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[gabri_jade]

Still alive, if anyone's wondering. Terribly behind in all things online per the usual, but still alive. Will hopefully catch up over the weekend. Yes, you've heard that before. My intentions are still pure. :p

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[deaka]

*glomps* I have to admit I was wondering if everything was okay, because I hadn't seen you about much this week. DRL is a pest, yes? :p

I'm really looking forward to see Star Trek -- it sounds fantastic. Hopefully I can drag my sister along tomorrow.

[gabri_jade]

*is glomped* :D It's totally DRL. The good thing is that I've caught up with a lot of RL, and can turn my attention to online stuff with far less guilt now. It's just too late even for me to try to start tonight. :p

You'll love it, I'm sure. I was grinning through the whole thing. I nearly applauded a dozen times during the movie, and the whole audience did applaud as soon as it ended. It was SO GOOD. :D

Good enough, as you can see, that I had to hunt down a proper icon before I wrote the entry. :p

[deaka]

RL has a habit of piling up all at once, doesn't it? It's like, enough already, you've made your point. :p

It's been ages since I saw anything halfway decent at the cinema, so it should be good. :D

*approves of icon*

And I forgot to add that kitty sleep-tail-twitching is adorable. :p

[maramijade]

I think that may not be an isolated incident :) last night the audience applauded from the showing I saw as well :)

Much with the geeking out :)

[lady_padme]

Hmmmph...surprisingly, I realized I never knew if you had any interest in ST before. Is it just that ST took a back seat to SW and so it was never brought up before?

I admit I liked to watch the old '60s series because it was campy and fun and often there was nothing better to watch on my 10 inch dorm room television at 1AM, but I was never sucked into it the way most MITers were (you should have seen the excitement when Gene Roddenberry came to MIT to talk) But I wasn't excited at all when they announced this new movie. I was also somewhat offended when one of our nurses was like, "You must be excited, this new Star Wars movie is coming out." "What? A Star Wars movie coming out and I don't know about it? Wait? Do you mean Star Trek?" "Oh...yeah, maybe it was Star Trek. Same difference...right?" Grrr!!

But this post gives me food for thought. Maybe we could go and check this one out. Hmmm....

[gabri_jade]

Oh, I was a serious ST fan for years and years. I was a SW fan first (since I was seven, ST since I was twelve), but for a long time ST took priority, because ST always had something new coming out. There were four shows in quick succession, three of them running for seven years each (I think; might have been six or eight), plus new movies, plus the books. But I gave up on the books before I gave up on the shows, because there were SO MANY. There'd be three or more new books a month, and I had neither the time nor the inclination to keep up any longer. And then by the time Enterprise and Nemesis came out, the quality had declined and ST had simply been overexposed, and my interest waned considerably. By that time, the PT had come out, which rekindled my interest and led directly to me discovering fanfic, which was not only a new obsession but which also led to me catching up on the EU, which was in the middle of the NJO at the time - so there was a lot of new SW stuff to be excited about, and very little ST stuff. SW is very

[gabri_jade]

Well, I'm sure glad he hit the brilliant end of the scale for this. I was totally expecting awfulness, and it was really nice to be wrong. :D

She's so cute when her tail twitches in her sleep. It's not just the tip like some cats, oh, no. Quarks tail lifts from the very base, stiff as a board, and the entire length quivers. Cracks me up. :D

[jeditrace]

ZOMG, Star Trek was awesome!! I grinned like an idiot through the whole thing - except for the first part, which had me in tears - and our audience applauded at the end, too.

The casting was genius! Made me wish the whole original crew was still alive to have seen it, they did such a good job with those characters. (Tim said that John Cho called George Takei to get advice on playing Sulu. I thought that was cool.)

And I don't want to spoil it for anybody, but I totally did not know that a certain actor was going to be in it. *big, nostalgic grin*

With movie prices nowadays, I never see anything twice in the theater, but I really want to see it again. :D

LOVE the icon, BTW!

[gabri_jade]

I loved it SO MUCH

[wildknght7]

[gabri_jade]

Yay! :D