Frak Yeah Sci Fi

Enterprise

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:39:43 -0400

I didn’t really watch it when it came out, because I didn’t really like it. I’ve recently forced myself to give it another shot. It is by far my least favorite Star Trek, but in some ways it’s alright. I think it could have been good, but here are my issues with it:

THEME SONG
I didn’t like the way the Vulcans were portrayed as evil throughout the whole series.
TOO MUCH TIME TRAVEL - when you really think about time travel ideas, there are always issues that don’t make sense. By using it so much, and so early on, I think they really fucked up. We didn’t care about the characters enough yet to look past the flaws of it, and yes there were tons of flaws that didn’t make sense.
technological anachronisms - may be a nerdy thing to be frustrated at, but it is REALLY FRUSTRATING
Archer can often be a really shitty captain, the whole crew often makes things WAY more difficult then they need to be.
Some throwbacks to others series are ok, but way overdone, especially in early episodes, the one I did like was the mirror universe/defiant
Hoshi

Good Things:

gratuitous sexuality
Jeffrey Combs
grease-down room
T-pol leaning her boobs over everyone

Draal as Antaak in Enterprise

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:24:59 -0400

Draal as Antaak in Enterprise

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Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:08:14 -0400

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Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:06:49 -0400

What am I missing?

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:00:15 -0400

My friend just forced me to watch Avatar again, she said I didn’t give it a fair chance the first time. I really just don’t get it, I figured it would die after people started seeing it on their crappy tvs and realizing that they were blinded by the cgi and didn’t notice the predictable and stupid plotline. And seriously, the end is not a victory. I’m just waiting for Avatar 2, when the army comes back with someone less retarded in charge, or just nukes the shit out of the planet and it all turns into A Boy and His Dog.

yeah, I know Avatar is old news, I was just angry after seeing it again.

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Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:47:57 -0400

fuckyeahspacefashion: I kind of REALLY want a Bajoran earring

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 03:42:47 -0400

fuckyeahspacefashion:

I ~~kind of~~ REALLY want a Bajoran earring

too good

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 03:39:19 -0400

too good

FACT: Russians are good at science fiction

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 03:30:26 -0400

If you haven’t read Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, then you’d better get your ass reading. Set in a dystopian future, in the totalitarian One State, where people have glass walls and no personal freedom. It was written in 1921 and had a major influence on George Orwell’s 1984.

John Carpenter’s The Thing is one of my favorite movies of...

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 03:17:25 -0400

John Carpenter’s The Thing is one of my favorite movies of all time, here’s why:

ISOLATION. So many scary movies are ruined by the fact that the characters could just leave. Often filmmakers see that this is a problem, so they come up with some contrived and frankly ridiculous reason for why the people can’t just walk away. The Thing, however has a perfect way of isolating the characters. Put them in an antarctic research post. They’re cut off from help and stuck. Want to leave? It’s as cold as Rura fucking Penthe out there, where are you gonna go?
GORE RATIO. The Thing finds the perfect balance of gross, crazy-awesome gore and ass-clenching suspense. The gore is necessary for establishing the frightening nature of the alien, it just wouldn’t be as scary without it. Yet it doesn’t rely on this gore like so many gross-out movies. The classic blood-test scene somehow never gets easy for me to watch.
MYSTERY. What the hell is this thing? Where is it from? What does it want (other than to kill everyone)? — I. DONT. KNOW. and I’m glad I don’t, it makes it extra creepy and cool.
lot’s of other reasons, but I want to go to bed, so that’s all you get.

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Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:29:28 -0400

I wish judges dressed like this

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:13:12 -0400

I wish judges dressed like this

In the same episode, Baltar as Kor

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:09:14 -0400

In the same episode, Baltar as Kor

I love recognizing people from Babylon 5 in Deep Space 9 (or...

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0400

I love recognizing people from Babylon 5 in Deep Space 9 (or vice versa)

the Technomage (2x03) is also Kang (2x19)