8 days of happiness #7
May. 18th, 2009 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
essayelShould have posted this yesterday but I got distracted by a heavy duty plotting session in Morningstar Manor. Thank goodness for saved drafts.
TodayYesterday I baked ox liver until it is almost dry and cut it into tiny cubes and I'm moving round the house with a comet tail of animals, all of whom want to be my BFF. Also they keep showing me where the fridge is in case I've forgotten.
Unrelated to that -today I went to see Star Trek.
It was okay. To be honest from seeing all the posts about it I'd been expecting to be blown out of the water by it, like I was with Pirates of the Caribbean and that just didn't happen. However I did enjoy spotting the new spin they had put on the cliches. Oh and Simon Pegg. He was just lovely.
Various things occurred to me while watching:
Someone must have gone down to Design and said "We want a spaceship that looks totally EVIL. You know - you've seen Mad Max" and Design thought that he meant the crew as well. Mind you, fashion can change a lot in 300 years so maybe the Romulans did go down the tattoos and no washing route.
Why is it no woman whose width exceeds 20% of her height can have a job on a star ship? Oh wait they were all cadets weren't they? And presumably Star Fleet rejects candidates on the grounds of puppy fat.
Why is it that Star Fleet is so disorganised that the fleet's new flag ship had to be staffed by cadets. I know it was a bit of a crisis but you don't crew a thing like that on impulse. Captain Pike would have handpicked his officers. If it was ready to fly they'd have had a crew ready too, and certainly have a pilot who knew when to check the brakes. And DEFINITELY wouldn't have put a loose cannon like Kirk in a position of authority. BUT I suppose that's the whole point of the thing.
Kirk - spot on. He's still the egotistical tit I disliked on my first watch through in 1967 [or was it 68?]
Spock - eerily good. Quinto had the mannerisms down pat.
Bones - was a bit of a one trick pony. I'd have liked to have seen him being an excellent doctor as well as Mr Angry and a bit of light relief.
Scotty - oh *loves* A very different interpretation from James Doohan, but I liked it. Also Sulu and that stupid but oh so cool sword and Chekov! of course if you have an application like an enormous and complex computer game, the best person to run it is a 17 yr old lad with reflexes honed by HOURS of WOW or Halo or that centuries equivalent.
Uhura - nice to see a bright, confident girl certain of her own worth but that stuff with Spock? Eh, what? Also my husband said he really missed Nichelle Nicholls fantastic legs and lush curves. Tastes may have changed a bit but surely guys don't ALL lust after youths with boobs?
Special effects - they were good. I liked how the explosions were audible inside the ship and went to silence outside.
So verdict - if there are more films in the series I'll go and see them, but I don't think I'll be writing any fan fic. I got that out of my system in 1970.
Today I'm all on my own in the museum, with a cold and another spreadsheet to do. So *grumps*
Unrelated to that -
It was okay. To be honest from seeing all the posts about it I'd been expecting to be blown out of the water by it, like I was with Pirates of the Caribbean and that just didn't happen. However I did enjoy spotting the new spin they had put on the cliches. Oh and Simon Pegg. He was just lovely.
Various things occurred to me while watching:
Someone must have gone down to Design and said "We want a spaceship that looks totally EVIL. You know - you've seen Mad Max" and Design thought that he meant the crew as well. Mind you, fashion can change a lot in 300 years so maybe the Romulans did go down the tattoos and no washing route.
Why is it no woman whose width exceeds 20% of her height can have a job on a star ship? Oh wait they were all cadets weren't they? And presumably Star Fleet rejects candidates on the grounds of puppy fat.
Why is it that Star Fleet is so disorganised that the fleet's new flag ship had to be staffed by cadets. I know it was a bit of a crisis but you don't crew a thing like that on impulse. Captain Pike would have handpicked his officers. If it was ready to fly they'd have had a crew ready too, and certainly have a pilot who knew when to check the brakes. And DEFINITELY wouldn't have put a loose cannon like Kirk in a position of authority. BUT I suppose that's the whole point of the thing.
Kirk - spot on. He's still the egotistical tit I disliked on my first watch through in 1967 [or was it 68?]
Spock - eerily good. Quinto had the mannerisms down pat.
Bones - was a bit of a one trick pony. I'd have liked to have seen him being an excellent doctor as well as Mr Angry and a bit of light relief.
Scotty - oh *loves* A very different interpretation from James Doohan, but I liked it. Also Sulu and that stupid but oh so cool sword and Chekov! of course if you have an application like an enormous and complex computer game, the best person to run it is a 17 yr old lad with reflexes honed by HOURS of WOW or Halo or that centuries equivalent.
Uhura - nice to see a bright, confident girl certain of her own worth but that stuff with Spock? Eh, what? Also my husband said he really missed Nichelle Nicholls fantastic legs and lush curves. Tastes may have changed a bit but surely guys don't ALL lust after youths with boobs?
Special effects - they were good. I liked how the explosions were audible inside the ship and went to silence outside.
So verdict - if there are more films in the series I'll go and see them, but I don't think I'll be writing any fan fic. I got that out of my system in 1970.
Today I'm all on my own in the museum, with a cold and another spreadsheet to do. So *grumps*