The long, hard slog
Jun. 22nd, 2010 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeThe final half of season three of Star Trek: really painful. So painful that I put it on hold and started watching the Sky adaptation of Going Postal. Since Hogfather made me want to eat my own eyeballs, I wasn't expecting anything remotely good, but so far it is BRILLIANT. Man, I could just watch Claire Foy all day. She hereby goes on my list of potential Romanas.
Anyway, yes, Trek's downhill run. I got to "The Way To Eden", which is both hilariously reactionary and distressingly true in the way it's about dumb, privileged kids running off to find meaning through cultural appropriation, and running the risk of maybe sort of accidentally wiping out indigenous aliens with their Future Diseases.
Also, "inciting discontent" appears to be a crime in the Federation, and while it's probably just a variation on encouraging mutiny talk, it amuses me to think that negative talk about the Great Federation Lifestyle is seditious.
Do I really have to watch the rest? I've become desperate to watch The Motion Picture, just for a change of pace. (Insert your own "Motionless Picture" joke here.)
Anyway, yes, Trek's downhill run. I got to "The Way To Eden", which is both hilariously reactionary and distressingly true in the way it's about dumb, privileged kids running off to find meaning through cultural appropriation, and running the risk of maybe sort of accidentally wiping out indigenous aliens with their Future Diseases.
Also, "inciting discontent" appears to be a crime in the Federation, and while it's probably just a variation on encouraging mutiny talk, it amuses me to think that negative talk about the Great Federation Lifestyle is seditious.
Do I really have to watch the rest? I've become desperate to watch The Motion Picture, just for a change of pace. (Insert your own "Motionless Picture" joke here.)
