I seem to be trending to linkspamminess

[dragojustine]

Adorable solider is adorable.

(I got that from miss_porcupine's DoD photo zen tag, which includes quite an impressive amount of plane porn and silly men jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, but also tends to show soldiers being utterly adorable. Including a video wherein a Marine greatly resembles my grandmother's sheltie (but cuter).

Abigail Nussbaum is my favorite reviewer, and I'm rather crushed by her evaluation of Star Trek. It's about half the (IMO) not very interesting criticism that Star Trek shouldn't be "updated" and about half the (again, IMO) much more valid criticism that she just didn't like this Kirk. But the real reason I point it out is for the passage where she describes her Kirk:

My Kirk was first and foremost the one from the movies. The one who got old and fat, who paid the wages of his youthful womanizing with a son who wanted nothing to do with him, and of his meteoric career with an admiralty he loathed. This Kirk was shocked, simply flabbergasted, at no longer being that brash young man who could do no wrong, but in a way he never stopped being that person. Even dying he was full of wonder and a sense of adventure.

I love character meta that makes me fall in love with that character all over again. How perfectly expressed. Oh, Kirk.

Lastly, the Clios are in! They were medium-good this year: There's the T-Mobile dance which makes me grin like a dork for the rest of the evening every time I watch it, a haunting and magical public-service ad, and the hilariously surreal Abe Lincoln. The legacy ads included one I hadn't seen before, from The Guardian.

End linkspam. I promise.

Comments

[abigail-n.livejournal.com]

It's not so much that I think Trek shouldn't be updated as that I think it doesn't need to be in order to justify its central position in SF history. And I think if I'd found the movie more satisfying that even that wouldn't have been a meaningful objection - a good piece of entertainment is worthwhile even if it doesn't feature the first interracial kiss on TV or capture the imagination of an entire generation.

This (http://punkadiddle.blogspot.com/2009/05/star-trek-2009.html) is a really great review of the film that also talks about what made Star Trek (or at least Next Generation and onwards) special that the film is totally missing.