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And I think everybody has that about something.
Some people feel that way about sports teams for god's sake. A sentiment which I will, to my dying day, never understand.
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- Gregory Harbin
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I feel that way about Star Trek.
155 2010-04-21 16:38:43 (edited by Jeffery Harrell 2010-04-21 16:39:17)
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Tough. Unlike dear Brian, I know better than to hoist my totems on a plinth for the amusement of the crowd.
(Plus, I think I pretty much gave away enough clues for a motivated soul to figure out.)
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Oooh, that's a good guess. Didn't even think of that one. Not Neuromancer, though. I liked that book a lot, but it's not on my top ten list or anything.
Teague, if "all the wrong ways" means they're trying to make a computery sci-fi movie, then yeah, they're screwing it up. Neuromancer is a hard-boiled mystery that'd make a nifty retro-futuristic film noir.
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Something else that bothered me, Mayhew, though there is a tiny amount of precedent for it in the original series. What I have the greatest issue with is the fact that Uhura comes and bitches at Spock for not getting the assignment she wanted and he caves and reassigns her almost immediately. Neither of his actions in that situation - assigning her a post solely to avoid the appearance of favoritism nor caving feebly when confronted with it - are at all consistent with Spock's character.
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Well, she should have done it in such a way that made sense for the situation and the other characters, as well. Maybe she puts together the pieces that Kirk puts together. And Kirk has to demonstrate his ability in some other way.
You're right, it is Chapel who more overtly had the thing for Spock. But there's at least one moment early on where Uhura sings accompaniment to Spock's Vulcan harp playing. I have to watch it again to see if there's really a romantic subtext played in that scene at all. I want to see there's one or two other instances of very subtle indications, but I can't recall them if there are.
I do remember that it was Sulu who had the main hots for Uhura.
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- TrowaGP02a
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I started crying TWICE reading that.
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As a funny aside, last year I helped my teacher at a fund raising dinner for her daughter's school. She knew I was a Star Trek fan and introduced me to one of the other parents, who used to be a producer for it. When she told me this before hand, I was of course very excited. But not knowing anything about Star Trek herself, she didn't mention the fact that he was a producer for "Voyager."
Introductions, introductions, small talk. I ask what he worked on specifically and he responded, "Voyager." My face fell before I could catch it. "Oh," I tried to salvage. The first couple of seasons had potential, before the rest of them shit it all away. Maybe he worked primarily on those? "Were you there for the whole run...or maybe just a few seasons?" I ask. "Well, I worked on it the whole time but it wasn't until towards the end where I was really in control." (I'm paraphrasing) "Oh...that's awesome." My face fell again. Awkwardness. End of the conversation.
True story.
- Kyle
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I think I'm going to make Christmas with the Kranzes as a horror movie, just to fuck with this same "THE SPIRIT OF THE ORIGINAL~!" thing Brian has going on. And I'm going to ask Ken Mattingly at the next family reunion to star as the killer.
Just playing.
But seriously, after relistening to the episode, I realized MY biggest problem with this DIF: Teague says "we're tapping you in, Brian, go!" and claps his hands twice. Clearly what he was TRYING to say was "We're TAGGING you in Brian, go!" and he should have clapped his hands ONCE. But he didn't because he knows not of what he speaks and he isn't paying enough attention at Lucha Va Voom.
- Kyle
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I saw Thanksgiving before I knew Teague knew the guy who made it. I was thinking sequel.
Or reboot, I suppose.
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You wouldn't be the first person to come along and parody my parody, son.
But you might just be the craziest! Someone get this man a wise cracking dog!
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Wow, that podcast was... interesting.
I loved this movie (it made me cry in the first 5 minutes) and I hated it at the same time (all that crap with the worm/black hole physics and red matter-WTF?).
I think it jumped shark half way with 1 to many magic beans (first was timetravel) the second being unexplained Unobtainium/red matter. At least Avatar called it Unobtanium (shorthand for macguffin), StarTrek didnt even try to patch that hole (in plot).
Anyway, my new phrase would have to be "Bridge Logic", logic that doesnt last long enough to get you off the Enterprise bridge. I forgave soooooo much in this movie, but the end could have been a redeemer, it just fell short.
Good start for a new series however.
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