Thus far a very win day
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beccaelizabethI went to college, I took the DVDs back, I took the books back, except a book that doesn't have to be back yet. I went to class and, erm, left in the vague area of 'gave back' the borrowed essays. Hope that works out okay. It seemed like a better idea at the time. I did all the studying parts of the day and we watched some more Hamlet and I feel confident I understand the text at least as well as teach was trying to tell us about.
The assignment I haven't even started yet, but I have three weeks and a lesson still, so that should work out okay.
After class I could have been all studious and done more reading, but no, for it was
Star Trek
at the cinema in the mall.
:-D
I has happy.
That film is *great*.
Lots of fun. Never stayed still long enough I was wondering what would happen next in a more than a few seconds away way, so never predictable, too involving. Has KABOOMS and ships and space battles and hand to hand fighting and random space monsters and random federation citizens that aren't human. Win! And it has characters being proper people and having problems and relationships and other sorts of relationships and all everything. I like it.
... I might possibly have cried a little bit at a couple of points. Those bits worked real good.
So while I was watching the whole thing worked for me.
On the bus on the way home... Two things.
1) What is it with high school AUs? I mean, really, I've never understood them as fanfic, and now we get them as source text? I guess it's like the problem with gaming gazillionth level characters, when they've saved the world a bunch of times and can yawn through everything, compared to gaming newbies who can have quite a lot of challenge out of, well, everything. But still, it went from being a story about highly trained experts out in the universe doing their jobs to being about almost highly trained trainees, mostly screwups, with concentration on their juvenile delinquent moments. That's... not quite what I thought it was about. But I guess it is more fun to see characters grow and develop than to be all that from the get go.
2) I've said it earlier this week about comics movies, and it's relevant again here: When a story goes back to the beginning, especially on the really long running stuff, it tends to hit rewind on little developments like *feminism*. It's hard enough in movies developed right now. Remake something from the Before? And once again we're back to having The Girl. Which, well, uncool. Don't get me wrong, Uhura rocked, and I can see how the internal logic of the story doesn't leave much room for regendering Scotty or whoever (unless they're proper transgender characters, which would rock), but as is we still have half a dozen guys and The Girl. Who mostly is there to be drooled over and kissy with. Even if she's good at it, this isn't the movie I want to see, yet it's the movie I keep on seeing.
And that's without even mentioning mothers.
*sigh*
Sulu was just a bit awesome.
Sulu was just a bit stereotypical.
I can't decide... no, that's not true, when I was watching I was concentrating on awesome, but then I stop and think about it and they have an asian martial artist with no personal story arc who turns up and kicks arse and... *shrugs*
It was a good film, it was great fun to watch, as a reboot I'm sure it works, but...
... it's not what I'd want to read, write, or indeed see if I had a better option.
For values of better basically defined as 'at least half women'.
The assignment I haven't even started yet, but I have three weeks and a lesson still, so that should work out okay.
After class I could have been all studious and done more reading, but no, for it was
Star Trek
at the cinema in the mall.
:-D
I has happy.
That film is *great*.
Lots of fun. Never stayed still long enough I was wondering what would happen next in a more than a few seconds away way, so never predictable, too involving. Has KABOOMS and ships and space battles and hand to hand fighting and random space monsters and random federation citizens that aren't human. Win! And it has characters being proper people and having problems and relationships and other sorts of relationships and all everything. I like it.
... I might possibly have cried a little bit at a couple of points. Those bits worked real good.
So while I was watching the whole thing worked for me.
On the bus on the way home... Two things.
1) What is it with high school AUs? I mean, really, I've never understood them as fanfic, and now we get them as source text? I guess it's like the problem with gaming gazillionth level characters, when they've saved the world a bunch of times and can yawn through everything, compared to gaming newbies who can have quite a lot of challenge out of, well, everything. But still, it went from being a story about highly trained experts out in the universe doing their jobs to being about almost highly trained trainees, mostly screwups, with concentration on their juvenile delinquent moments. That's... not quite what I thought it was about. But I guess it is more fun to see characters grow and develop than to be all that from the get go.
2) I've said it earlier this week about comics movies, and it's relevant again here: When a story goes back to the beginning, especially on the really long running stuff, it tends to hit rewind on little developments like *feminism*. It's hard enough in movies developed right now. Remake something from the Before? And once again we're back to having The Girl. Which, well, uncool. Don't get me wrong, Uhura rocked, and I can see how the internal logic of the story doesn't leave much room for regendering Scotty or whoever (unless they're proper transgender characters, which would rock), but as is we still have half a dozen guys and The Girl. Who mostly is there to be drooled over and kissy with. Even if she's good at it, this isn't the movie I want to see, yet it's the movie I keep on seeing.
And that's without even mentioning mothers.
*sigh*
Sulu was just a bit awesome.
Sulu was just a bit stereotypical.
I can't decide... no, that's not true, when I was watching I was concentrating on awesome, but then I stop and think about it and they have an asian martial artist with no personal story arc who turns up and kicks arse and... *shrugs*
It was a good film, it was great fun to watch, as a reboot I'm sure it works, but...
... it's not what I'd want to read, write, or indeed see if I had a better option.
For values of better basically defined as 'at least half women'.
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Date: 2009-05-07 06:32 pm (UTC)So we only see the Fail in Uhura being the only woman in the main cast and not the Win in having non-white characters being in the main cast. And having the shock that the Russian is not Evil.
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Date: 2009-05-07 09:55 pm (UTC)but
people of color in cast is still win, it's just there's room to hope for more than presence.
The Russian character has lost zing.
Is now more a funny about talking funny.
:eyeroll: