Star Trek: Into Daffitude

[browngirl]

I had a really lovely day with WD today. He took me into the sunshine, on necessary errands, to dinner with WG, and to see STID.

... I kind of wish I'd seen it in five minute Youtube chunks. There were so many moments of awesomeness studded into a matrix of nonsensical plot and stupid character decisions, it was like a chocolate chip cookie made of gourmet chips and mud for the batter.

I did entertain WD and WG with my post-movie ranting, though.

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I think I somehow didn't believe the io9 piece as much as I should have, or something.

I should not have enjoyed that relationship discussion because OMG, Jim's little "You're really going to do this now?" but I did because OMG all of them.

Also, what's a Curate's Egg?

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

The parson's family had the curate to tea.

Mrs. Parson enquired, "How is your egg?"

The cautious curate replied, "Some parts are excellent."

[wanted-a-pony.livejournal.com]

I didn't know this a'tall. Is it the same as kitty_hides Parson's Egg comment above?

[kitty-hides.livejournal.com]

yep! :D

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Well, io9 did also say that Trek had previously always tried to make the science believable, which made me gesticulate at the screen and say "What!?" a lot. But most of their other criticisms were spot on, yes.

(And, once I got over the fact that they were having that discussion where/when they were having it, well -- it was a great scene.)

The rest of it-- well, the fact that everyone spends So Much effort in order to bring Khan back for trial, and then they Khansicle him without (AFAIK) a trial, is basically a microcosm of all the rest of the logic and plot holes wandering around

Amaebi has explained Curate/Parson's Egg for me; sorry, I assume everyone knows my not-pop-culture references.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

No, no, it was a good metaphor, used independently by several others in describing this movie, so I was wondering.

(And I agree so much.)