Willliam Shatner - Master of Disguises

He's so adorable it hurts! *sighs*





This is a very entertaining recap of the pilot, gotta love all the man-crush :D some excerpts of my favorite comments, check out the site for some funny screencap captions XD

Alexander the Great AgonyBooth Recap

And then we discover that Shatner’s legendary start-and-stop acting style was cemented a long time before Star Trek, as all of his dialogue is riddled with random, lengthy pauses. In a much too intense close-up, he declares, “If they’ve slaughtered Cleander like this, I’ll... teach them. [long pause] By all the gods, I will [longer pause] bury them!”

Cleander looks at Alexander, and in West’s usual smooth tones he says, “I thought you’d never come!” Alexander jokingly spanks Cleander with his sword [!] and laughs. “You fool, Cleander, that’s no way to ride a horse!” Wow. Male on male sword spanking. They were a lot more progressive back in the early ‘60s than I thought.

Inside her tent, the woman unsheathes a dagger. Before she can administer the self-stabbings, Antigonus runs in and stops her. She insists she can’t live without Alexander. Hey, what woman could possibly go on after she’s had a taste of the Shat-Love and lost it? This is completely understandable.

Alexander somehow knows the men were preparing to march. He asks who gave that order, and Karonos steps forward, saying he was sure Alexander was dead. Alexander is sort of peeved that they gave up on him that quickly, but Karonos points out it’s been five days. Shatner smirks, and breaks the tension by declaring the following, being all rapid-fire and Shatner-rific the way we know him and love him.

Alexander takes off his shirt, giving us a hearty helping of Shatner beefcake. He says, “I admit I tempted the gods! But they’re good to their own!” He gets naked off-screen, then jumps into the bath, groaning loudly. Well, this has certainly gotten gayer.

In a bit that plays a little differently today, Alexander responds to Antigonus’ lecture by pulling the older man closer and saying, “If you insist on talking, join me!” Wow, the gayness reading on this one is off the charts. Understandably, Antigonus declines the offer to bathe with Alexander.

As Alexander babbles on in his lively, devil may care way, Antigonus gets fed up. He grabs a bucket of “hot water” from one of the nubiles and dumps it on Alexander’s head. Alexander simply laughs and splashes around, and I wish they’d just give him a rubber duckie already, and Antigonus storms out.

Cletus gets up and wraps his arms around Alexander’s waist, lifting him up and giving us ample view of Shatner’s tidy whities.

And then, right before our eyes, Shatner invents one of Captain Kirk’s trademark fighting moves. He flails out his arms, pretending to be beaten, then suddenly brings them together, boxing his opponent’s ears. Cletus is disoriented, which allows Alexander to judo toss him to the ground. The fight seems about to continue, but quickly ends in laughter.

As Ada begins her exotic dance routine, Alexander totally snubs her by turning his back to her and talking to Karonos, even putting a hand on the back of Karonos’ neck. Which is not doing a whole lot to diminish the Gayness Quotient here.

He asks where Karonos planned for the army to march, and Karonos says he intended to return home. Alexander simply says they see “eye to eye” on this, and walks away to sit on his throne. He reclines and leers at Ada with a big, proud smirk on his face.