Sugar and James T. Kirk
So yesterday was Easter and William Shatner’s 77th birthday. In honor of Easter (more precisely, in honor of chocolate) the kids got an amazing sugar high yesterday. I suppose childhood isn’t childhood without the Easter and Halloween jolts.
In honor of Shatner, however, here’s a Salute to the Women of Classic Trek, and it’s hilarious. The polls have three choices: yes, you’d hit it; no, you wouldn’t hit it; maybe, for various reasons. I remember at Orycon this last year I was on the mock trial of James T. Kirk, me and the other woman on the panel were representing a lot of angry green girls who had been loved and left. It was awesomely funny. It was marvelously tongue-in-cheek.
Speaking of something not so tongue-in-cheek, last night I went and saw 10,000 B.C. Now, going to see a horrid movie can be fun, if one realizes one is going to see a horrid movie and doesn’t expect too much. I liked the CGI, though I wish the sabertooth had shown more interest in eating someone. What an awesome plot device and CGI device, just wasted.
I rolled my eyes when I realized all the Passive Helper/Magic Dingus or Passive Evil characters were Brown People, and all the Active characters–hero, love interest, comic relief, and Big Bad Guy, were more recognizably Caucasian. And a further eye-rolling was had when it was the Great White Hunter who brought home “the seeds” so his people could start agriculture. *sigh* But the movie is okay if one overlooks glaring inaccuracy and embedded modern attitudes. There was certainly some pretty mantitty and nice spectacle in it, and let’s be honest, I wasn’t going to this movie for verisimilitude OR plot. I just wanted to see the big cat. Although the huge carnivorous emus were a great touch.
In between all that was some housecleaning (a motivated teenager is a great help to have around the house) and 2K on the young-adult book. I have a character who is wanting to make an early entrance, and making him wait is just killing him. He keeps trying to intrude on the narrative. Damn uppity characters.
So today it’s knocking off a serious chunk of the YA and getting to the character who wants to step onstage. It feels good to be creating again. Forward! Mush!
