This is why you all keep me around, right?

[lizbee]

In short, I am watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Yes, I did end up skipping the last few episodes of TOS, but I also skipped the last few episodes of Voyager and went straight to "Endgame", and the fandom police didn't turn up to take my credentials then, either. (I confess, though, I am excited at the thought that I will have new! unseen! VOY when I reach that stage in my Watch All Most of Star Trek project.)

Anyway, it is a very frustrating movie, in that there are lots of scenes with really powerful and energetic music, set against visuals in which things haaaaaaaaaaaaappppppppppppppeeeeeeeeen veeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy sloooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwly. Possibly it's just that I've been vidding lately, but that made me quite annoyed, so I started skipping all the long SFX sequences, and got halfway through the movie in only 45 minutes. Most of which, I add, involve Kirk being a douche while Spock and McCoy pimp their way through the galaxy, so that's business as usual. I'll finish watching it tomorrow; it got too cold to quite, and I lack the capacity to watch any kind of TV without something in my hands these days.

I feel like Ilia is a character who deserves more attention in fandom. Yes, her story sort of sucks, her character is ... um ("My oath of celibacy is on record, Captain." Apparently she comes from one of those patented Roddenberry planets where everything is about sex. So, fandom.) and she's basically Deanna Troi v.0, but I kind of like her anyway. However, if I were of a mind to write Trek fic right now, it would involve Spock and the Romulan commander from "The Enterprise Incident" in the AOS-verse. So.

Comments

[medie]

Ilia! Deltans! Everybody loves the Deltans! (Seriously, there's some kind of combination of pheremones and empathic emanations going on that gets everybody all hot and bothered, but the Deltans refuse to take advantage of 'sexually immature species' like ours. Our pleasure threshold isn't up to snuff. So, you know, G'Kar's peeps!)

And yeah, Deanna and Will are Ilia/Decker 2.0.

[biichan]

If you pay attention to the colored patches what denote departments on the ugly grey jumpsuits, you'll notice that Spock and McCoy switch jumpsuits for a scene! My favorite explanation for this was they dressed hurriedly after offstage sex, but this is because I am a perv.

(Someone actually wrote fic using that explanation.)

[neigedens]

I assumed that happened even before I noticed the costume change.

[amberfox]

Oh, that makes me giggle. *off to read fic*

[spintheiryarns]

I see we are in about the same place! I finished TOS last night and am going to start up the animated series in a day or two.

[aryas_zehral]

I can understand skipping the long FX sequences. I get the feeling that, just like the weirdly coloured uniforms, there was some band wagon jumping going on with them. The last time I tried to watch it I fell asleep in minutes. :)

[prof_pangaea]

i love TMP, and i love long special effects sequences from late 70's sci-fi movies, and even i am like, "omg, fast-forward through some of this FOR FUCK'S SAKE". i think this would by far be the best trek movie if only 01: they'd cut the long pointless shots of space and the enterprise and wooo look at our budget! and 02: there has ben any sense of humour to the proceedings whatsoever. well, there was that shot of miss piggy that flashed acrossed spock's helmet when he mindmelded with v'ger, but really, isn't miss piggy one of the most important facts about the universe?

[lizbee]

Watching it, I felt like there was a really good movie in there, just desperate to get out.