It's like this: In Star Wars, if a robot is causing a problem, you slice it in half with a light saber. In Star Trek, you give it a paradox that fries its logic circuits.
Doesn't Kirk famously solve a problem at Starfleet Academy by doing the "slice the Gordian knot" solution?
Kirk is supposed to be cool. He
doesn't
follow the Prime Directive. He's a rebel, ladykiller, leader of men (and women), torn-shirt, grappling with giganto Lizardmen dude. Sure he uses his brain to make a cannon out of rocks and cardboard tubing, but that doesn't make him
less
cool.
Spock is also cool in the original, Miles Davis, contained/reserved sangfroid way.
I'm not sure if either verse's ethos is particularly cool: rational humanism vs. halfassed buddhism.
But original flavor Trek definitely has as many instances of cool as Star Wars.
While the Star Wars verse is definitely Romantic, it must be noted that Romantic isn't really cool. It's...Romantic. Hot blooded, big-gestured, all-for-love. Naked emotion may be a desirable human quality (or not), but it's the opposite of cool's reserve.
Doesn't Kirk famously solve a problem at Starfleet Academy by doing the "slice the Gordian knot" solution?
Well, he out-and-out cheated because he was too stubborn to lose.
But original flavor Trek definitely has as many instances of cool as Star Wars.
Space hippies!
HP bulletin - Aims alert:
Daniel Radcliffe's Broadway Run of Equus struggling to sell (italics mine).
Also, ABC Family is going to run a "first look" at HP+theHBP during their HP weekend December 5-7th.
And they're scouting locations for Deathly Hallows already.
And they're scouting locations for Deathly Hallows already.
My bedroom for making the Potter-Sprog for the epilogue would do nicely.
Kirk is cool. Star Trek is not. The whole thing -- not a character or a scene. I wish I could think of another word that encapsulates what I mean.
Naked emotion may be a desirable human quality (or not), but it's the opposite of cool's reserve.
Actually, maybe that does get at a part of it. Because Star Trek is not reserved: it is explictly preachy. Of the movies, I always thought the 4th was the most true to the spirit of the show because, my god, it's about
saving the whales.
I'm thinking about having a movie marathon this weekend at the bargain theater. They've currently got Burn After Reading, The Dark Knight, and Wall-E playing there, and I've not seen any of them (this year's been pretty lean on the movie-going front). If I time it well, I can go see all three on Friday (for only $6 total), and follow it with dinner at the Indian restaurant next door.
That sounds like an awesome day, Kathy.
Kathy, I'm not sure what others would say, but I think you should watch TDK last.
When I saw that movie the first time, I don't think I could have watched another movie right after.
