Ships and a vid rec
I don't self-identify as a sci-fi geek, which is kind of funny given a lot of the shows I love. I think it's a holdover from when I got almost all of my stories in novel form, when I read a bit of soft sci-fi here and there but mainly read fantasy of many stripes. And possibly as a result of my self-labeling as a fantasy geek, or possibly just because I tend to not pay attention to the nuts and bolts of either the real world or any fictional worlds, I always forget that I love the ships in my sci-fi shows. (I don't think this is true for anime, but I haven't thought much about it yet.)
It's always a bit of a surprise, then, when I'm watching something I haven't seen for a while--say, Serenity after Firefly--and the ship comes sailing onto the screen, and my heart just lifts. Or when there's a mighty (or cheesy, whatever) space!battle!, and a significant ship suffers for it. Watching Serenity-the-ship in Serenity-the-movie was rough. So were large chunks of BSG.
Watching the vid I'm leading up to reminded me that I had the same feeling watching Star Trek, and that, maybe oddly, it's the registry number that does it. I haven't watched TOS in years and years, and can't remember the last time I saw TNG, so I was surprised by how nostalgic and happy I felt seeing NCC-1701 float across the screen as the movie panned lovingly around the Enterprise.
[/mild sappiness]
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I'm reasonably good at remembering where I stumble across links, but less so with things like fanvids--I tend to download them and then not watch them for a few days, at which point hundreds of LJ/DW posts have gone by and made things a little fuzzy. So I don't know who pointed me at arefadedaway's Star Trek XI vid.* (the_afterlight, I don't actually know if you've seen the movie, but you want to click through. You really do.) I do know that I just watched it and it made me foolishly happy. This is exactly the kind of thing that reminds me of why I love fandom, despite the gazillion frustrating things. I love that fandom takes things and reinvents them in ways that absolutely glow with love for the source material.
*I haven't settled on which of fandom's many contending names for the reboot I want to use, so I'm being cheerfully inconsistent.
[manually x-posted to DW]
It's always a bit of a surprise, then, when I'm watching something I haven't seen for a while--say, Serenity after Firefly--and the ship comes sailing onto the screen, and my heart just lifts. Or when there's a mighty (or cheesy, whatever) space!battle!, and a significant ship suffers for it. Watching Serenity-the-ship in Serenity-the-movie was rough. So were large chunks of BSG.
Watching the vid I'm leading up to reminded me that I had the same feeling watching Star Trek, and that, maybe oddly, it's the registry number that does it. I haven't watched TOS in years and years, and can't remember the last time I saw TNG, so I was surprised by how nostalgic and happy I felt seeing NCC-1701 float across the screen as the movie panned lovingly around the Enterprise.
[/mild sappiness]
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I'm reasonably good at remembering where I stumble across links, but less so with things like fanvids--I tend to download them and then not watch them for a few days, at which point hundreds of LJ/DW posts have gone by and made things a little fuzzy. So I don't know who pointed me at arefadedaway's Star Trek XI vid.* (the_afterlight, I don't actually know if you've seen the movie, but you want to click through. You really do.) I do know that I just watched it and it made me foolishly happy. This is exactly the kind of thing that reminds me of why I love fandom, despite the gazillion frustrating things. I love that fandom takes things and reinvents them in ways that absolutely glow with love for the source material.
*I haven't settled on which of fandom's many contending names for the reboot I want to use, so I'm being cheerfully inconsistent.
[manually x-posted to DW]