The niggly things

One thing that's bugging me with this scriptwriting thing:
INT DAY
Or INT NIGHT
On a spaceship.
Technically it's day on half the ship and night on the far side. Or it's day everywhere all the time. Or it's night everywhere. How do they know? It's a spaceship! They're in a corridor or a cargo hold and there's more corridor and cargo hold next to them. Day and night are just a bit irrelevant!

I'm typing INT DAY because it's easier. But I'd rather type INT GREAT BIG SPACESHIP.

I keep trying not to look, and yet...

I wish, I wish, I wish I could just stop reading RTD interviews. Because I know he'll wind me up. He'll say the same things over again only more so. And it will wind me right the hell up.
So this time I read an interview that is actually the full version of an interview I read earlier, so, you know, much closer to exact-same than usual. Shouldn't even be a seperate dose of annoyance. Yet the full version? So much worse. Because he's not just complaining about fans. He's complaining in a gendered way. He is, in so many words, complaining about straight women, young females, and hysterical women. He is writing us off as 9 people on the internet and using gendered terms to do it and why can't he get it into his thick head we are many and we are varied? Surely he saw that at Comic Con?

He's also got no apparent sense of his own contradictions. He says right in a row "That’s a judgment based on sexuality. It’s horrible to judge someone on their sexuality." And "I’m talking about young straight people here that haven’t considered gay life".

http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2009/7/russeltdavies?page=0%2C3 is the last page. Right down the end is the 'nine hysterical women' comment.

He uses his previous shows and his track record to basically say ( Read more... )

okay, deep breath, think calm...
I can see his point. He does have a point. He's written a lot of things and many of them we don't feel the need to complain about. That's great.
But when we do complain, it is not from ignorance. And it can't be written off by labelling it 'hysterical women'.

Enterprise

Today I watched http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Shuttlepod_One_(episode) Shuttlepod One
I didn't set out to start watching Enterprise, it's just Virgin 1 plays Star Trek all day every day, I've watched all of Next Gen and DS9, Voyager bores hell out of me no matter how often I try it, and that leaves Enterprise. Which also bored me. Until I noticed The British One. Stoic, keeps himself to himself, self sacrificing. Also, pretty.
... I have predictable buttons. I can live with this.
So far I have learned that even watching all the episodes in their right order I don't know what the hell they're doing with any time travel stuff, that if I pretend I don't know anything from any other series mostly stuff is better, and that cute puppies somehow beat my dog phobia. Puppy in space! So cute!
Also, large parts of this series seem to be made entirely of fanservice.
I can think of no other excuse whatsoever for the bit where everyone sits around in their underwear at the end of the episode.
And again I can live with this.

Shuttlepod One though... I had to stop the episode in the middle just to LOL at one point. Because I have read this story. Repeatedly. In several fandoms. It's the one with the two guys trapped and huddling for warmth and getting drunk together. And yet it doesn't seem to know it is a slash story. It's bloody hilarious. I keep trying to find a way where this seemed like a good idea without being slash, and I'm getting nothing. The only part missing is the And Then They Done Sex. Which is a pity.

And then the episode this afternoon, with the weird Vulcans and the mind meld assault and why do they only use telepathy to be assault and did I mention weird Vulcans? ANYway, the episode this afternoon, when one of the guys is talking about SEX loudly and the room turns around and looks at him what happens next? Other guy from the shuttlepod wanders over and sits at his table. For no readily apparent reason. Please tell me this actually is slash and I just haven't heard it before. Because then it makes sense.

So I still haven't learned everyone's names yet or anything, but I do seem to be watching Enterprise.
*shrugs*