About two years ago when I got assigned a story about Saavik and Spock at a ficathon, I went back to the novel, and it held up really well for me, so I still love it as young me did.
Teen me didn't get the pon farr implication the first time I watched STIII, but that was because Amok Time has a hilarious change in the German dubbed version, which was all I knew. Because when ST was originally broadcast on German TV, it was seen as aimed at children and put in an early afternoon spot accordingly, and because Amok Time was deemed to be not suitable in its orginal form, the dubbed dialogue and some cuts mean Spock gets space flu, falls into a delirium where he has this weird dream about almost marrying back home on Vulcan and killing his bff, meanwhile McCoy rearches and finds a cure, Spock wakes up, is a bit confused but happy to find Kirk alive, the end. When I started to read ST novels and pon farr came up, I was v.v. bewildered because that was not how I remembered the episode. :)
Anyway, later when I got the implication of Saavik helping mindless young Spock through his pon farr, I stranagely could stomach this better than the news of them actually getting married in a novel (which I haven't read) via fannish grapevines, because the situation in ST III was a dire emergency, whereas a romance would have been a conscious choice on their parts. Then I decided the novels were contradictory to each other and I could pick which ones I saw as my headcanon anyway.
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Teen me didn't get the pon farr implication the first time I watched STIII, but that was because Amok Time has a hilarious change in the German dubbed version, which was all I knew. Because when ST was originally broadcast on German TV, it was seen as aimed at children and put in an early afternoon spot accordingly, and because Amok Time was deemed to be not suitable in its orginal form, the dubbed dialogue and some cuts mean Spock gets space flu, falls into a delirium where he has this weird dream about almost marrying back home on Vulcan and killing his bff, meanwhile McCoy rearches and finds a cure, Spock wakes up, is a bit confused but happy to find Kirk alive, the end. When I started to read ST novels and pon farr came up, I was v.v. bewildered because that was not how I remembered the episode. :)
Anyway, later when I got the implication of Saavik helping mindless young Spock through his pon farr, I stranagely could stomach this better than the news of them actually getting married in a novel (which I haven't read) via fannish grapevines, because the situation in ST III was a dire emergency, whereas a romance would have been a conscious choice on their parts. Then I decided the novels were contradictory to each other and I could pick which ones I saw as my headcanon anyway.