Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
A mysterious entity is chasing the USS Enterprise. Kirk orders more speed. Scotty gives ‘er all he can. But the distance is still closing. Spock estimates they will be overtaken within the next two minutes. Everyone is now wondering: What is Captain Kirk going to do?
A mysterious entity is chasing the USS Enterprise-D. Picard orders more speed. La Forge gives it all he can. But the distance is still closing. Lt. Cmdr. Data estimates they will be overtaken within the next two minutes. Everyone is now wondering: How does this make the crew feel?
Disregarding the other obvious fact, that Alexander Courage music beats the hell out of the boring-trombone background music that seems to be blaring all the time, no matter what’s going on in Next Generation: This is something bigger than Star Trek. It’s everywhere. A scene can show 1) how characters react to things, 2) how situations change so that the story can be advanced, 3) both of those or 4) neither of those. The writers, directors and editors aren’t doing their jobs if they leave any of #4 in, and they should be going very, very lightly on #1.
One of the things that has been going awry in our culture since somewhere around the 1970’s is a subtle shift in cinematic drama, involving greater emphasis on how people feel. Before that there were a lot of problems, of course. The feminists had a point, a lot of the women weren’t being given proper respect. And, the fact is you can’t make a man go unconscious for an hour or two by karate-chopping him. But emotions were for pussies. If emotion was being shown on the old Star Trek, by and large it was one of two things: Spock was reacting to a germ or virus invading his Vulcan body, or Kirk was getting all pissed off because his crew was in imminent danger, or one of his strange-looking nameless skinny never-before-mentioned red-shirt guys got killed and he wasn’t getting the answers he wanted. Those, both, had to do with changing situations so the story could be advanced. The emotional display was an embellishment for other things that were happening in the scene, they were not the sole justifying purpose of the scenes themselves.
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Everyone is now wondering: “How does this make the crew feel?”
That is why Counselor Troy is aboard.
- bammit | 01/24/2014 @ 13:31Invariably, her response will be, “I sense a duality.”
Saving Private Ryan falls into the “feelings” category of the baby boomers. Compare that to The Longest Day or Sgt York.
- indyjonesouthere | 01/25/2014 @ 17:43Bill Whittle has an excellent video on who belongs in the “Big Chair.” Not the over-intellectual Spock, not the over-emotional Bones. Only Kirk has the proper balance for leadership.
- Robert Arvanitis | 01/26/2014 @ 07:33Picard is fit only to lead us into a new “Euro” debacle.