travel stuff at the end works - like that's one of his powers now? And if he goes back in time to save Lois does that mean he lets all those other people die in Lex Luthor's disaster?
GRADE: A
STAR TREK - "I, Mudd"
The Enterprise is hijacked by an android who takes them back to his homeworld to introduce the ship to king of the androids, gasp, Harcourt Fenton Mudd! Well, not so gasp actually since we see the episode's title before we find out Mudd is behind everything. The androids actually wind up being in charge and it's up to Kirk and pals to foil their plans with some good ole non sequitur goofs. Too bad that doesn't really mess up computers- I feel like my computer is always the one not making any sense to me.
GRADE: A
Victory to Superman, tying things up 205-205!
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The Court of Miracles
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
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Star Trek: The Animated Series 50th Anniversary Episode Review
Episode: The Jihad
Season: 1
Episode: 16
Stardate: 5683.1
Original airdate: January 12, 1974
Written by: Stephen Kandel
Directed by: Hal Sutherland
Music by: Yvette Blais and Jeff Michaels
Executive producers: Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott
Studio: Filmation Associates
Network: NBC
Series created by: Gene Roddenberry
Cast:
Captain James T. Kirk (voice by William Shatner)
Mister Spock (voice by Leonard Nimoy)
Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy (voice by DeForest Kelly)
Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu (voice by George Takei)
Engineer Montgomery Scott, Sord, Tchar (voices by James Doohan)
Guest stars:
Em/3/Green (voice by David Gerrold)
Vedala, Lara (voices by Jane Webb)
Synopsis:
A religious artifact has been stolen and the security of our galaxy is at stake. Without knowing the purpose yet, the Captain, James T. Kirk and his First Officer, Mister Spock had been chosen by the Vedalan –the oldest space-fairing race known-- on a special mission.
The USS Enterprise is set in orbit at the Vedala asteroid where a meeting is going to be held. Kirk and Spock are right now at the transporter room where the Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu and Engineer Montgomery Scott are ready to beam them down to the place of the gathering.
At the asteroid's surface, there are a group of aliens of different races. The Vedala –a female feline-like one-- is going to address at those who are reunited. The first one to be introduced is Tchar, an alien that resembles a golden bird who is the hereditary prince of the Skorr and Master of the Eerie.
The next ones are Sord, a powerful reptilian; Em/3/Green, an insectoid who is expert lock-pick and thief; and Lara, a female humanoid who is a great hunter with a flawless sense of direction.
The Vedala told Spock that he was chosen for his analytical mind and scientific expertise, and Kirk for his leadership and adaptability.
Tchar takes the word to explain the group the purpose of the top-secret mission. On anicient times, the Skorr were a race of great warriors who had an advanced military technology and the capacity of breeding vast armies rapidly. All of that changed because of a religious leader whose name was Alar. He turned the Skorr into a peaceful and civilized race.
Before his death, the brain patterns of Alar were recorded and put on a piece of indurite sculpture. It is the Soul of Skorr. The theft of that piece has a racial fury to the extent of preparing a war against the whole known galaxy. The Skorr has the capability of breeding as much as two hundred billion warriors in just two standard years.
A real danger, the government of the Skorr fears. So the affair is kept in secret.
The Vedala located the art of carving of the Skorr in a planet that has very hostile environmental conditions such as constant earthquakes, gravity shifts and tidal waves. Also, the temperature varies from 20 kelvin to 204 above. Previously, three expeditions tried to recover it an all of them had been lost. The Vedala are not able to recover the artifact because they could not survive on that planet.
Kirk, Spock and all the members of the chosen group agree to participate in the rescue.
In an instant, the Vedala transports the band of adventurers to mad planet. They get closer to an all-terrain vehicle. It has an equipment that detect the direction where the indurite –wich the artifact is mainly composed of-- is located. As Em/3/Green tried to start the chariot, the directional device exploded. Lara is ready to guide the pack using her abilities while Tchar makes an aerial survey of the road ahead.
During the travel, the female humanoid expresed her hatred for Vulcans like Spock and her attraction to Kirk. She wants to have a moment with the captain, but he is very clear on the purpose of his prescence there.
On the road, the band faces a rain storm. Tchar detects the place where the Soul of Alar is located but a lava flow from a nearby volcano is right to reach the adventurer's way. Kirk suggest to make a barricade, but his first officer makes an advice to him that it will be useless. Their car has no sufficient speed make the way out. The insectoid alien offers to make the modifications to the vehicle to accelerate its speed with the help of Spock. Their best efforts were fruitless.
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Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
Sing the bells of Notre Dame
Who is the monster and who is the man?
Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells of Notre DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME
More people need to listen to the audio of this song ripped from the movie as the official soundtrack uses a completely different mix, and that is a damn shame because the original version SLAPS and has the most bombastic two-octave crescendo of an ending I have ever heard.
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“Star Trek” 42 (1967)
I, Mudd, written by Stephen Kandel.
Roger C. Carmel as Harry Mudd.
The final act may be silly but this is a delightfully-amusing episode. The early scenes, with the Enterprise being hijacked by the android, are suspenseful and dramatic. Things become much more comedic when Mudd enters the story. William Shatner is particularly good at the funny stuff. And the episode walks a thin line very well, making us laugh but also making us believe the crew are in actual danger.
According to IMDb users, this is the 40th best episode.
8/10
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“Love is one of the best and most frustrating things about life. One of the worst parts about it is how it doesn’t make too much sense. There is no way to predict how it turns out. You fall in love with someone who you see as being perfect for you, and by what that person says they want you would be the perfect fit for them too. However, for some reason they aren’t that into you. They have dated people like you, in terms of looks and personality, both before and after you took your shot. Yet, they weren’t interested in you. Many of us have gotten a break up notice where your now Ex is explaining how wonderful you are and hope you find someone but they are just not ‘feeling it.’ The old “it’s not you it’s me” line. Wouldn’t it just be nice just to be able to skip the confusion and magically just wish there to love where you think it should be. The concept of “love potion” is an old fantasy and plays often in fiction. There are of course some clear problematic elements of this. Using a form of mind control to create love is really a dark recipe for disaster. If you are using mind control to create love then it really isn’t love, is it?”
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