Last Friday I went to see "Star Trek into Darkness" and have now made my peace with the reboot universe. For me it seemed all the discrepancies arose not from the appearance of Nero and his killing of Daddy Kirk, but far earlier which resulted in the crew being roughly the same age instead of the 20 or so year difference between McCoy and Chekhov, with the others in between, in the TOS'verse. The TOS'verse branched off from our universe in 1968 when a malfunctioning suborbital warhead did not explode one hundred and four miles above the Earth.( Cut for SpoilersCollapse )

I saw the 3-D version - nothing stood out as spectacular and the next day I had a headache which often follows my watching of 3-D movies. I really don't think they're worth the effort and expense of making them ...or the added cost to the movie-goer. It was the top-grossing movie this weekend and I guess the fanboys will like it, with all the action and violence, but after the first weekend newness will it garner enough  viewers to make it a hit especially as so many other big budget summer movies are due out?

Well the NY Times had an interesting review that I will post in it's entirety behind a cut. I think the reviewer gets why I am not a big fan of the reboots (still haven't seen the movie but I have been "spoiled" though not by this review):( The ReviewCollapse )

I think that's why this not-your-father's Star Trek has yet to appeal to me. For me the original series gave me hope for a bright, gleaming future; all the reboot movies do is give us bigger explosions with cities and planets blowing up. I'm so glad that this 'verse is not in our future. (and yes I recall that cities and planets were destroyed in TOS but it was never about the explosions but about the beings affected by them.)

This version of David Bowie's "A Space Oddity" is really out of this world.

Readers of my LJ know how much I disliked the 2009 ST reboot (I've tagged my posts about it). Here is a vid with even more things to dislike about the reboot:



BTW I got drafted by friends to watch "ST: Into Darkness" next Friday. I'll be commenting on it afterwards.

May the 4th be with you and beware the revenge of the 6th *g*

I guess spring is truly here as I went to my first street fair today and bought a few things to tuck away for b'days/Xmas. Tomorrow is the Craft's Fair on Columbus Avenue and the GreenFlea Market. There'll be a lot of looking but probably very little buying (or so my wallet hopes).

I recall always wondering why Whedon was considered such a feminist and now that I've read this essay I see that I'm not the only one. Too bad the author didn't go into the comics as I think that really would've make her case.

I just found out that James Marsters was in Monday's ep of "Warehouse 13" playing, of all people, the Count of Saint-Germain. Le Comte de Saint-Germain was an actual historical character who appeared to live for decades without aging claiming to have an "elixir of life". Chelsea Quinn Yarbro came across him and decided that the elixir was blood and he was a vampire writing a whole series about him starting with my favorite, Hotel Transylvania, the book that made me see the sensuous and romantic aspects of vampires, something I never quite understood before I read it. And now the man who played Spike is playing him. I've got to go locate that ep.

I loved the friendship between Spike and Dawn before ME messed it up. Recently I came across this cute post featuring a very early meeting of Spike and Dawn in the alternate universe where she existed before S5. Young Michelle Trachtenberg is soo cute.

You may be wondering why I'm posting this from Greensboro, NC. A few posts ago I mentioned I was helping a friend go through her stuff before she moved. Well her husband is in the early stages of Alzheimer's so today I escorted him down here and delivered him to her brother who took me on a short tour of this lovely city before taking us home for lunch then bringing me back to the airport where I'm waiting for my flight back home (which might take a lot longer than planned as the weather in NYC is lousy). All in all a very interesting day as it certainly wasn't the same old same old...and I got to fly first class! My friend remains in NY to supervise the movers on Monday before driving down on Tuesday. I will miss them but it's a good move for them as she will have her family around her as he deteriorates. It's a horrible disease with no cure and no known cause. Every time I have trouble remembering a word or name I worry that it might be happening to me. Grr argh!

Well someone is attempting to resurrect one of my favorite TV shows "The Saint". I loved it back in the day when Roger Moore played Simon Templar and was even able to tolerate Ian Ogilvy's version but this...I don't know. They've turned him into an American with a murdered mother (shades of Castle's Becket) and lots of mindless acts of senseless violence. I get the feeling to further complicate matters they might even try to incorporate the historical Templars into the story arc. The only good thing going for it is they've hired Eliza Dushku to play Patricia Holm who was Templar's girlfriend in the early novels and short stories written by Leslie Charteris. Oh well it might never make it onto the air. I don't know whether to be happy or disappointed. See for yourself.

Just want to wish everyone a Happy Easter, Passover, Vernal Equinox, whatever. As I was walking in Central Park yesterday I saw my first robin of spring. I guess it's really here even if it doesn't feel like it.