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Monday, January 31, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
What We Take For Granted
Want to know a few things?
The Doctor had to learn that humans were useful. That's why Nine was always calling Rose a Stupid Ape.
Part of him thought she was.
But really, he learned that lesson years ago - when the Tardis told him she was alive.
He didn't always know - but now we take it for granted.
The Doctor had to learn that humans were useful. That's why Nine was always calling Rose a Stupid Ape.
Part of him thought she was.
But really, he learned that lesson years ago - when the Tardis told him she was alive.
He didn't always know - but now we take it for granted.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Just Because We Let You Live Doesn't Mean You Get To Talk
Brannon, just bite me, okay?
Bite me.
Who says you get to talk?
Okay, i know, the magazine asked the question, but who says you get to talk about how Star Trek wasn't forward thinking?
I know that's out of context but have you forgotten, while on the unemployment line while waiting for Crazy Speilberg to hire you that maybe, just maybe, when you say something, you could get misquoted?
Or was it intentional?
If you can't have it nobody can't have it?
What are you, three? What more can we give you? We gave you a career you squandered away for some quick cash and a feeling of glory.
We gave you our trust.
We gave you the life we dreamed of having, and you let it burn.
And now this.
I don't care that they sied away from having a gay character on a syndicated program in the late 80s and early 90s. I dont care what you did on Voyager and Enterprise - or failed to do. That set of failiure is well documented. I kind of care that your writing credits do not extend to DS9, which therefore gives you no right to comment on DS9, especially if you plan to spread LIES OR MISINFORMATION like the idea that there were no same-sex relationships on DS9 - go to Memory Alpha, Brannon. Click the search bar. Type "Rejoined". Press enter. Read.
But don't get yourself quoted in a way that paints us as something we aren't. You're a writer. Act like one.
And also, before you go spouting off on attempts to include a homosexual couple on Trek, chat with David Gerrold about "Blood and Fire".
http://trekmovie.com/2011/01/24/brannon-braga-explains-why-no-gay-characters-on-star-trek-not-forward-thinking/
Bite me.
Who says you get to talk?
Okay, i know, the magazine asked the question, but who says you get to talk about how Star Trek wasn't forward thinking?
I know that's out of context but have you forgotten, while on the unemployment line while waiting for Crazy Speilberg to hire you that maybe, just maybe, when you say something, you could get misquoted?
Or was it intentional?
If you can't have it nobody can't have it?
What are you, three? What more can we give you? We gave you a career you squandered away for some quick cash and a feeling of glory.
We gave you our trust.
We gave you the life we dreamed of having, and you let it burn.
And now this.
I don't care that they sied away from having a gay character on a syndicated program in the late 80s and early 90s. I dont care what you did on Voyager and Enterprise - or failed to do. That set of failiure is well documented. I kind of care that your writing credits do not extend to DS9, which therefore gives you no right to comment on DS9, especially if you plan to spread LIES OR MISINFORMATION like the idea that there were no same-sex relationships on DS9 - go to Memory Alpha, Brannon. Click the search bar. Type "Rejoined". Press enter. Read.
But don't get yourself quoted in a way that paints us as something we aren't. You're a writer. Act like one.
And also, before you go spouting off on attempts to include a homosexual couple on Trek, chat with David Gerrold about "Blood and Fire".
http://trekmovie.com/2011/01/24/brannon-braga-explains-why-no-gay-characters-on-star-trek-not-forward-thinking/
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Thank God I'm not That Paranoid
Watching Conspiracy Theory.
Just wow.
But it is fun to see Patrick Stewart be evil.
You know, the funny thing is, you never know what's gonna be worth it when it comes to movies until after it's all said and done and then you have to deal with Mel Gibson paired with Juila Roberts which doesn't even make sense in terms of casting.
Seriously, what is that? Program your people to buy a billion copies of Catcher in the Rye so you can always track them? Huh? Where does that make sense?
Just wow.
But it is fun to see Patrick Stewart be evil.
You know, the funny thing is, you never know what's gonna be worth it when it comes to movies until after it's all said and done and then you have to deal with Mel Gibson paired with Juila Roberts which doesn't even make sense in terms of casting.
Seriously, what is that? Program your people to buy a billion copies of Catcher in the Rye so you can always track them? Huh? Where does that make sense?
Fire
Doctor Who:
The Firemaker
The cavemen continue to fight amongst themselves and Kal continues to try to convince the people that the Doctor and his buddies killed the Old Woman. The Doctor eventually convinces the people that Kal is the one who killed the Old Woman and gets them to drive Kal out. Not big on the Prime Directive in Doctor Who.
It's not long, however, before the Doctor manages to piss off Za and he drives them into the cave. Za's wife tells him how the Doctor's people decided to help him - but Za is determined to learn to make fire, and he is determined to learn from the "new tribe" - the Doctor and his companions.
Ian and Barbara are trying to learn to make fire so they can impress the locals. Za comes in at the exact moment they manage to light the kindling. The people of the tribe want to kill them as a human sacrifice to learn to make fire. Za wants to learn to make fire, as he thinks from they are "the other side of the mountains". And that's when the fire starts.
The tribe is beginning to dissent and turn against Za. And someone sneaks in and strangles the guard - let me guess, Kal? Oh so obvious.
Kal jumps into the Cave of Skulls and sees the burning fire, then chases Za around a bit and there's a big dramatic fight. *yawn*. Za wins, gets the fire, and becomes the leader, then locks the "new tribe" in the Cave of Skulls again. They come up with a clever ruse and get back to the TARDIS and run away.
The Doctor, it turns out, can't get them back to their own time with any precision. They end up on another planet, with a really high radiation...
If you were watching what we were watching last month, you would know this was where we met the Daleks.
The Firemaker
The cavemen continue to fight amongst themselves and Kal continues to try to convince the people that the Doctor and his buddies killed the Old Woman. The Doctor eventually convinces the people that Kal is the one who killed the Old Woman and gets them to drive Kal out. Not big on the Prime Directive in Doctor Who.
It's not long, however, before the Doctor manages to piss off Za and he drives them into the cave. Za's wife tells him how the Doctor's people decided to help him - but Za is determined to learn to make fire, and he is determined to learn from the "new tribe" - the Doctor and his companions.
Ian and Barbara are trying to learn to make fire so they can impress the locals. Za comes in at the exact moment they manage to light the kindling. The people of the tribe want to kill them as a human sacrifice to learn to make fire. Za wants to learn to make fire, as he thinks from they are "the other side of the mountains". And that's when the fire starts.
The tribe is beginning to dissent and turn against Za. And someone sneaks in and strangles the guard - let me guess, Kal? Oh so obvious.
Kal jumps into the Cave of Skulls and sees the burning fire, then chases Za around a bit and there's a big dramatic fight. *yawn*. Za wins, gets the fire, and becomes the leader, then locks the "new tribe" in the Cave of Skulls again. They come up with a clever ruse and get back to the TARDIS and run away.
The Doctor, it turns out, can't get them back to their own time with any precision. They end up on another planet, with a really high radiation...
If you were watching what we were watching last month, you would know this was where we met the Daleks.
Friday, January 21, 2011
The Good Old Days
Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
Talk about beginnings.
Talk about the way things start, when you have no idea what they will mean someday. Talk about how Star Trek came to be - about how they had no idea, just none, what it would become.
Then talk about a blue box, three years before. Talk about a school where a teacher named Barbara and another named Ian can't decide what to do with one of their students.
And so it begins.
It's the same, I am beginning to realize, as Star Trek. The same, but different, with different accents and a different message, but it's the same too. I am always amazed that when Roddenberry was creating Star Trek, on the other side of an ocean there was another beginning, just as importand and not remotely as well publicized but far crazier - and with a protagonist that is far more sinister, oddly.
Doctor Who.
Kind of a stupid name, really, but what isn't a stupid name at some point? At what point was Star Trek a good name? When was Heroes about Heroes - other than when Claire wanted to be one? When was Alias ever just about fake identities?
There's so much that's not said in a name.
It begins, then with a cute little story about cavemen and obsessions. And that is when the TARDIS breaks, which is why it's always a police box. Now we know.
What's amazing is how different he is from David Tennant - I mean, I loved David Tennant. He was pretty. William Hartnell isn't pretty and he isn't particulary compassionate toward his companions - who he didn't even want along to begin with. But this Doctor knows love - he loves his granddaughter. He is angry, like 10. He is about as personable as 9. Thankfully, unlike 2, he does not play the recorder.
Really the first few shows are about the true beginning. They are about two teachers - Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright - who follow a rather mysterious student home one day and learn that she lives in a police box that is bigger on the inside. A big fight, lots of yelling and they wind up in the past battling cavemen with fire problems and locked in a cave full of skulls.
At least they're all locked up in a nice cave and someone lets them out, and then promptly gets conked on her head for her trouble by the head caveman, Za. The Doctor, contrary to plenty of fanfiction, is not a medical doctor, he says. Sure spent plenty of time healing Rose Tyler, the jeopardy-friendly blonde.
But that came later. Now there is just Susan, and Ian, and Barbara, and the Doctor, and they didn't know what they had. They didn't know they had the secret - if you kill it, just regenerate it. It will come back to you. It will always come back.
Easier than Star Trek, but with fewer rules.
Talk about beginnings.
Talk about the way things start, when you have no idea what they will mean someday. Talk about how Star Trek came to be - about how they had no idea, just none, what it would become.
Then talk about a blue box, three years before. Talk about a school where a teacher named Barbara and another named Ian can't decide what to do with one of their students.
And so it begins.
It's the same, I am beginning to realize, as Star Trek. The same, but different, with different accents and a different message, but it's the same too. I am always amazed that when Roddenberry was creating Star Trek, on the other side of an ocean there was another beginning, just as importand and not remotely as well publicized but far crazier - and with a protagonist that is far more sinister, oddly.
Doctor Who.
Kind of a stupid name, really, but what isn't a stupid name at some point? At what point was Star Trek a good name? When was Heroes about Heroes - other than when Claire wanted to be one? When was Alias ever just about fake identities?
There's so much that's not said in a name.
It begins, then with a cute little story about cavemen and obsessions. And that is when the TARDIS breaks, which is why it's always a police box. Now we know.
What's amazing is how different he is from David Tennant - I mean, I loved David Tennant. He was pretty. William Hartnell isn't pretty and he isn't particulary compassionate toward his companions - who he didn't even want along to begin with. But this Doctor knows love - he loves his granddaughter. He is angry, like 10. He is about as personable as 9. Thankfully, unlike 2, he does not play the recorder.
Really the first few shows are about the true beginning. They are about two teachers - Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright - who follow a rather mysterious student home one day and learn that she lives in a police box that is bigger on the inside. A big fight, lots of yelling and they wind up in the past battling cavemen with fire problems and locked in a cave full of skulls.
At least they're all locked up in a nice cave and someone lets them out, and then promptly gets conked on her head for her trouble by the head caveman, Za. The Doctor, contrary to plenty of fanfiction, is not a medical doctor, he says. Sure spent plenty of time healing Rose Tyler, the jeopardy-friendly blonde.
But that came later. Now there is just Susan, and Ian, and Barbara, and the Doctor, and they didn't know what they had. They didn't know they had the secret - if you kill it, just regenerate it. It will come back to you. It will always come back.
Easier than Star Trek, but with fewer rules.
Unlikely
"Most unlikely..."
MOST UNLIKELY????
MOST UNLIKELY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I'll most their unlikely! Gaaah! Who do these idiots think they're kidding? What the #$%&^ is a space wall and why would they hit it? Maybe they can't detect it on the TV SPACE SCANNER.
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suffering
Lord preserve me. In vinegar, please.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Finally, something that follows canon!
I'll take what I can get.
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Good fortune
H bombs? Rockets? Voodoo? Who comes up with this boloney?
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
What kind of pins are the voodoo pins?
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Oh so virtual
Still trying to figure out what to do with the Voyager episode "Virtuoso". On one hand, the Doc really annoys me in it. On the other hand, it's also insulting on a personal level - sort of like when Shatner told me to "Get a life!". On yet another hand, I have different fingers. And then thereks the last hand...
The clown suit.
The clown suit.
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
Faith
"You must have faith... that the universe will unfold as it should."
Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
I wonder if they remembered this line when they wrote XI. Once again Spock commits the ultimate act of faith. He had said it, though. "This will by my final voyage on this ship as a member of her crew." He was done with that. And he meant it. Up until Vulcan was destroyed and the universe ended, he meant it.
Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
I wonder if they remembered this line when they wrote XI. Once again Spock commits the ultimate act of faith. He had said it, though. "This will by my final voyage on this ship as a member of her crew." He was done with that. And he meant it. Up until Vulcan was destroyed and the universe ended, he meant it.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Mirror-acuilous
When it's all over, and you have nothing left to lose, that's when bad Trek gets good. Look at the last 5 or so eps of Voyager. Look at the last 3 or so eps of Enterprise before TATV, which we will discuss later, make no mistake. Look at them!
It's like they stopped being afraid of what would happen and it all just worked. Magically. By the time they made In a Mirror, Darkly, I don't care what Manny says, we all knew the show was cancelled - barring a miracle. We didn't get one, at least not the way everyone was looking for.
The miracle came later, at least for me.
After cancellation, when there was no more to come, somehow it became easier. I actually remember thinking, "well, they can't fuck it up anymore." It was over, and over was better than under. Under the thumb, under control, underwritten and underacted. Underused, understood (too well), underappreciated at times, but definitely underperforming. Now it was over.
Over.
And that was the miracle, because then the under-ness was finished and it was what it was and I could deal with that. At first it was still too hard, but then three things happened. 1. Damon LIndelof made a very passionate statement explaining that you can't just take one piece and throw away the others. 2. I rewatched TNG's first season. Talk about crappy. 3. I wanted it to work. Now that it was done, I wanted to make it work, because if I hadn't, it would have all been for nothing and I couldn't take that. I couldn't take failiure.
Maybe that was the Kirk in me. But it worked, sort of.
There are some things that are inexcusable, but somehow I feel that it is my duty to find excuses, to make them fit. I have an obligation to put the world back together the way it should be, or, in the words of Angel, which is really very profound, "We live as if the world were as it should be. To show it what it can be."
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Bound-aries
Okay, so I know Archer's been through a lot. But you know the best way to make first contact?
I can tell you what it's not.
It's not, hey, here's a ship that doesn't look very friendly to us because it's green, but even though green could be the Color of Alien Peace, let's go to Tactical Alert so they'll call us up and tell us to turn off our weapons!
GaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I can tell you what it's not.
It's not, hey, here's a ship that doesn't look very friendly to us because it's green, but even though green could be the Color of Alien Peace, let's go to Tactical Alert so they'll call us up and tell us to turn off our weapons!
GaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
sitcoms
Normally don't do sitcoms but Andrew and I just finished the last episode of Friends. Cried.
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