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nolawitch58After that preface, I'll talk about Star Trek. We saw the film again yesterday at the matinee. It wasn't on the IMAX as it was the first time we saw it a couple of weeks ago. We also arrived earlier and got better seats. The first time we saw it we were too close. Being farther away and having a smaller screen made following the action a bit easier.
Abrams et al did a fine job of breathing new life into an old franchise. The set designer went a little overboard on the sets. I guess it's too much to ask for audiences today to accept as simple a design as the original series. The new actors inhabited the characters without resorting to caricature and retained the essential flavor of each. If they are retained for any subsequent movies, that will be good.
A couple of plotholes bothered me slightly the second time around. Where in the hell did a deep-assed chasm appear in the flatlands of Iowa even in the future? Does the car really need to drop thousands of feet for the scene to be dramatic? Why wouldn't a couple of hundred feet (which is still a stretch for such a geologic feature) be equally dire? I know the purpose was to echo the scenes later in the plot where he's hanging off the edge of the drill and the incredibly deranged platforms in the Romulan craft. I think we'd get it without the broad brush stroke. What's up with having multi-leveled platforms without railings within spacecraft anyway? Are human engineers the only ones concerned for safety in the future? Is Romulan life so cheap that they can afford to have their crews drop to their deaths in their ships?
The other thing that threw my hamster off the wheel was the black hole at the end. That was a fuckload of Red Matter. I didn't get from the action that they had left the solar system. If they had created a black hole inside our solar system of the size the amount of Red Matter implied, it would have swallowed up everything and started on neighboring stars. There's no way anything that close to a black hole would escape. I kept wondering if Neil deGrasse Tyson has seen the movie yet and snorted with laughter at that scene.
In other news, I'm almost done with Chapter 14. I've got five more chapters to go and the Epilogue. I had to rework Chapter 14 extensively since the geographical limitations would have been a problem if I had left it the way I originally had it. Hubby said to leave it alone, that it's fiction and I could take liberties. I told him I really didn't want to deal with some wonk at a booksigning years from now who could give me a ration of shit for those liberties. I'm already taking liberties with the narrative.
I wish I had jotted the date on the empty toner cartridge so I'd know when I last changed it. It's getting low and I need another one, but it will have to wait until next payday.
Abrams et al did a fine job of breathing new life into an old franchise. The set designer went a little overboard on the sets. I guess it's too much to ask for audiences today to accept as simple a design as the original series. The new actors inhabited the characters without resorting to caricature and retained the essential flavor of each. If they are retained for any subsequent movies, that will be good.
A couple of plotholes bothered me slightly the second time around. Where in the hell did a deep-assed chasm appear in the flatlands of Iowa even in the future? Does the car really need to drop thousands of feet for the scene to be dramatic? Why wouldn't a couple of hundred feet (which is still a stretch for such a geologic feature) be equally dire? I know the purpose was to echo the scenes later in the plot where he's hanging off the edge of the drill and the incredibly deranged platforms in the Romulan craft. I think we'd get it without the broad brush stroke. What's up with having multi-leveled platforms without railings within spacecraft anyway? Are human engineers the only ones concerned for safety in the future? Is Romulan life so cheap that they can afford to have their crews drop to their deaths in their ships?
The other thing that threw my hamster off the wheel was the black hole at the end. That was a fuckload of Red Matter. I didn't get from the action that they had left the solar system. If they had created a black hole inside our solar system of the size the amount of Red Matter implied, it would have swallowed up everything and started on neighboring stars. There's no way anything that close to a black hole would escape. I kept wondering if Neil deGrasse Tyson has seen the movie yet and snorted with laughter at that scene.
In other news, I'm almost done with Chapter 14. I've got five more chapters to go and the Epilogue. I had to rework Chapter 14 extensively since the geographical limitations would have been a problem if I had left it the way I originally had it. Hubby said to leave it alone, that it's fiction and I could take liberties. I told him I really didn't want to deal with some wonk at a booksigning years from now who could give me a ration of shit for those liberties. I'm already taking liberties with the narrative.
I wish I had jotted the date on the empty toner cartridge so I'd know when I last changed it. It's getting low and I need another one, but it will have to wait until next payday.
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Date: 2009-05-31 10:10 pm (UTC)I've noticed that in a number of science fiction movie franchises the Bad Guys seem to have a total distaste for railings of any kind. One imagines that the Romulan or Imperial versions of OSHA are pretty much toothless.
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Date: 2009-05-31 10:45 pm (UTC)And the Romulans can fly... didn't you know that?
:P
*shot by canon*
Date: 2009-05-31 10:51 pm (UTC)