Dollhouse and Film Night: Star Trek

[erastes]

Dollhouse has been renewed for  a second season! Hurray!  Budget slashed though…

Went to see Star Trek last night, and I LOVED it. Utterly utterly loved it. The characterisations were just perfect without seeming like spoofs, the humour was brilliant, the effects amazing and the AU stuff was very clever so the purists couldn’t make too much fuss. I can’t decide which I loved better, Scottie or Bones. Kirk was perfectly reckless, and Spock was spot on. Eyefucking Kirk Spock!  Just watch fanfiction as it comes full circle… The only thing I didn’t like was the Uhura stuff – it really really felt like it was shoehorned in because they suddenly HAD to have a love interest, which it absolutely didn’t need.

Oh and Sulu!  And BABY CHEKOV!!!!!!! ARGH!

Excellent. Series now plz!

OH, and I watched The Dark Is Rising yesterday too. I haven’t read the book or books so I had no preconceptions there but it was one of the worst films I’ve seen in a long time, marginally better than Van Helsing. The script writer needed to be SHOT because the script was:

You are the seeker. Find the signs.

Have you found the signs? You are the seeker.

Give me the signs, seeker. My power grows

His power grows and you need to find the signs. You are the seeker. Time grows short.

I can’t do this.

You are the seeker – you need to find the signs.

Give me the signs.

RINSE AND REPEAT.

ARGH!

Comments

[calligrafiti.livejournal.com]

a) Yay Dollhouse renewal!

b) Star Trek made me grin like a lunatic for hours. And I didn't even recognize Urban as McCoy. He was great.

c) The Dark is Rising book series is amazing, and the movie was a horrible travesty thereof. The books are set in Great Britain and are full of myth and history. (The movie was set, what, in California? Lovely state, but nothing to do with the books.) I try to reread The Dark is Rising around Christmas every year. I'm sorry your first exposure to this was the movie. If you like children's lit, you could do worse than to pick up either The Dark is Rising or Over Sea, Under Stone (one of the other books in the series, and a good starting point).

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

The second Star Trek movie is already been greenlit since it had such a kickass opening weekend. I read that JJ and his writing team already have two scripts started!!!

The actor who played Chekov, who is all of 20!, is going to play a teenage Kyle Reese in the new Terminator movie. It really is his summer:)

Leonard Nimoy also must love working with JJ since he popped up in the season finale of Fringe, JJ Abrams other show. (I am catching up with it.)

:) I am just glad to see more Dollhouse stories and where it goes, the chance that Firefly never got.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

1. YAY DOLLHOUSE!

2. Star Trek was lots of fun, though I agree about the Uhura thing -- I wish they'd done more with her as a character rather than just emphasising her relationship with Spock.

3. The book is actually quite good, though I refuse to see the film on principle because I heard they completely butchered it. And, based on your description, the rumours are true.

[aunty_marion]

I still haven't managed to get to see Star Trek - I've got two weeks left on the storage unit and am going MAD trying to get stuff back in. (Just done a run, need to unload car but needed lunch first, then sort for two hours, then back to BY for another load. Sort overnight, two more runs tomorrow... Rinse and repeat!) But I'm hoping to make it one evening maybe next week, while it's still all New.

I will NEVER EVER go and see The Dark is Rising film - it is just a travesty of the books, which are utterly superb. (OK, if I see it at someone else's place on DVD and we're playing a drinking game with it, or just for sporkerage; won't buy it myself, though, unless it it turns up for 50p in a charity shop, when I will buy it for sporkerage!)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Truly it's not worth watching even for the sporkage.

Good luck with all the running around!

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to report that the Trek movie is even winning over the people who were desperate to hate it. And yes, we fanficcers have a lovely new AU to play in. Spock/Uhura? Pah! Long live Kirk/Spock - quite possibly with even more on-screen chemistry than the original!

[cerisaye.livejournal.com]

I saw Star Trek last night too, and LOVED it, even though I was one of those sceptics obsessed with the original for 40 years + who said they couldn't pull it off. Nostalgic yet all shiny and new, and I am SO happy- this was my first fandom obsession, Kirk/Spock my original OTP long before I had words for those things.

Am reading fanfic and downloading OST eps., so it begins again!

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

I love Abrams for allowing the cast to make their own decisions about which aspects of their characters to keep from TOS, and I think all the actors did an amazing job making their characters their own while keeping them recognizable. I still don't know why the alternate time line means that Vulcan's sky isn't red anymore, but I'll get over that. ;) I loved the movie, too. *dances*

[cassandra-gold.livejournal.com]

I really liked Star Trek too. I was worried they'd turn it into a popcorn flick with no connection to the original, but I thought they did a great job of referencing the old while making it new. Good stuff!

(I also thought the Uhura thing came out of nowhere. What was up with that?)