Cashmere is me.
nods
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Fay - May 11, 2009 2:53:22 pm PDT #1301 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Fay - May 11, 2009 2:56:12 pm PDT #1302 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
OMG! Zoe Saldana played Anna Maria in PotC:CotBP!!!
How did I not pick up on that?
::is awed::
le nubian - May 11, 2009 2:58:47 pm PDT #1303 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
connie, I bet your hubby likes the film more than you think.
Jessica - May 11, 2009 3:10:39 pm PDT #1304 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My impression was Dana's, re: the rapid promotion of the crew.
Regarding, Scotty, I think we're supposed to assume that he has the seniority necessary to head up Engineering, and that the trans-warp beaming trick earned him enough brownie points to get him un-exiled.
meara - May 11, 2009 3:39:06 pm PDT #1305 of 30000
I forgot we had a movies thread, where Star Trek would be being discussed! Oooh!
I had the same nitpicks re: sudden and large promotions of newly graduated cadets
especially for Kirk, who might've gotten promoted to captain, but not of the ENTERPRISE...more likely surely of some small ship somewhere else, in charge of like, three people??
But my other serious eye rolling moments (besides a few things like "...are they on Hoth right now?? Ooh, look, a tauntaun for warmth!") were mostly with the physics. Like, if your ship is shaking apart so badly that there are CRACKS developing on the bridge, when you finally manage to figure out how to be PUSHED AWAY by the McGuffin device you employ, you will actually be SMEARED ACROSS said bridge, if your ship does not actually crack apart.
Calli - May 11, 2009 3:42:52 pm PDT #1306 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Regarding, Scotty,I think we're supposed to assume that he has the seniority necessary to head up Engineering, and that the trans-warp beaming trick earned him enough brownie points to get him un-exiled.
I figured it was a bit of that and a bit of "Get me off of the ice lanet and I'll share this nifty, life-saving equation for trans-warp beaming with all the other engineers. Which I could totally forget otherwise, because this whole thing was terribly traumatic, dontcha know. I hear the Enterprise needs staff and the new CO there finds me amusing or at least useful. Or something like that.
§ ita § - May 11, 2009 3:47:57 pm PDT #1307 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Every time someone doesn't use the spoiler tag or span class God kills a puppy.
Juliebird - May 11, 2009 4:01:59 pm PDT #1308 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Went to see it again, and the music is growing on me.
Want moar now!
Theresa - May 11, 2009 4:04:53 pm PDT #1309 of 30000
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
I thought back on Star Trek today and I am more in love with it now that I have had a day to percolate. This may be the first movie that I will have seen more than once in a first run theatre in a decade. Maybe two.
Calli - May 11, 2009 4:16:12 pm PDT #1310 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Every time someone doesn't use the spoiler tag or span class God kills a puppy.
Perhaps this should go into the how-to page instead of
"Here are some of the HTML codes you can use: . . . <font color="white">SPOILER HERE</font>