Warning: abuse of exclamation points!
I have finally seen the new Star Trek, and now I can read all the bookmarked spoiler posts! (1) A giant red ball of liquid, JJ Abrams? Really? Really? What is your childhood giant red ball of liquid trauma? Or maybe that was answered by the birth scene, I don’t know. (2) McCoy! For the first time in my life, I can say I ship Kirk/McCoy. Scotty was also awesome. (3) Pretty well-armed for a mining ship, aren’t you, future Romulans? (Z. said this was a Futurama shout-out for how Kirk pronounced “future Romulans. Okay then!) But I guess I’ll give them that middling modern weaponry can beat lots of fifty-year-old top-of-the-line weaponry; I liked it when John Birmingham did it with WWII. (4) Product placement. In Star Trek. Roddenberry wept.
Hey, I just noticed Lazarus Rising/Lucifer Rising, which makes me like the theory I'm about to propound even more. I liked it but understand the criticisms! Very few surprises, but it was nice to see a lot of it onscreen. At the end, I totally thought Sam's voice took on a disturbing amount of awe when he stopped Dean from getting them out of the convent. It would be kind of awesome if Lucifer picked Dean to possess. Though Sam's black-eyed-ness, plus Zachariah’s not-so-subtle promises that Dean will have to kill Samifer, makes Sam the more obvious choice for a vessel, Lucifer (as we've been reminded) began an angel and apparently only some people are suited for possession by angels (though maybe the rules differ for fallen angels). Anyway, it seems to me that Dean getting touched for the very second time could work.
In the continuing saga of “meta vids I make in my mind,” I have mentally storyboarded a John Sheppard/SGA vid, on the order of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
counteragent’s Still Alive, using both footage and fandom source, to Poe’s Angry Johnny (No Kill Version). I mean: “I can do it in the water/I can do it on dry land/I can do it with instruments/I can do it with my own bare hands.” How is that not about us? But I’m still hoping someone will make the “shows we break up with” vid to Voltaire’s Future Ex-Girlfriend.
If you’re wondering whether the critical/disruptive message of Dollhouse is penetrating, look no further than this New York Times article, identifying Eliza Dushku’s character as a “secret agent who becomes aware that her memory has been repeatedly erased.” Uh, no. Rape and coercion aside, I believe there’s a state action requirement before you can be a secret agent.
I’m reading a lot on film and sound, and I love that the theorists when recorded sound first came in kept talking about how sound was going to destroy cinema. Rudolf Arnheim: “It remains to be seen, however, whether there is, in the movies, any justification for the kind of involved plot that we find in the novel and the play.” Arnheim also decries how silly actors look when they talk (“visually monotonous, meaningless, and often ludicrous”), exactly like vidders do.
I have finally seen the new Star Trek, and now I can read all the bookmarked spoiler posts! (1) A giant red ball of liquid, JJ Abrams? Really? Really? What is your childhood giant red ball of liquid trauma? Or maybe that was answered by the birth scene, I don’t know. (2) McCoy! For the first time in my life, I can say I ship Kirk/McCoy. Scotty was also awesome. (3) Pretty well-armed for a mining ship, aren’t you, future Romulans? (Z. said this was a Futurama shout-out for how Kirk pronounced “future Romulans. Okay then!) But I guess I’ll give them that middling modern weaponry can beat lots of fifty-year-old top-of-the-line weaponry; I liked it when John Birmingham did it with WWII. (4) Product placement. In Star Trek. Roddenberry wept.
Hey, I just noticed Lazarus Rising/Lucifer Rising, which makes me like the theory I'm about to propound even more. I liked it but understand the criticisms! Very few surprises, but it was nice to see a lot of it onscreen. At the end, I totally thought Sam's voice took on a disturbing amount of awe when he stopped Dean from getting them out of the convent. It would be kind of awesome if Lucifer picked Dean to possess. Though Sam's black-eyed-ness, plus Zachariah’s not-so-subtle promises that Dean will have to kill Samifer, makes Sam the more obvious choice for a vessel, Lucifer (as we've been reminded) began an angel and apparently only some people are suited for possession by angels (though maybe the rules differ for fallen angels). Anyway, it seems to me that Dean getting touched for the very second time could work.
In the continuing saga of “meta vids I make in my mind,” I have mentally storyboarded a John Sheppard/SGA vid, on the order of
counteragent’s Still Alive, using both footage and fandom source, to Poe’s Angry Johnny (No Kill Version). I mean: “I can do it in the water/I can do it on dry land/I can do it with instruments/I can do it with my own bare hands.” How is that not about us? But I’m still hoping someone will make the “shows we break up with” vid to Voltaire’s Future Ex-Girlfriend.If you’re wondering whether the critical/disruptive message of Dollhouse is penetrating, look no further than this New York Times article, identifying Eliza Dushku’s character as a “secret agent who becomes aware that her memory has been repeatedly erased.” Uh, no. Rape and coercion aside, I believe there’s a state action requirement before you can be a secret agent.
I’m reading a lot on film and sound, and I love that the theorists when recorded sound first came in kept talking about how sound was going to destroy cinema. Rudolf Arnheim: “It remains to be seen, however, whether there is, in the movies, any justification for the kind of involved plot that we find in the novel and the play.” Arnheim also decries how silly actors look when they talk (“visually monotonous, meaningless, and often ludicrous”), exactly like vidders do.
