The mysteries of the universe revealed… one boring detail at a time.
I will be leaving the old files in place for a while… but the new posts in the blog will be at http:/zakhad.com/bloggishness henceforth.
this will probably also break my LJ feed… if anyone is actually paying attention to it, sorry… not sure I will be able to update the feed or make a new one as I haven’t paid LJ in a while.
Rewatching DS9, I find myself hitting skip over the Ferengi and Klingon episodes. Unfortunately, this means missing half the series… did not realize how Klingon infested it got. About the time Worf started singing opera I really started to miss the old days when Klingons were shot with phasers.
I finally saw the Star Trek movie.
In a non-spoiler nutshell – Abrams has created an entire movie where teenage versions of our favorite heroes careen together in a haphazard fashion to reboot a failing franchise. There is no sense of purpose – no rational decisions – just a bunch of kneejerk decisions made by rash kids who then work through the fallout.
It’s muppet babies syndrome – fanfic has done this before. Remove a few decades and throw the canon to the wind to bring together Our Characters as youngsters.
Meh.
Clearly Abrams hasn’t attended the same writing classes the rest of us get where the plot and character development builds and hangs together in an orderly fashion. Not that you couldn’t tell this was so by observing the non-progression of Lost.