Bowling for Dilithium
I don’t even know who won the Super Bowl. As the “Mythbusters” marathon unreeled in the background, I spent the day doing laundry and dishes, finding our digital camera which has been lost for three months, and making a little box for the new kitten’s food bowl. The box has an opening through which only she should be able to fit, therefore keeping the other cats from stealing her kitten food. Older cats seem to love kitten food.
Anyway, the Internet’s allowed me to catch up on some of the Super Bowl movie trailers. J.J. Abrams has done me a favor, I think; it’s finally gotten through my head that this is not the Star Trek I grew up on, and that I need to stop worrying and just go along for the ride, or not. Right now, I’m still on the side of giving it a shot – if nothing else, it’s audacious, and the franchise needs “audacious” badly. Besides, I’m a bit impressed with their method of crowbarring this story into 40 years of canon whether it ought to fit or not.
Plus, Enterprise appears to have a LOT of firepower these days. In that one half-second clip, she seems to be absolutely dumping phasers and photorps on whatever’s upset her. Battletech players, remember the “alpha strike”? “Screw the heat, screw the ammo, fire everything!!!”
Having said that: the Ninth Doctor as the arms-dealing mastermind behind Cobra is awesome, but I already miss his mask. And the Baroness’ bodysuit. Also, Land of the Lost didn’t look too bad, once we take out the bits with 20-century junk lying around. And the bits with Will Ferrell. Oh, wait…
I haven’t seen any trailers for it. At this point I’m so apathetic about Trek that I’ll probably go just to ogle Sylar.
Is there anything halfway decent and science-fictiony coming out this year besides Xmen, Trek, and Watchmen? (Why am I even calling those science-fictiony? they’re fantasy.. you know what I mean though right?)
Well, if you get bored, all three trailers are on Apple’s trailer website. You do need QuickTime, but on the upside, the quality is better than the Flash trailers I’ve seen. And there’s a few nice shots of Spocklar suitable for screen-capping and icon manufacture 🙂
I know what you mean about those movies being fantasy, though I would argue that Trek still counts as SF, even if it’s not especially hard SF. But I don’t know of anything harder coming out – I know that Ridley Scott’s working on The Forever War, but that won’t be out for a couple of years.
Older cats love kitten food because it’s higher in protein and fat! 😉
just like kittens!
The Steelers won.