night birds digging until dawn
Watching Terminator Salvation made me want to see Star Trek again. Not because there's any similarity between the two (except for Anton Yelchin and I would really like to see the story of Kyle and the mute girl building T-600 traps, etc. in the wasteland of LA) but because, well, Star Trek was better. Not that Terminator was bad really, I'm totally glad I saw it on the big screen (there's no way those effects would have been as cool on a TV) there was just something that didn't quite click. I mean I thought the couple of eps of the Sarah Connor Chronicles I watched on the plane on the way back from CA were better (and I am amazed by this because I'd given up on TSCC right before the good stuff started happening and just started watching it again, and yeah, it is really good. I'm looking forward to the time when I make it to the end of S1 and on to S2).
It seems that I like more crack with my sci-fi than Terminator can deliver 'cause I'm all "hey, how many nukes are you guys gonna stand right next to as they're blowing and isn't that going to be a problem later?" but I'm totally cool with red matter and unnecessary clear man-sized pipes. I guess it's just that if you sell it to me as gritty and realistic sci-fi (haha) I'm going to expect the science to have some basis in reality but if you sell it to me as Star Trek or Doctor Who then I'm cool (flying blue boxes, dilithium crystals, black holes, rifts in space and time). You know, if you start off with "any weird shit you can think of can happen" then the suspension of disbelief is just that much easier. Also, I'm realizing how much I prefer anything (no matter how angsty it may get at points) with at least a little bit of humor (I'm looking at you too SPN S4).
Also, J, if you see this, T and I are totally up for a Star Trek matinée tomorrow.
It seems that I like more crack with my sci-fi than Terminator can deliver 'cause I'm all "hey, how many nukes are you guys gonna stand right next to as they're blowing and isn't that going to be a problem later?" but I'm totally cool with red matter and unnecessary clear man-sized pipes. I guess it's just that if you sell it to me as gritty and realistic sci-fi (haha) I'm going to expect the science to have some basis in reality but if you sell it to me as Star Trek or Doctor Who then I'm cool (flying blue boxes, dilithium crystals, black holes, rifts in space and time). You know, if you start off with "any weird shit you can think of can happen" then the suspension of disbelief is just that much easier. Also, I'm realizing how much I prefer anything (no matter how angsty it may get at points) with at least a little bit of humor (I'm looking at you too SPN S4).
Also, J, if you see this, T and I are totally up for a Star Trek matinée tomorrow.