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kinetic-elaboration · 4 years ago

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April 3: 2x13 Obsession

Okay, trying this again! My live-blog thoughts from watching Obsession last night. I didn’t remember this ep very well, and I was a little uncertain about it going in. But ultimately I think it was a really solid Kirk episode and a really solid triumvirate episode.

How many times as hard as rock is this mineral you’re looking for? Let’s be precise. (Aka how Spock flirts.)

I’m really into the sets and special effects today. This big rock that is obviously Styrofoam. The ominous cloud of smoke.

Set phasers to disrupter-b? I feel like he just made that up.

Oh no, three red shirts set out on their own! I feel like this one is pretty smart, though.

Leslie!!! RIP my favorite extra.

“Something that can’t possibly exist… but does anyway.” That’s it, that’s the show.

Well Kirk’s obsession is obvious right away. That’s good. We’re getting right to the point.

They have to meet up with another ship in order to transport perishable vaccines!! I know from first-hand experience that that is very important! Get it together Kirk. Admitting straight out, “I’m okay with some other people dying so I can further investigate the monster” is not a good look on him.

Also I feel like TOS often confuses “cure” and “vaccine” (as in Miri) but even if these are actually vaccines, they could still save lives urgently!

McCoy’s autopsy report: uh, just look at their faces??

The Yorktown, the Farragut… someone on the AOS team loved this episode apparently. (I remembered that the Farragut was Kirk’s first assignment but I did not remember the Yorktown.)

Interesting that the creature smells of honey because “rotting honey” was the smell that indicated the presence of Area X in the Southern Reach.

Some gratuitous touching.

When Garrovick Jr. first showed up, the shot was so ominous and dramatic that I legitimately thought that the creature was a shape-shifter and that was him lol.

Is this another episode where Kirk sees himself in a promising young man and then proceeds to judge him incredibly harshly as a way of judging his own past self? I think it might be!

Garrovick looks like he’s sitting in front of a green screen during this interrogation. Honestly, the colors in this episode are really going off in general! I can see how this would be fun to watch on a new color tv.

“Go to your room! You’re grounded!”

“Put it in your report, Spock!” I really wish we’d seen AOS Kirk do that. Like, fighting with reports and regulations is one of my favorite parts of TOS but we only saw AOS Spock use that as a weapon and it was made to show what a stick in the mud he was but like… they all do it! And AOS Kirk should have too.

And now a scene where Spock and McCoy gossip about Spock’s boyfriend.

I honestly love McCoy and Spock scenes. They have such a great rapport… the respect is not even grudging, it’s clearly there, but they make it more palatable to themselves by adding in some barbs and little digs at each other. But it’s still McCoy that Spock goes to when he needs advice or even, as he says here, just someone to bounce an idea off of, and McCoy is there to listen to him.

Oh, Spock definitely understands obsession.

Kirk’s quarters are looking very purple today.

Mccoy is trying to wax poetic and Kirk just wants him to get to the point.

Time to lie down in an Emo Fashion again.

Not to be nitpicky, but if the creature killed 200 people on the Farragut, and that was half the crew… wouldn’t the Farragut be a lot bigger than the Enterprise? I don’t think that’s right. Also, not to be even more nitpicky, but how did they finally get away from it? Did it get on their ship? If it killed all the people on the surface, could they not have just… stopped hanging out on the surface?

Anyway. McCoy is such a good best friend.

Garrovick was Kirk’s Pike.

Oh no, bringing in the big guns: the boyfriend. A blue shirt conspiracy.

Spock sounds like he’s in one of those HR training videos. Like, he’s attempting to sound conversational while still blatantly quoting from the Starfleet Handbook.

“Why are we delayin’ here?” Heavy Southern drawl.

They really are ganging up on him.

Intuition is a command prerogative.

I love how Bones says “We’re not ganging up on you” after a long scene where they gang up on him.

Oh no, the creature’s on the move! Just straight up floating through space. Cool cool cool.

Kirk’s so distracted by the creature that he’s not even looking at Spock’s ass.

Another bad day for Scotty.

I like Chapel but honestly, imagine Rand in this scene with Garrovick… I miss her.

Garrovick, what an idiot. Throwing shit and hitting switches across the room.

I legit don’t understand how the creature moves in space. Or what this has to do with gravity… which doesn’t exist in space.

Monster hunt, monster hunt!

Spock is agreeing with Kirk now, about the creature’s intelligence.

Whatever is going on with the vents in this ship, it seems like maybe they’re not the most well made.

“Let’s just nuke it.” That’s always a good idea.

Spock is trying so hard to make Kirk feel better. Even calling him “Jim”—which he used to do almost every episode and now rarely does anymore.

Lol, now he’s off to try the exact same thing with Garrovick. “If Jim won’t let me comfort him, perhaps this other irrational human will.”

“Garrovick, let me explain your own thoughts and feelings to you. I’m an expert on humans, you know. I’m around them all the time.”

“I know you want to be emo, but could you please just listen to me??” The absolute transparency with which he’s trying to be helpful.

Kindness actually isn’t an emotion… it’s a choice. Spock really will call anything a human emotion in order to avoid having to deal with it.

I'm sorry but he SNAPS THE KNOB OFF, goes "eh," throws it away, and then tries to stop the gas coming through the vent with his HANDS? How did Sarek raise this boy?

Garrovick is so Dramatic. A true Kirk protégé.

The creature tried to eat Spock and Spock didn’t taste so good.

"I'm asking for your military appraisal of the techniques used against the creature." Professor Kirk coming out.

Poor creature was lost, I guess. Just wants to go home.

And SPAWN. That word just gives me flashbacks tbqh…

Kirk and Spock having their usual ‘who will sacrifice himself first’ – off.

Realistically it should be neither the XO NOR the Captain but this is a tv show.

I do remember this part. Carrying that weird little device down to the planet. It is very aesthetically pleasing. I kind of want it for my apartment, to display as like a modern art sculpture. Minus the bomb

Mmm, a delicious snack for the creature. Yum. Got that gross green blood taste out of its mouth.

LMAO at Garrovick trying to be all heroic, knock Kirk out, and become the sacrifice. You thought!!

Spock and Scotty at the controls so you know how serious the transporter situation is.

McCoy versus the transporter again.

"It was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them." Yes, Spock saved his space husband, he saved the day, and we should all acknowledge it.

Aw, that’s sweet, Kirk volunteering to reminisce with Garrovick about his father.

The end! I ended up enjoying it a lot overall. We gotta stop having episodes where Kirk is questioned or learns lessons though lol. I want my unabashedly heroic captain! Still no matter what he is always a hero in the end. And as I said, really great triumvirate ep with good individual characterizations, and scenes with each part of the triangle together.

If the Farragut incident was 11 years before this, and, as established in the last ep, Kirk is 34, that means he was 23 at the time. Pretty young to be a lieutenant imo. He was also a lieutenant at the time he was teaching Gary Mitchell at the Academy, which I’m going to personally headcanon, starting now, was right after Garrovick’s death. He returns to San Francisco, takes a year or a semester off to teach, and meets Gary.

Next up is Wolf in the Fold, a rare Scotty-centric episode.

#the year 2021 #2021: star trek #2021: fandom thoughts #star trek tos

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drunkkenobi · 5 years ago

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Hey there demons, it’s me, ya spreadsheet gremlin

So, it hasn’t quite been 6 months since I last posted about my crazy spreadsheet of BuzzFeed Unsolved viewcounts, but it has been just about a year since I first wrote all of them down (although with not exact counts for episodes that had 10+ million views because I didn’t realize YouTube rounded down on those unless you clicked specifically to open the count). And with the new season of True Crime premiering Friday (!) I thought this was a good time to see what’s changed in the past 5-ish months. (PS please subscribe to Watcher)

As before, here are some notes before I get into the cold, hard numbers.

I’m not a stats expert at all. I just like data and trying to understand YouTube. (I still do not). Also, like last time I posted about this, I am not included the newest season of BFU (Supernatural s6 along with the Dorothy Arnold special) as part of this initial data set, as it was airing when I last posted. I did add those numbers in to see and they do skew the data somewhat significantly.

The newest episode included for this part of the post is The Curse of Annabelle the Doll, aired June 28, 2019.

Since September 30, 2019, the following happened with BuzzFeed Unsolved’s viewcounts:

3 Cases of Ghosts and Demons became their most watched episode ever over The Bizarre Case of Elisa Lam. It currently has 22.2 million views. I’m so thrilled that the quintessential BFU episode is now their most viewed. No offense to Elisa Lam, but a non-Shane episode being at the top always bugged me. Ryan screaming at Sallie House while Shane laughs at him is what made the show into what we all know and love.

Supernatural episodes were watched an average of 1.48 million times.

True Crime episodes were watched an average or 1.03 million times.

This is a lot more statistically different than when I did this 5 months ago. (SPN averaged 1.48 million again and TC had 1.23) I wonder if it’s because October is spooky season and more people watch the SPN episodes then? Or if people just weren’t in a big TC mood since only one new TC episode aired in that time.

Overall, the average episode was watched 1.25 million times. There are 90 used for these averages and 97 episodes overall. We’re hitting 100 soon, baby!

The most watched episodes were the following: 3 Cases (3.1), The Exorcism of Anneliese (2.6) and Goatman’s Bridge (2.4). Hannah’s House also continued its strong showing. With 12.2 million views, it is now their 16th most watched episode. Only one other post-BUN episode has 10+ million views, Alcatraz (10.3).

The lowest view count gains were all season one episodes: Black Dahlia, Michelle Von Emster, Somerton Man, Dyatlov Pass, and Hinterkaifeck all with .3 million.

Now 31 episodes have 10 million or more views, compared to 22 last fall.

As for March 10, 2020, these are the 11 most watched episodes of BuzzFeed Unsolved: 3 Cases of Ghosts and Demons (22.2), The Bizarre Case of Elisa Lam (21.6), The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel (20), The Illuminati (19.5), DB Cooper (15.4), Men in Black (14.9), Goatman’s Bridge (14.8), The Axeman (13.8), Queen Mary (13.5), and Waverly Hills and JFK (both 13.3).

Now, some stats on the newer episodes:

7 episodes of BFU aired starting September 20, 2019. They were watched an average of 4.16 million times. There wasn’t a huge breakout episode of this group, although The Haunting of Loey Lane does have the most views (5.2) so I would not be surprised if we get another house call episode in Supernatural season 7 this fall.

As of March 10, 2020, these are the 9 least watched episodes of BFU. Like before, they’re mostly newer. Also, I’m only doing 9 because 4 are tied for the 10th spot: Tombstone (4.7), Yuma Prison (4.4), Old City Jail (4.3), Pentagon UFOs (4.2), Bugsy Siegel (4.2), Area 51 (4.1), St. Augustine Lighthouse (4), Viper Room (3.4), and USS Yorktown (3.3).

Including all aired episodes, the average episode of BFU has been watched 8.81 million times.

Supernatural has averaged 9.03 million views while True Crime averaged 8.57 million views. I do think we can pretty much say that Supernatural is more popular than True Crime, but only slightly.

Once again, I have no idea what is considered successful in terms of YouTube. This is especially true now that I’m covering Watcher’s viewcounts as well. I truly don’t know what it takes for any show to cover the budget and make a profit. My hunch is that BFU does well, but maybe not great compared to other popular YouTubers (like the Try Guys for a close comparison) but they have a stronger and more passionate fanbase who buys more merch, makes memes, and does things like subscribe to their new channel’s Patreon in droves. Watcher’s viewcounts are much lower so far, but I am very interested to see what happens once True Crime starts airing this Friday. I’m sure BuzzFeed won’t allow them to plug Watcher during the proper episode (I’m less sure during the PostMortems but we’ll see), but with fans promoting Watcher in the comments, it might do a lot to see their subscriber and viewcounts go up. Watcher did get a small bump when the BFU season 6 bloopers came out last week, so I hope that will continue.

Finally, I was going to do some nearly-a-year stats but the math of whether to include newer episodes confused me so I am forgoing that for now. If you want to figure that out, here is my spreadsheet.

If you have any questions, hit me up! Also, if you can explain YouTube to me, that would be great.

#buzzfeed unsolved #shane madej #ryan bergara #my spreadsheets

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shakespeareanwannabe · 4 years ago

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Engineering the Future

Hi everyone! So this is my second Supernatural fic, the first one I cross-posted here on Tumblr, though I have written a couple of other things on this wonderful series. So here’s the thing: this is a bit of a project that I’ve been working on to keep myself writing even when I feel like I have nothing to say.

So here’s the deal: I’m going to write one one-shot per episode. Multiple friends say that I’m driving myself to drink, but so far it’s been fairly smooth sailing. If you guys have any ideas about certain episodes, I’d be happy to hear them, but know that I’ve got a list of prompts for three quarters of the episodes, so I may not write your prompt. But I’d love to hear your ideas. Just, no Wincest or Destiel because I honestly don’t ship either of them (no hate please, it’s just the way I feel. And no, I don’t hate anyone who does ship them). Just brotherly love here!

This chapter is tagged to episode 1x01, Pilot. Hope you all enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Supernatural. This is a work of fiction based on characters from The CW’s Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke.

To completely plagiarize someone else, “Being his real brother I could feel I lived in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.” Who said that? Why was his relationship with his brother so important? Doesn’t matter. This isn’t about him. This is about them, and the moments we don’t get to see.

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Dean had imagined this day since that balmy July evening when a rickety tin door had slammed shut and seemingly separated his family forever.

Depending on his mood, there were several different scenarios that would play out. When he was at the bottom of his third bottle, he would imagine showing up at his front door, having him open the door, stare at him, then shut it again without a word. The second bottle was kinder, allowing them to pass on the streets, perhaps nodding at each other before the one went on with his normal life, leaving the other to thank a God that he didn’t believe in that he had at least seen him one last time. The first bottle didn’t give him enough hope to even attempt to dream up a reunion with his little brother.

The fourth bottle was Dean’s favourite. He would get an excited phone call and drive all the way to Stanford just so that Sam could tell him he was getting married face to face. They would settle into a table at some hoity-toity bar or into a booth at some frou-frou café and would talk as though no time had passed. The natural lighting would fade to black and neither of them would move. Topics of conversation would wax and wane until they found themselves in the same companionable silence that graced the majority of their childhood together.

Sam would eventually sigh sadly and mutter something about having to be in court early the next morning, to which Dean would make a crude joke that would have Sam blushing behind the ears as he laughed. Dean would walk him to his car and deal with the chick-flicky hug bestowed upon him by a drunk and/or over-caffeinated Little Brother. As they pull apart, Sam would get all shy and red again as he stammered through saying that he hoped Dean would be his Best Man (because screw this Brady kid that introduced the happy couple). Dean would laugh, hug his brother, completely deny the tears in his eyes, and say “Who else could fill those shoes, bitch?”

Dean would hang around in California for a couple of months and relish in being stationary for the first time since he was four. He would meet Jessica, automatically start calling her Jessie, and plan a small bachelor party for Sammy and his college pals before taking his kid brother on a kick ass, blow out ‘Brochelor’ party in Vegas to make up for every birthday, Christmas, and any other calendar holiday that they had missed out on. On the day of the wedding he would straighten out his brother’s tie, all the while denying that he had asked the guy at the store how to do so. He would give the kid the picture of Mom that he carried around in his wallet with the explanation that she needed to be there with him on this day. He would stand up next to his little brother during the ceremony, give the most awesome speech ever written during the reception, and dance with his new sister-in-law when the time came.

While he and the other, less important guests waved the happy couple off (he had even given them the Impala to borrow for their honeymoon road trip up the Pacific Coast Highway) he would get a phone call from Dad, saying that he had finally pinned down the son of a bitch who had killed Mom, and that he needed his son there with him. Dean would hotwire a car and go. He’d stand side-by-side with his father as they ganked the sucker, turn, and shake his father’s hand before walking away from the life.

He’d stand hat in hand on Sam’s doorstep when they returned from their honeymoon, praying that his baby brother still had room for his older, less intelligent but far more handsome brother in his new married life. Sam would laugh and pull him into a hug, ensuring him that of course he would always need his big brother. After all, he and Jessie apparently hadn’t come home from their month-long vacation on their own, and this kid was gonna need a really cool uncle to bitch at when his/her parents were giving them a hard time. Any nephew of his was gonna be educated in the ways of the Impala, rock music, and the Dean Winchester Scale of Burger Perfection. Any niece of his would also be educated in these things, but he would need to be there more for Sam when the boys came snooping around, because what was more intimidating than two guys over 6-feet tall who had marksmen’s abilities?

Dean would maybe become a cop, or a mechanic, or maybe even a firefighter, but one thing he would do for sure is protect his family. He’d gank any evil bastard that came within a thousand miles of that two story, white picket fenced house on Normal Boulevard.

Maybe he’d settle down, maybe not. All that was important to him was that his Sammy was happy.

That was all that would ever matter to him.

So, when it came down to it, Dean would have traded everything he had for it to have not happened like this. Never like this.

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Sam had imagined this day since that first night alone at Stanford.

At first, he’d dreamed that Dean would show up, kick his roommate out, and curl up in the twin bed approximately six feet away from him. Dean would go to the registrar and apply to the school and get in, obviously, because his big brother was a genius. He’d probably take engineering, because Dean could do things with machinery that Sam could never have dreamed about. They’d watch each other’s backs on and off campus, and when one of the dorm rooms ended up being haunted, they’d take care of it, as though they had never been off the job. Dean would go on to open his own body shop, while working side projects like helping to rebuild homes for people who lost them in fires or natural (and supernatural) disasters. Sam would become a kick ass lawyer and help the law protect people. He’d help Dean on the weekends at the shop or with the houses, because they were brothers and why wouldn’t he? They’d still go out and watch the stars when they could, and they’d make sure to go to the first game of every season for the Jayhawks. They’d make a weekend of it. Just Sam, Dean, and the Impala. Of course, Jess would be fine with it. She’d love Dean as much as he did, because what wasn’t there to love? Eventually, he and Jess would get married and Dean would be his Best Man (even though Brady would throw a fit about it, but Dean was right, he was better off without douchebags like Brady in his life), then go on to be the best uncle to the kids they would have. Dean would meet a nice girl and they’d settle down too, and soon it would be Winchester Weekends, filled with barbeques and Little League games and dance recitals and tinkering with the Impala while drinking a cold one together and hiding from their wives and kids.

A few months in, the dream changed. One of the kids in Sam’s classes had a brother in the military, who surprised her by showing up during lecture wearing his fatigues and announcing that he had been honorably discharged and was staying home for good. She’d broken down into tears and hugged him until the professor had just wiped his eyes and dismissed the class, claiming that he didn’t want to bring the room down by talking about the Battle of Yorktown in 1781.

Sam started imagining that something similar would happen to him. Dean and Dad would kill the thing that had killed Mom, then Dean would stroll right into his Economics class wearing his torn jeans, steel toed boots, band shirt and leather jacket (the uniform of one of the longest living hunters out there, and the youngest to boot), acting as though he owned the joint. Sam would launch himself into his brother’s arms, not even minding that that cute girl Jessica sat only a few rows behind him, and bury his face in his brother’s shoulder to hide his tears. Dean would clasp him around the back of his neck and whisper that he and Dad had gotten the damned thing, and that he was quitting the life. Dad would keep hunting with Uncle Bobby, Pastor Jim, and Caleb as back up when needed, but he was out.

Dean would help him hook up with Jessica, because he had seen the way they looked at each other, and Dean couldn’t stand the lovesick puppy dog eyes anymore, then the rest of the daydream would stay the same. Engineering, lawyering, cars, court cases, house building, Jayhawks, star gazing, the Impala, wives, kids, all culminating in the two of them sitting side by side at some Old Folks Home, the lines between what they knew and what the world knew blurred by old age and one too many hard knocks to the head courtesy of any one of monsters of the week that they used to hunt. They’d sit on the front porch, drinking whatever alcohol they could get their hands on, loudly debating the proper way to kill a wendigo (Sam would say iron because he knows his big brother’s mind is fading and he needs him to stick around a while longer because Jess was already gone and he wasn’t quite ready to go and he doesn’t want to be left alone, not again).

No matter which scenario he dreamt up (defending Dean in court, forcing him into retirement when a werewolf gets the better of him and his left leg is basically useless so Sam brings him home with him, or even something as simple as Sam just picking up the phone and asking him to visit (because it’s DEAN, and there’s nothing he won’t do for his little brother, and Sam knows it), there was one common thread that remained the same, and that was that the time they had spent apart held no consequences. They would just fall back into being brothers, knowing that if they were back to back or side by side they would be fine.

That’s why, when Dean bursts through the bedroom door and drags him out of the burning brownstone, Sam couldn’t bring himself to fight at full strength. Dean was there. As much as Sam wished it had been any other scenario he had dreamt up (and not the nightmare that had been plaguing him for weeks), he knew that his big brother was there. And since when had there been any problem that Dean couldn’t solve? He could’ve been an engineer, after all.

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#supernatural #supernatural fanfiction #crosspost #in his glow

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green-blooded · 5 years ago

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Hokay, I'm starting Star Trek: Beyond. Going to rant again... maybe say some positive things here and there. Does McCoy get to be a character in this one? Guess I'm about to find out.

Summary:

(Because he did! And also other words! So there’s still some negativity here, but I liked this one best out of the three movies.)

What.... are these aliens. Why do they look like this. Why are they gargoyles. Why are they attacking Kirk. Why is this happening. Why is this in a Star Trek. Okay. I'm. Trying. Let me enjoy this. Let me try to enjoy this. I will stop being grumpy.

Haha he ripped his shirt okay you got me but if the nipples aren't out it doesn't count.

McCoy is onscreen early in a corridor walk that they could've easily left him out of, so that's a good sign? They were a trio for a second.

Why are they showing all Kirk's uniforms as the same? Where is his fat shirt? This is important to me, okay. Wait, I said I wasn't going to be picky.

Whoa, McCoy has a second scene already!!!!!!!! Oh they're having a whole interaction oh no it's cute. WHY IS McKIRK THE ONLY THING I LIKE IN THESE MOVIES? "You know me, Mr. Sensitive." Oh no he's so cute.

MCCOY'S CONTINUING TO BE IN SCENES AND ARGUING WITH SPOCK. It's still about nothing because these movies don't do deep conflict, but. Y'know. There was a tiny trio moment again. I'm being positive.

Okay, those were a lot of establishing shots for Yorktown, so I hope it's actually important...

MCCOY IS IN ANOTHER SCENE WOW.

Oh yeah this is the one where they kinda let us know Sulu's gay? I forgot about that.

Oh no don't make me cry about nimoy please i don't want to deal with real emotions watching these movies. :(

Some of this does feel vaguely Star-Trek, even though it's still taking place in such HUGE environments that it throws me off. Every room is so POINTLESSLY huge.

Um... we're leaving Yorktown so I'm continuing to wonder if those establishing shots meant anything...

The CMO is on the bridge where he belongs, thank you.

Oh, did they let the lady characters have rank now? Soooo progressivvvve.

Do we really need to completely destroy the Enterprise in every movie? Like. Gosh. Where is Kirk's weird sexual attraction to his ship that makes him want to keep it safe? He's sexually attracted to everything ELSE in this version.

Oh my god are Spock and McCoy getting to do something without Kirk there???!!! ARE THEY CHARACTERS????

Everything is so spaced out on the bridge that Kirk has to be standing at the nav station to talk to someone in another part of his ship???

Newer versions of Star Trek keep putting the "evil" aliens in five hundred pounds of latex and makeup... you don't have to make the aliens less humanoid to make them threatening if you just... write better. Also maybe stop creating evil aliens.

I really have no emotional reaction to seeing the Enterprise being destroyed two movies in a row. I don't even have any emotional attachment to this version of the ship because it looks so stupid inside.

... We couldn't get the red alert sound right? Really?

Too much action too much action too much action. Please give me a story so I can care about what's going on.

Once again the gravity situation shows why the Enterprise shouldn't have such huge interiors... I know I'm going on about that a LOT, but it's one of the stupidest design choices in these movies.

WHY DO THEY THINK WE CARE ABOUT THIS VERSION OF THE ENTERPRISE WHEN THEY HAVE MADE NO EFFORT TO MAKE IT FEEL LIKE HOME OR EVEN A SETTING IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF STERILE LIGHT FIXTURES.

Pointless action sequence with Scotty just... getting out of his escape pod. Cool.

Why put Uhura with an alien race where she could use her linguistic skills and then just have them know English? Sigh. Oh well, at least she's getting a scene to herself. Like she's her own character or something, wow.

Hello Spock and McCoy interacting! Thank goodness for small mercies. But a little less exciting when they have no established relationship to this point, but it's fine.

Oh wow they're having a conversation that could be considered somewhat philosophical. Someone saw a Star Trek episode before writing this!

The hot alien lady seems like a D&D character, but that's fine.

I appreciate McCoy yelling at Spock for collapsing in pain. But like, a caring kind of yell. Good job Urban.

I really do keep zoning out during action scenes. I barely know what's going on in the Kirk scenes because it's just a ton of action that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Like... the character who has already lied... lied again. Wow.

I really would like to have some emotional reaction to characters running around the wreckage of the Enterprise, but I don't. :(

Goodbye pointless alien who screwed everyone over a lot.

"Federation has taught you that conflict should not exist." No, these movies are just really bad at it, latex face alien.

Ooookay, we established Yorktown so we should care that this alien guy wants to destroy it because he hates unity or something. Cool.

Spock and McCoy scene okay. And we directly mention philosophy! Blunt, but cool. Again... it's just hard to get into it because there's nothing established with these characters, since these movies are more into action than character. But that was a good moment between them. Like... McCoy saying he'd throw a party if Spock left doesn't work because we have seen hardly ANY of the banter between them. It's relying on what we've seen in TOS... But Spock laughing was cute.

I like Jayla a lot. She's definitely a Star Wars character, but it's fine.

Lol they had to give us a ship older than the Enterprise to find one that looked a little bit like a Star Trek ship. Sigh. But at least they're doing it.

I love you Karl Urban for trying so hard to sound like you're from Georgia. I forgive you for, y'know, not.

OKAY AGAIN... the "Of course I care..." etc lines are good, but there is NO HISTORY BETWEEN THESE CHARACTERS BECAUSE YOU JUST MADE EVERYTHING ACTION SCENES AND THE ONLY FEELING I HAVE ABOUT THEM CAME FROM DE AND NIMOY.

He just yelled at Spock for collapsing in pain again, which is just the best.

Spock: [dying a lil]

McCoy: DAMMIT SPOCK STOP THAT

Gotta say... I did like the moment where Spock looks to McCoy when Kirk says he needs him to stay alive. All I wanted this whole time was the trio.

Okay, McCoy calling Uhura's necklace a tracking device, then saying that he's glad Spock doesn't respect him--when literally a few scenes ago, Spock said he did respect him--is kinda great. Especially since respect in this scenario is, like, a way of Spock saying he has romantic feelings for Uhura? Beyond is bringing Spones back into the picture, and it's not perfect, but I'll take it.

Scott saying "she's lost people too, Captain" was good. It was real good. There are good moments in this one, thank goodness.

Holy goodness, they're letting Scott be a character too! They're letting everyone be real characters instead of just scene dressing for the Kirk and Spock show!

I appreciate Kirk calling everyone Mr. Whatever and McCoy is just "Bones."

McCoy saying "I'll keep an eye on him" about Spock oh no. Oh no it's cute.

Wow this dumb motorcycle scene is Very CG.

The main storyline of this movie is Also Very Bad, but I can deal with bad plots when there are good character moments.That's why I can watch the worst Star Trek episodes for the most part... So Beyond is capturing the feel of a bad Star Trek episode, which is an improvement from the first two movies.

On the other hand, while I would like to try to judge these movies on their own merit, I CAN'T because they lean on the original series. The Spock and McCoy interactions are just one example where all of the emotion and development was actually in the series, but now I'm supposed to apply it to this version of the characters who have never shown any connection before now. So, I have to compare them to TOS and it's just not going to come out well for AOS in any department but special effects and budget. (And Pine being more likable than Shatner as a person tbh.) Then even the relationships they HAVE developed in the show, like Spock and Uhura, make me feel very little because they didn't develop them well. Again, action scenes take precedence over development, and it makes the entire thing weaker.

But little moments like Kirk going to save Jayla when she thinks she'll be left behind, which calls back on the moment with what Scott said about being a team... that was a good within itself because it didn't rely on anything from the original series without entirely deviating from the spirit of it! I wish moments like that weren't so rare in these movies.

Were all those establishing shots like an hour ago really enough for me to care about what's happening to Yorktown? Not... not really? I mean, it's sad, but. I don't know anything about this place. The only ones I have any connection to are Sulu's family, and that's only because I like Sulu...

AHHHHHHHHHH MORE SPOCK AND MCCOY um... do you see how easy i am to make happy like... i could have easily loved these movies if they'd done a little better

Scott and Jayla are really cute engineering buddies and this is one thing that's 100% AOS that I really appreciate.

This is how I feel when I hear the Beastie Boys too. (Not in a good way. Not a fan.)

Hey guess what I'm about to say! Guess what it is! If you guessed "This action sequence is too damn long" then you get no prizes because it's pretty much a given at this point.

.... Krall is Idris Elba? I could've been looking at Idris Elba this whole time? Stupid latex.

This... reveal makes... no sense? I mean, on the plus side, I guess this means that the evil latex face aliens weren't evil aliens, but bad Humans... Still not great that they use latex to other characters and make them more ~scary~ imo.

Also, this is... basically the same reveal as the Khan reveal, just slightly less stupid because we didn't already know this character like we knew Khan. But they literally did the "different name, and then we find out who they are" thing twice in Into Darkness... seems weird to do it a third time for Beyond.

ALLLLSO I'm really tired of every conflict in these movies being resolved with fighting... isn't the theme of this very movie about how conflict is something we're moving beyond as Humans?

Are McCoy and Spock still just flying around? I'm confused. Too much action has happened and I can't tell who is doing what. I only know Kirk is in danger because people keep saying he is.

Oh, okay, they were still just flying around so they could save Kirk at the last minute. Which is goofy, but okay. Gotta love Kirk continuing to give Spock all the credit when McCoy is the one saving him. GREAT LOVE THAT SO COOL.

Love that Spock's conflict about leaving Starfleet to help his people is literally the exact same in these two movies.

Oh no they're bringing back Nimoy related thing to give me emotions again. Don't do that. You didn't earn my love of Nimoy, movie.

OH NO THERE'S THE PICTURE PART THAT I WAS TOLD ABOUT OH NO MY FEELINGS. OH NO.

Oh, Karl Urban. I appreciate your accent efforts.

....... lol that look Spock and McCoy exchanged about the necklace. Um. Okay. I won't read into that, don't worry, not at all.

HEY HEY HEY THEY LET MCCOY JOIN THE KIRK AND SPOCK SHOW AT THE END WOW THANKS IT'S LIKE IT'S NOT JUST THE TWO OF THEM. AND NOW THEY'RE ALL DOING THE "THESE ARE THE VOYAGES" SPEECH. That's a nice touch.

Okay, this one was the best of the three movies by a lot. Still not. Y'know... great. But they introduced a new character I liked. They had some good Spock and McCoy moments, even if they pretended that the TOS relationship was intact. They let Uhura exist outside of Spock for a while. Scotty got some really great moments. Overall, I'm not as angry as I was while watching the other two!

But now I'm going to watch some TOS, and the next episode I have queued up is Journey to Babel, so. I'm much happier about that. (Yes, this is a call back to the gif I used up top. Look at me, tying things together like a cohesive story would.)

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Supernatural Season 6 | The Lost Souls Of The USS Yorktown.

Absolutely love their looks in the sound booth, so I can’t wait to get to that scene and what they are talking about. Yes, I waited this long to actually watch the episode. I like this being as genuine as possible.

That’s one hell of a large boat, yeah. I love it. I’ve seen the aesthetic for this episode and I’m excited for all the edits we can do with it, lol.

“Smarty pants glasses”, and Shane’s old glasses being to small for his head is the biggest Glasses For Life mood.

They sitting so close, it makes the set look smaller lmao. I also love that the way their seats are... fixed? make Shane be at Ryan’s height so they are equals while talking about these things they don’t agree in but ultimately respect the other’s opinion.

Ryan’s done face as Shane talks about the place is me all the time. “You done? We don’t have bullets flying avobe our heads”, he was having none of Shane’s shit and you can actually see Shane realizing maybe he shouldn’t have played with that. The story of this thing is kinda heavy, what it says about everything it “won” from war and so, history with japanese... I get it.

You know, people were so heavily scared about their relationship in this episode, the amount of messages I got about this actually made me say to myself, “is that bad? am I going to start crying watching this?” and it’s been a few minutes and I get it, I see why it may had been kind of uncomfortable. Not to mention they looked tired as fuck in the actual location, come on. Guys. Don’t.

“I can understand why you would see me as the enemy” see what I mean. Yeez. “I’m your friend”, Ryan you are too precious for this world and if ghosts don’t wanna talk to you, it’s their lost.

“He is a good guy! He has never done anything suspicious to me, or seem to want to bomb me in any way” Good White Friend Shane is a fave.

Shane calling the ghosts racists is such a Good White Friend thing, I love it. But also, Ryan’s happy face as he thinks the ghosts may be scared of him, fjbnvidnfir CUTE.

Ryan using the spirit box to make Shane shut up it’s a mood.

They look so tired, I hope they slept ten hours after filming this.

“that’s the dumbest story I’ve ever heard”, Shane the boy scout must had been a delight at horror story time while camping.

“Why is it watching me?” “‘Cause it’s creepy” LMAO

I really like how Ryan looks it some of these takes. Do I like dirty looking men that I know are actually nice and won’t hurt me because I just admire them through the internet? Maybe so.

Why are they so excited about a little chair? fjdnidsnfisnfinefr. “Well, I feel dirty. Am I sitting in you right now?” *shakes head*, why has this show turned out so horny this season?

Ryan saying people wants them both to shut up after five minutes of meeting them it’s such a Thing because I can totally see them as those friends who wrap each other in their own world and end up talking to each other when they were talking to another person, concentrated on their own conversation for several minutes until “oh, but like I was saying” and the third person is just.... not there anymore.

“Little guy needs a win”, alright. I see. Love Shane’s monologues as he is hot as hell, sweating like crazy and having a crisis about his career and what he does for a living is me every day of my life.

“As soon as I see a ghost, I’m walking” lmao. His eyes, he really looks hella tired. I wonder what hour it is and how much they were traveling before filming, poor guys. This season was really filmed quickly, I remember we actually thought it may be shorter because it looked like they weren’t going to many locations thanks to how little they shared. Turns out, they shared so little because they were filming back to back, probably too tired to even remember they have an audience to hype.

I don’t remember having seen anyone talking about whatever Ryan saw in there. It looks like nothing to me, but I’m hella blind and haven’t changed my glasses in like ten years. Most people here on tumblr are skeptics, and very rude ones at it, so I understand why there was no talk on this and just worrisome about their relationship, but uhm-- I’m surprised they put this on the episode since you can’t really see anything.

What is that Shane has on his palm? Looks like a burn, I wonder if he was cooking and got burned (yeah, this is what I look at while watching this).

I’m in love with Shane’s long hair and I’m still crying about him cutting it. Also, Ryan looks so incredibly small in the sound booths, Shane really is that fucking tall.

Love how even when Ryan is saying he knows Shane won’t agree with him, instead of looking annoyed or angry, he keeps grinning up at him. That super wide smile of his, I swear. Why is people worried about them being friends, damn.

#buzzfeed unsolved #ryan bergara #shane madej #bfu #supernatural #ss6 #uss yorktown ep #your local nerd talking.txt #text*#ss6*#ss6text*#mine

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fireinmywoods · 5 years ago

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Homie. In a recent tag you mentioned how happy bones seems in beyond, which leads me to think... Did he just like... Not notice that Jim was having a bummer of a time?? I mean, him was gonna straight up quit his dream job. Is it just that Jim is too good at hiding it or what? I can never decide what I think for that headcanon. Sometimes I pretend that bones is the only one who knew about the voice admiral thing because it depresses me less.

I can definitely sympathize with where you’re coming from. One of the reasons I focus so much on Yorktown as a turning point in Jim and Bones’s relationship is that that disconnect does seem so weird at first glance, and it’s exponentially weirder if you say they’re already together at that point. Here’s where I’ve come down on it:

anagnorisis gets into why I personally think Jim didn’t tell Bones about the vice-admiral position. It was an impulsive decision and he didn’t really think through the consequences of what it would mean to actually get it, on top of which he’s never been able to put 2 and 2 together and figure out what Bones is to him. Plus, you know, depression isn’t known for making you a real clear thinker with realistic outlooks on your prospects and interpersonal relationships. Jim doesn’t think this is something Bones can or should have to help him with; it’s his problem, and he just has to deal with it and try not to be a burden on the people he cares about. (See also: making a weak attempt to ask Scotty to hang, then immediately retreating after Scotty’s soft refusal and not even trying to ask anyone else.) That’s just how mental health stuff be sometimes. It’s one thing to see that your arm is broken and recognize that you need a doctor to fix it; it’s a whole different kettle of fish to convince your own lying brain that you’re not a useless waste of other people’s time and you deserve help to get out of the hole you’re in.

As for Leonard’s side of things, my take is that he did notice Jim was struggling and he was trying his best to hang onto him in a way that wouldn’t make him withdraw any further. Jim has...issues, to put it delicately, and Leonard has learned the hard way that if he comes on too strong when Jim’s feeling vulnerable, he runs the risk of Jim lashing out at him or closing himself off entirely - as he did after Pike’s death, with devastating consequences. Leonard blamed himself for not better handling Jim’s spiral and saving him from himself (which you’ll read more about in the hateful ST:ID fic, CAN’T WAIT, WHAT A FUN TIME THAT IS), and when he succeeded in bringing Jim back he vowed to never let him down that way again.

Now, Jim’s come a long way in the intervening years, but Leonard has good reason to be worried that if he pushes Jim too hard, Jim might pull away or shut him out in his attempt to pretend everything is FINE, JUST FINE, DON’T WORRY ABOUT ME.

So from this perspective, we do see Leonard quietly trying to be there for Jim and help him figure his shit out. He makes a point of celebrating Jim’s birthday and is blunt but compassionate during their talk in the bar. I don’t think it’s unrealistic to imagine that (as he does in the pverse telling of things) he would comm Jim shortly after their arrival on Yorktown and suggest meeting up, having realized that Jim’s probably holed up alone sulking somewhere. And he throws Jim the party, because he recognizes that Jim is feeling disconnected and down on himself and that he could use a reminder of how many people care about him.

It’s also worth noting that Leonard isn’t exactly some master of healthy emotional processing himself. Sure, as I was blathering about in my tags, he does seem noticeably more relaxed and at ease in Beyond, which is largely a reflection of having spent years rebuilding a life for himself around his work and his relationship with Jim - but there’s a reason they both joke about him being “Mr. Sensitive.” He’s a gruff, no-horseshit kind of dude who feels things very strongly but doesn’t like to spend a lot of time examining those feelings, and he’s not great at expressing himself verbally when it comes to the softer side of the emotional spectrum. I see his actions in Beyond as him trying to show rather than tell: to be there for Jim and take care of him in ways lowkey enough that Jim won’t instinctively reject them.

In fact, I’ll go one step further and contend that Leonard is mimicking exactly what Jim’s always done for him when he’s going through a depressive episode. (As described in section 3 of craquelure.) Words are hard, especially for emotionally stunted dumpster fires like Bones and Jim, and sometimes as much as you want to make everything better for someone, there’s no silver bullet to fix what they’re going through. Often just being there with them in the trenches is the best you can do.

Or you can pull your head out of your ass and realize that the elusive, nebulous thing you’ve spent your whole life searching for is literally standing right in front of you assessing you for head trauma. That works too.

#ask #unculturedmamoswine #fic related #otp: bedside manner #mckirk #mccoy #kirk #star trek #aos

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archathiums · 6 years ago

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Another abbreviated, watered down, sleep deprived history lesson, but this time it’s all about literally the hottest founding father we have- Alexander Hamilton.

I mean have you seen him on the 10 dollar bill?

Anyways, so this is directly for @alexanderhamiltonlive the boy who deserves someone not trying to shit on him at least 23/7, I mean really. Anyways.

So the Ham man is born in the Caribbean, specifically Nevis, and obviously there’s some real strenuous circumstances, like you know- being born out of wedlock, nearly dying thanks to hurricanes and disease, being orphaned as a child.

You’d think this is enough to make anyone like, turn over and go back to Fucking bed, like “thanks god, I really fucking appreciate it- I’ll try again tomorrow.”

Instead this tiny Ham is so fucking smart, despite the fact the schools were like “no Bastard Orphans allowed.” He starts working for a really shady creep named Cruger and his trading company. And despite having literally no formal education he’s making these adults look like fucking idiots, he’s so smart, he’s like 13 and handling the goddamn finances for a fuckin’ trading company. And garbage boy Cruger is like “shit, I wonder how much money you could make me if you had a formal education.” So they raise money to send Hamilton to the mainland and are like “okay- get smart and come back.”

And Hamilton is like “lol k.” Cause obviously that’s exactly what he’s NOT gonna do.

Anyways, he gets to America, and shows up at King’s college like the lil’ 15 year old twerp he is kicking the door in yelling about graduating early and everyone’s just kind of like “whatever if you want to or something..?” And that’s when he meets Mulligan.

He’s got a bunch of other friends like Robert Troup, but the play doesn’t like them, so we don’t like them.

So the war is finally kicking off, and I like to think Hamilton’s college days were the equivalent of this—as a bunch of frat boys banging on shit in the street, yelling “come at me bro.” At the British.

They join in with a militia with a bunch of other students call themselves the “Hearts of Oak” make up a bunch of drills to practice in preparation. They’re actively fighting and one of my favorite goddamn moments in existence is The Battle of Princeton and just how much nonchalant big dick energy Hamilton radiated when STEALING FUCKING CANONS. I MEAN LITERALLY I NEED TO FIND THE MULLIGAN QUOTE—

‘I was engaged in hauling off one of the cannons, when Mister Hamilton came up and gave me his musket to hold and he took hold of the rope. . . . Hamilton [got] away with the cannon. I left his musket in the Battery and retreated. As he was returning, I met him and he asked for his piece. I told him where I had left it and he went for it, notwithstanding the firing continued, with as much concern as if the [Asia] had not been there.’

Like I’m so fucking?????? JUST waltzed back across into enemy lines to get his fucking gun?? Stops to look st a redcoat like “hey man, nice weather we’re having hear? Good for war.” Casual as fuck.

Anyways, flash forward a bit, Ham man is suddenly like a hot fuckin commodity. His brain and his recklessness has all the military leaders fighting for him as a secretary. Washington ends up winning and boom he’s an Aide-de-camp.

Things a pretty great until pretty boy John Laurens comes in from London like “hi I’m here to fight a war and be gay while doing it.”

They’re disaster gays, or well, Hams a disaster bisexual— but I don’t need to tell everyone how gay it was. We. All. Know.

He’s besties with Lafayette and Laurens. (alexanderhamiltonlive claims he’s kissed Lafayette once, but I have a firm stance on: PICS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN.)

But point is, they’re called the ‘gay trio’ they’re just fucking besties constantly getting shot and fighting in a war. Lafayette rivals Laurens in just how often one of them gets WIA.

There’s not much I really need to explain in this I feel? We all know he got command of a battalion eventually, and beat some British ass in the battle of Yorktown.

Around this time Hamilton is married to Elizabeth Schuyler. There’s not much to know on where Laurens and Hamilton stood at that point, my firm opinion is that he just— marriage was important in political careers. And Hamilton was poly. we know you can love multiple people.

Now whether or not Laurens was cool with that is a different story, but that’s a different topic.

We win the war!! There’s party poppers everywhere, it’s like a week long party.

Hamilton goes back to school, passes the bar pretty quickly, graduates becomes a lawyer and pretty much single handedly shapes our judicial system. Like he gets credit for being the founding father of our economy but he did so much god damn more. And Hamilton was an excellent lawyer.

But he’s also a little shit who basically went ‘go big or go home.’ And took all the ridiculously hard cases. AND. WON. THEM. He made a name for himself.

So then he goes into working as secretary treasury and spends all his goddamn time arguing with a bunch of old racist white men. And then we have the Reynolds affair which I’m about to get real biased on for a second.

A lot of people give Hamilton flack for being a slut, but I think we’re thinking through the 21st century lense on it. There’s theories that Hamilton was bipolar and manic episodes that can cause you to write over 50 essays in the federalist papers can also impact you negatively.

We know James Reynolds was a con man, we know Hamilton made a mistake, but there’s so many more factors playing into than just Hamilton going “heehee, helpless pretty girl.”

People forget that charisma can be very flirtatious but it doesn’t correlate to lose morals. Hamilton wasn’t a slut, he was a romantic sure- it’s very clear Ham man was the type of person who fell in love ridiculously hard and fast, but we also forget he was human, he made mistakes.

And at the end of the day he did pay for those mistakes.

He didn’t get off scotch free with his affair. There’s too many attributing factors to the affair, it was already a sketchy situation, the bipolar mania and lack of knowledge or study on mental disorders, the level of charisma that Hamilton possessed that made people pay attention to him. Dumbing it down to “Alexander Hamilton is a slut” is just bad critical thinking skills.

We also know Laurens death has a major effect on Hamilton, it shut him off and in some cases made him reckless, but there are things for certain- Alexander Hamilton was not a bad person or father, there are a lot of accounts in writing that show he had the mentality of “kind to my loved ones, vicious to my enemies” and when you’re surrounded by enemies, that’s kind of the only real face you see.

I don’t have to describe the duel, we all know how it went down, Hamilton threw away his shot, Burr shot him and ran away, losing him was losing a great potential

president. Which hella sucks.

#historically queer figures #alexander hamilton #revolutionary war #colonial era #mini biography #i will defend hamilton with my dying breath

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svnflcwcrs · 5 years ago

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( starfleet memorabilia, pristine uniforms, swinging ponytail, annoyed expressions ) –– && it looks like nyota uhura has finally arrived in woodshore ( though she originates from star trek ). although known as a COLD-HEARTED back home, here they are a thirty-nine-year-old ( in ) communications, known to be ASTUTE, but BLUNT. they were coaxed here with the promise of THE CREW. they remember DOCKING AT STARBASE YORKTOWN. ( zoe saldana )

so this is nyota uhura from STRA TREKK: 2009, i’ve seen only scattered episodes of the OG series, so she is EXCLUSIVELY from the movies only. if i do happen to see more, i will add as much as i can from the og as i can.

anyhow, if you have not seen star trek or are unfamiliar with uhura - she is apart of starfleet as a communications officer - she specializes in xenolinguistics, which is the study of alien languages. honestly, we STAN a queen who knows different languages especially those who know many alien languages.

uhura is really feisty and can be easily annoyed, she could possibly be hard to deal with at times, but she is very caring. especially towards the end of the first movie / the two sequels.

she adores her job and the crew she works with. uhura has a SLIGHT power struggle with james t. kirk - captain of the enterprise, but both grow to enjoy each other’s company. as much as she thinks he’s a dumbass, she knows he’s a brilliant man and captain - she will always point out when he’s being an idiot, though - it’s a fact.

so uhura is intelligent, quite feisty, speaks her mind - she really isn’t afraid of anything. and honestly, she loves the crew she works with - she really deserves more love out here. so PLEASE LOVENYOTA UHURA - she deserves that. OH and she’s badass woman from space so like, you be the judge - who wouldn’t want to be friend !?!????

she’s canon up to star trek beyond, so love here

also here’s her wiki for more about this badass space babe and here’s more about her job on starship enterprise

i’m not good with intros i am SO SORRY

#��—I SURE HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING… CAPTAIN ( nyota uhura )#woodshore: intro

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S1 Rewatch - Maddi's Take [1.07]

favourite scene: I meeeeean… can anyone argue with any scene from this ep? Levels of iconic thus far unreached perhaps… The paint balloon fight scene, I can just imagine being incredible. Then again, we also have the scene where Lucas and Isa stage the techie walk out which is legendary. Plus there is the scenes where we get to see some of Farkle and Zay’s struggles! I mean, in an episode that is meant to kind of villainise the performers, we actually get to see some real complexities to those two which is amazing.

favourite performance: Yorktown! I have never seen or listened to Hamilton, but I love my boy Zay and this song is a masterpiece! so I would happily watch this performance, with everyone together. That said, I have to shout out to Zay and Charlie in the paint fight, plus the techies singing Fall Out Boy… beautiful

favourite character (within the context of the episode): This is out of Zay and Lucas. Zay had some deep moments and iconic lines here plus he is so passionate about performing and being true to his wants and hopes. Then Lucas… I can’t resist that cute smirky face ugh in his cool black boots tryna be all rebellious like that….slouching smugly in Jack’s office and o m l scooping up Riley and carrying her off stage I’m sORRY excuse u sir, excuse u? how dare you be this endearing

favourite line: Zay’s speech to Farkle would be a good answer, but we also have one of the greatest lines of the season spoken by Isadora: Don’t patronize me, Minkus, you don’t want to see what this “little” director is capable of.

WOW. This is also the ep where we get “That’s certainly not nothing.” liek okayyyy we get it u love himmm Rilessss

an underrated moment: MULTIPLE HUGS one of which will be the answer to the next question. For right here we will have the moment where Dave hug-tackles Lucas and cries out that they’re dying.

something i missed the first time around: ZARLIE HUG. THAT’S ALL. actually I don’t even know if I missed it but it certainly wasn’t something I remembered. 10/10 would pay to see and/or have burned into my memory.

first impression vs your reread impression: We start to get very into the AAAC in this one which of course we know a lot more about now! By this time I’m sure I had theories of who was the mastermind but now I find myself more focused on little moments like Riley seeing Lucas and Isa as a couple before later in the episode gaining clarification from Isa. Mostly, Riley is obsessed with Lucas. That’s the vibe fam! as Lucas would say - (:

“we get it u love himmm Rilessss” NFDSKLGLDSG ME. maybe so... points were made, but I love what you said about how this ep villainizes the performers but then also allows them the same humanity as usual. that’s such an interesting point! but yeah, dave and lucas hug, lucas carrying riley, dylan getting paint out of asher’s hair, zay and charlie hugging... there’s certainly MUCH coming together going on in this ep under the surface... god rest in peace charles jp gardner, he probably disintegrated the moment zay pulled him in for that embrace. pour one out, legends only,

riley is obsessed with lucas......... as the kids say, maybe so...

#S1 reread #S2 countdown #submission #MAYBE SO!!!!!!!!#1x07

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samingtonwilson · 8 years ago

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Return - Part 4 - Jim Kirk

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Summary: series following the events of loot– takes place during events of star trek beyond. in this chapter, you’re on familiar ground that seems to be breaking under your feet.

Warnings: language, a bit of violence (but it’s canon)

A/N: i’m still tagging those i used to tag for loot, tell me if you want to be removed. this chapter’s a lil long, but it goes from jim’s pov to reader’s and SHIT’S FINALLY GOING DOWN.

Jim was having trouble concentrating.

It began as the woman behind the universal translator, Kalara, told her story. A story of her stranded ship, her endangered crew— a story that was somehow not rousing enough to capture all of Jim’s attention as he stood beside Commodore Paris.

He instead focused on the high-neck of his uniform, the snug nature of the drably colored fabric. He stared at her blankly. He only heard the last of what Kalara spoke— she needed a ship capable of navigating the nebula, she needed someone who could help her.

He lost his concentration once more as he looked over the holographic representation of her ship in Commodore Paris’ office, a representation of the nebula it was trapped in. He was focusing on the colors— the blue of the ship, the red and gold of the nebula— and the whirring of the images rather than focus on the coordinates Commodore Paris read out to him with the rasp of her voice.

“We tracked her stranded ship to a sector of uncharted nebula, here at 210-mark-14,” she said, frowning as she watched the holograms Jim was so enthralled with.

Jim walked around the desk to a glowing screen several feet from the image of the nebula and cleared his throat. He told himself to focus, to get out of his own head. “Uh,” he started, mentally scolding himself already. “Long-range scan?”

She stood on the opposite side of the large room, watching Jim as he poked and prodded the touch-screen and increased the size of the nebula to get a better look at the glowing holo. “No data. The nebula is too dense— it’s uncharted space.”

As if on reflex, Jim offered, “Well, the Enterprise does have the best navigational system in the fleet. She could handle it.”

He smiled politely once he finished speaking, taking his eyes from Commodore Paris and scanning the room. The windows that lined the walls opened up to skyscrapers and hovercrafts, their sounds muted by the mechanical whirring to his right and the loud thumps deep inside him.

He wasn’t sure if he’d only offered out of formality— or if he was ready to go out into deep space so soon. His feet had been on the ground for a day and, granted it wasn’t the best day, he still wanted more.

He wanted to breathe lazily so the air hit every corner of his lungs, he wanted to stop shaving his cheeks for even a day. He wanted to train himself to appreciate his reflection again, rather than scowl each time he caught sight of his exhaustion. Hell, he just wanted to wake up each morning without a clue of what he would do throughout the day— he wanted to do away with routine, do away with each rerun episode his life was replaying as if on constant loop. He wanted a break.

His uncertainty for why he offered arose from a single thought, though— did he really want to walk around Yorktown with the possibility of seeing you at any time? He thought that, maybe subconsciously, his immediate offering of the Enterprise was derived from defense, from armoring himself against you to the point that he couldn’t stay on the same planet.

He thought the part of him that didn’t trust you, the part that was still so furious, might have wanted a break from the rest of him— the part of him that wanted to stay on Yorktown and “run into” you each day. That angry part could find no relaxation greater than the relaxation banality and directionlessness offered by tedious space travel. It made it so he could keep himself lost within his mind and there was no risk there, no reason to fear anything-- at least he couldn’t lose himself in anyone else.

“The only ship here with more advanced technology is still under construction.” Commodore Paris crossed the room, leant against the tabletop screen, and lifted her gaze to meet Jim’s. There was an apology in her deep brown eyes. “But it’s not just the ship that I’m sending.”

Jim’s dilemma was solved for him. He found himself smiling ruefully as he said, “I’ll gather the crew.”

Before he could walk out of the office, Commodore Paris called out to him. “I’ll also be sending a security officer with knowledge of this case and your ship.”

“That won’t be necessary,” Jim said, shaking his head lightly. “We have an abundance of security officers on our crew—”

“I’m aware. I would be more comfortable, however, sending someone well-versed on the matters of this case as well as well-equipped to navigate the ship without additional assistance from the crew.” She nodded once when Jim continued to stare at her, “For my own assurance.”

Sighing in quiet defeat, he nodded. “Tell them to make it to the loading bay on time— I’ll meet them there.”

“You’ve already met, actually,” she said, glancing at the largest screen embedded into her desk as she pulled a file up to join the many holos already displayed.

As Jim read your name, as he saw your picture, he cursed his luck for having found his heart as it was currently lodged in his throat. He looked back at the Commodore, his mouth fallen open into a shape resembling his wide eyes. The red part of him was losing its solace. “I’m sorry, I assumed she was removed from the Academy due to the arrest.”

“Yes, she and her credits were reinstated recently— security track.”

“Then she’s still a cadet, I presume.”

She nodded, watching Jim tentatively. “Just a course short of graduation. Normally I don’t concern myself with the affairs of the Academy, but I took special interest in her after watching your testimony. Her skills are just as glowing as you described and she has fit-in quite well on the base— I offered her the immediate promotion in wake of these events before you came in this evening, and she accepted.”

There was doubt, denial, and utter despair fogging Jim’s every sense— but the most he could do was nod once. He didn’t want to contradict any bit of his testimony by saying what the red part of him was urging and he didn’t want to enthusiastically accept. He had no choice but to accept, and hated the part of him that celebrated.

“Captain,” she called out once more as he was inches from the door.

He turned around with less gusto this time, his shoulders unable to stay in the stoic position they were once in.

“Starfleet command sent me your application for the Vice Admiral position here at this installation.”

He looked down for a moment and contemplated withdrawing the application.

When he scolded himself this time, though, he told himself not to be so controlled by you, by his feelings for you. The angry, red part of him would lose gas eventually and die down— and the other parts of him needed rest, no matter where that was. He couldn’t let himself be so concerned about what you did to him when you weren’t concerned in any way about it— you were okay and he wasn’t but he wanted to be, he would try to be.

Jim just needed a break. He needed a break from the back-aching perfect posture, from the command gold tunic, from the idea that he would continue to chase something so far out of reach its existence was doubtful. Truthfully, Jim needed a break from being what he thought was himself— he needed to spend time getting to know the person underneath all of it, the person he’d been silencing for years. And a break from the Enterprise, the starting of a new job on Yorktown, would help him do just that.

“Yes, ma’am. Um,” he cleared his throat and looked away. “If I may, I recommend Commander Spock replace me as captain of the Enterprise. He is an exemplary Starfleet officer— he’d make a great captain.”

Commodore Paris smiled at Jim. Her eyes were a bit narrowed and a knowing expression crossed her features. She watched him silently for a few moments until saying, “It isn’t uncommon, you know, even for a captain, to want to leave.”

He didn’t respond.

“There is no relative direction in the vastness of space. There’s only yourself, your ship, your crew— it’s easier than you think, to get lost.”

Jim shook his head. “It’s not about—”

“I’ll bring it up with the General Council. We’ll discuss it when you return.”

In resignation, Jim took that as a goodbye— he almost laughed at the thought that it didn’t seem like an evening for long-winded goodbyes. Just short, one-worded goodbyes like his nod and soft, “Ma’am” before exiting.

Being back on the Enterprise inspired a feeling you couldn’t even explain to yourself. It was a strange mix of anxiousness, satisfaction, nostalgia, paralyzing fear, and a bit of elation. You didn’t know if you wanted to smile or scowl, hunch your shoulders forward or walk with your head held high.

The crew was aware of your previous indiscretions— it was hot gossip that circulated through the starship in no time. Of course, that meant there were whispers surrounding you and clinging to your red uniform dress like lint. You told yourself to be unbothered by it, to not mind what was said one bit because you’d done your time, you’d done all you had to in order to rectify the situation— it wasn’t like you’d broken every heart on board like you’d broken Jim’s and your own.

Besides, you were only on board until you were able to locate the stranded ship and deliver them their captain safe and sound.

But there was comfort in knowing you had Leonard and, according to their behavior the minute they spotted you, you had Uhura, Chekov, and Sulu— they were more than you needed and much more than you expected.

As you walked out of the medbay with Leonard by your side, you pulled the cuffs of your sleeves so they covered your palms. “Is it too late to back out?”

Snorting, he nodded. “It was too late the minute you interrupted my date with your incessant calls.”

“I needed advice,” you shrugged, offering him a half-smile in apology when he looked your way. “And you’re the wisest, sneakiest man I know.”

“What’s sneakiness got to do with it?”

You stood beside him in the turbolift leading to the bridge, leaning against the wall behind you when you felt the ship jolt as it launched. “I just thought I’d mention it since I have yet to kill you for scamming Jim and I into talking.”

“It was gonna happen eventually. I was just the catalyst,” he said, smiling to himself.

“Catalyst, my ass. If anything, it made him hate me more.”

“Don’t confuse love with hate, sweetheart,” he was practically singing as he followed you off the turbolift.

“Don’t plant ideas in my head, Bones.”

“Does Spock know you’re back?”

You shrugged. “Jim or Uhura probably told him by now.”

“I’m sad I missed it.” He sighed out dreamily, “To be a fly on that wall, darlin’.”

The buzz of the bridge seemed to die down as you stepped through the sliding door. Several pairs of eyes flashed to you, then to Jim, then back at the consoles at which each nosy officer was situated.

You snorted softly to yourself and crossed your arms over your chest. You knew you couldn’t let yourself look vulnerable to any of it— what they could have been saying or thinking, what fluttering overwhelmed your chest when you remembered Jim was sitting just a few feet from you.

You smiled as you approached the pink pearlescent-skinned Kalara, standing beside her while Leonard stood as close to you as he could.

You wanted to thank him for being so protective, especially seeing how he stood before you to eclipse any negativity that could be sent your way. Instead, you clasped his hand in yours and gave it a firm squeeze.

He leaned in your direction a bit to bump his shoulder against yours and smiled to himself.

“Lieutenant Uhura, open a ship-wide channel.”

Before flipping the switches required, Uhura said a simple, “Yes, Captain.”

“Attention, crew of the Enterprise,” you almost grimaced at his typical captain voice. It was something you didn’t miss. “Our mission is straightforward. Rescue a crew stranded on a planet in uncharted space. Our trajectory will take us through an unstable nebula—”

“Phenomenal,” Leonard muttered, forcing you to cover your lips with your free hand as you laughed softly.

“ — one which will disable all communications with Starfleet. We’re gonna be on our own.”

Leonard sighed, “Incredible.”

“The Enterprise has something no other ship in the fleet has— you. As we’ve come to understand, there is no such thing as the unknown, only the temporarily hidden.”

“He’s talking about you,” Leonard told you in a whispered voice.

You nudged his ribs with your elbow sharply. “Shut up, I’m trying to listen to the most inspirational speech of the century.”

Leonard only shook in silent laughter as his response.

“Kirk out.”

There were rumbles outside the ship and flashes of lightning that did little to illuminate the bridge once the overhead lights were lost. Each of the faces around you was visible only because of said lightning and the nebula’s orange glow.

As you and Leonard exchanged glances, Jim looked up at Spock. He traced the stoic, plain features of his First Officer and imagined to himself how Spock could look so unbothered, so calm when the ship shook and darkness overtook them. Jim thought he should learn from the pointy-eared, bowl-haired half-Vulcan, maybe ask if he could do a brief tutorial on the secrets of being unaffected.

After a collection of silent minutes, Chekov’s hum broke you out of the daze that kept your vision locked on the cracks of lightning ripping through the black backdrop. “Readings indicate cloud density diminishing, sir.”

Ten flashes of lightning passed within the following seconds and a computerized voice spoke to your left. “This is Altamid. My ship is stranded here.”

You repeated that to yourself in your head— Altamid. Something about it felt strange, as did the coordinates you’d seen in the case file— you thought you might recognize them if you looked a little harder but had no such luck. That familiarity was the basis of your interest in the case.

As the ship moved closer to the planet that was a shade of blue resembling Earth, the bridge lights flickered on. You took a half-step closer to Leonard.

“Approaching Altamid,” Spock stated, his voice rumbling through the otherwise silent bridge. He fussed with the console before him. “Class M planet. Massive subterranean development. But limited to no life forms on the surface.”

A low beeping began. Chekov started to shift. “Proximity alert, sir. We have an unknown ship heading right for us.”

You noticed Kalara stare at the Russian navigator, her eyes a bit wide and her posture tense.

The beeping grew louder, Leonard’s grip on your hand grew tighter.

“Lieutenant Uhura, hail them,” Jim said, his voice still and unwavering.

“Yes, Captain.”

The siren’s whining beeps continued as Uhura flipped another set of switches and toyed with the knobs on her console, her almond-shaped eyes narrowing. “No response,” she continued. “I am picking up some kind of signal.”

You looked away from the viewing screen and met Kalara’s gaze. She was still shifting, her fingers shook slightly, her face showed something far from indifference— there was emotion saturating her entire being and it worried you. Something felt off.

“They’re jamming us,” Uhura stated, her voice tuned with confusion as the usually smooth skin of her forehead creased.

Jim rose from his chair and started towards the screen— you continued to stare at the woman beside you, though. “Magnify, Mr. Sulu.”

You looked at Leonard and pulled on his hand to gain his attention. “Something’s off.”

“What do you—”

There were several high-pitched beeps from the viewing screen that grabbed your attention, the ship displayed there massive as it seemed to be shifting, constantly moving and changing shape.

Jim turned to look at the stranded captain beside you. His eyebrows were knit together and his shoulders were pulled back. “What is this?”

She only looked between you, Jim, and Leonard wordlessly. Her fingers continued to shake, her feet constantly in shifty motion, her face reflecting apprehension.

“Shields up! Red alert!” Jim shouted before a loud alarm blared throughout the bridge. The lights bordering each console glowed with a red brighter than your uniform and everyone jumped into action.

Suddenly, the shape-shifting ship before the Enterprise dissipated— thousands of tiny, almost housefly-like ships exploded across the sky and headed towards the flagship of the fleet.

“Fire at will,” Jim called.

Red beams emitted from the Enterprise and were somehow useless against the flies. Sulu fired several other, larger torpedoes and they went by with minimal impact.

You turned to Kalara and tried to tune out the alarm’s blaring and Chekov’s voice as he spoke to Jim. You placed your hand on her upper arm and gripped tighter than you should have. “You know what’s happening, don’t you?”

She only stared at you.

You traced the pink rope-like grooves that began above her forehead and clung to her scalp until meeting with her neck to then follow her stressed limbs that shook minutely. You tried to speak over your heart’s nervous thudding in your ears. “You have to tell me something— we’re here for your ship, for God’s sake.”

“Captain, we are not equipped for this manner of engagement,” Spock said from behind you.

You looked at the viewing screen again and the small ships that seemed so ineffectual from farther away now resembled the most vicious bullets. As they pelted the ship in every direction, you had to grip onto the console in your vicinity for balance.

A loud crash rang through the ship and Chekov shouted, “Shield frequencies have no effect, sir!”

“They took out the dish,” Sulu added. “Shields are inoperable.”

“Warp us out of here, Mr. Sulu,” Jim said before turning around to face you. “Did she say anything?”

“No, she won’t speak.” You swallowed. “Captain, no science survey ship could survive this kind of impact.”

“What are you saying?”

“There’s no ship to rescue. I think she has something to do with this.”

Jim sat down and sighed loudly. “Why aren’t we moving?”

“I can’t engage the warp drive, sir,” Sulu answered. The shaking of his voice sounded like every scream you held inside of you.

“Scotty, I need warp now,” Jim said, his head pointed towards the receiver in his chair.

You heard a worrisome, out of breath Scottish voice on the other line, “I cannae, sir. The nacelles, they’ve— They’ve gone.”

Jim somehow managed to keep his calm, his arms set atop the rests and his voice clear as he stated, “Security, engage all emergency procedures. Active protocol 28 Code One Alpha Zero. All personnel to alert stations.”

Just as you were about to leave, Jim turned to face you. “Not you. You’re here to watch her, you stay with her. Get her to talk.”

“Captain, —”

“That’s an order.”

You watched as Spock and Leonard left their respective locations on the bridge to enter the closest turbolifts. When you finally focused on the woman you were meant to be helping, you sighed out and said to yourself in a soft, dry voice, “Welcome back to the Enterprise, (Y/N).”

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justanothercinemaniac · 8 years ago

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Epic Movie (Re)Watch #161 - Star Trek Beyond

(GIF originally posted by @forquicksilver)

Spoilers Below

Have I seen it before: Yes

Did I like it then: Yes.

Do I remember it: Yes.

Did I see it in theaters: Yes.

Was it a movie I saw since August 22nd, 2009: Yes. #440

Format: Blu-ray

1) The preproduction for this film was slightly troubled. JJ Abrams was committed to Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens so co-writer of the first two films Robert Orci signed on as director. He ended up leaving production though, taking his cinematographer with him, and it was a little while before Justin Lin (Fast and the Furious 3 - 6) was hired to replace him. Writers Simon Pegg and Doug Jung reportedly wrote the script in a bit of a hurry as they still had a release date to meet. But at the end the film turned out really well, so everything worked out in the end.

2) This film was released during the 50th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise.

Having said that, the work done by writers Pegg and Jung as well as Lin’s direction I think help to make the film feel like a balance between old Trek and new Trek. I’ll get into more details on that as I go along.

3) The opening scene.

The opening has an incredible sense of fun and humor to it (with the aliens Kirk is trying to break peace with seemingly gigantic and ending up being the size of a chihuahua) and honestly feels like it could be the concept of an episode for the original “Star Trek” TV show (says the guy who’s never seen an episode of the original series). It establishes some of the lighter/funner tone this film will feature compared to the titular darkness of Into Darkness as well as Kirk’s initial conflict in the film. It is a wonderful beginning.

4) Kirk’s tiredness.

Kirk is three years into his five year mission in space (which, in a not-so-coincidental-way, is how long the original series got before cancellation) and it is starting to weigh on him.

Kirk [in his captain’s log]: “As for me things have started to feel a little...episodic.”

There’s no direction in space, it is just infinite and that is starting to weigh on Kirk. It has him questioning the point of it all. It has him questioning who he is.

Kirk [after commenting he’s now a year older on his birthday]: “A year older than [my father] got to be. He joined Starfleet because he believed in it. I joined on a dare.”

Bones: “You joined to see if you could live up to him. [Mentions how Kirk has spent all this time trying to be like his dad.] Now you’re wondering what it means to be Jim.”

And it is through the fire of conflict in this film that Kirk will reclaim his identity and who exactly he is.

5) The release of this film was given an unexpected dose of sorrow as actor Anton Yelchin tragically passed away about a month before the film’s release.

There is a scene early in the film where Bones and Kirk drink some Scotch they found in Chekov’s locker. They pour three glasses, the third one being for “absent friends” (as in those we’ve lost who could not be here now). The absent friend I believe was meant to be Kirk’s later father, who the pair are talking about. But in the wake of Anton Yelchin’s passing the scene takes on a much more somber meaning and feels more like a tribute to him. After the film’s release I read on IMDb that the scene was included to pay tribute to Yelchin, but I can no longer find that piece of trivia suggesting it may have been false. Either way, it is impossible to divorce Chekov from that scene or the unintended tribute it pays to the late actor. I’m going to miss seeing you in the movie, Anton.

6) Yorktown.

Yorktown is quite possibly the stand out new element introduced into the film. The space station/outpost/colony/whatever is visually outstanding. Most space stations in film are defined by rigid edges and sharp boundaries but Yorktown is circular. It’s fluid, it’s organic, it moves into and through each other like a planet. Some of the camera tricks and technical aspects used to show off this new location is great. It also has an incredible atmosphere to it which ties directly into the sense of hope this franchise is all about. The air is clean, the sky is bright, multiple alien species are working in unity, and Giacchino’s again excellent score just lifts up the sense of optimism that bleeds through this place. It is a wonderful addition to not only this film but Trek lore as a whole.

7) This film introduces what I believe is Star Trek’s first canon gay character by revealing that John Cho’s Hikaru Sulu is in a partnership with another man.

(GIF originally posted by @maclexa-bane)

However, this decision had one person surprisingly against it. Original Sulu actor and LGBT activist George Takei himself. Here is an excerpt from an article covering this in the Hollywood Reporter.

"I’m delighted that there’s a gay character," he tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Unfortunately, it’s a twisting of Gene’s creation, to which he put in so much thought. I think it’s really unfortunate."

Takei would take to social media a week later to clarify - but not disavow - his statement.

“I hoped instead that [Star Trek creator] Gene Roddenberry’s original characters and their backgrounds would be respected. How exciting it would be instead if a new hero might be created, whose story could be fleshed out from scratch, rather than reinvented. To me, this would have been even more impactful.”

I personally disagree with Takei. As a film student I can say that there seems to be this strange devotion to the “vision” of something. A decision will or won’t be made based on its support of the “original vision”. The original vision of something is almost totally irrelevant to what something actually is, however. Takei’s statements seem to be largely out of his respect for original creator Gene Rodenberry, which I can understand. But imagine some gay kid today LOVES the Star Trek movies and its characters. That kid is not going to care about Gene Rodenberry’s original vision, he is going to care about what Star Trek is today. I think seeing an already established (and incredibly important character) like Sulu express his sexuality in an open and accepted way is very much in line with what Star Trek is today (and will also have more of an impact on that kid than introducing a new character who they have no emotional investment in, but that's just my personal belief).

The franchise has transcended Rodenberry or any one person involved. It is about unity (a major theme in this film), diversity, tolerance, and hope. And as long as it respects these core beliefs which make Star Trek what it is than I think it does more than respect Rodenberry’s original vision. It respects Star Trek.

8) I am going to talk about Spock and Uhura’s breakup and Spock Prime’s death, I promise. Just later.

9) Even though JJ Abrams did NOT direct this film, Greg Grunberg is still featured in it!

Grunberg is JJ Abrams’ lucky charm, appearing in almost all his films (notably absent from Star Trek into Darkness) in one form or another. And even though Abrams serves only as producer on this flick Grunberg still gets a part. Yay!

10) I like that Commodore Paris (one of the Starfleet higher ups at Yorktown) takes the time to say this to Kirk:

Commodore Paris: “It isn’t uncommon you know, even for a captain. To want to leave.”

It’s a common problem people have in life, the loss of identity. And of course it makes sense that it happens to Starfleet officers. Nothing is defined in space. It’s just space.

11) The skirmish between Kraal’s crew and the Enterprise is great.

As a way of introducing the primary plot into the film, it shows a clear lack of preparedness on the part of the Enterprise crew which is a great place to start the conflict and move forward. A, “started from the bottom,” type way. The film opening with such a heavy thrashing and the destruction of the Enterprise leaves a strong impact on the audience. You know these bad guys are people you do not want to mess with, you don’t even want to be in the same room as them. They just took down one of the best starships ever in a matter of minutes. The scene features great action, nice surprises, and is incredibly well paced. As the first major action set piece for the film, it is truly great.

12)

Kirk: “Abandon ship, Mr. Sulu.”

There is literally NO question from Sulu and only a the hesitation needed to process that request. He doesn’t even say, “Sir?” There’s no doubt in his mind. That is how much he trusts his captain and that is how well he knows his ship to admit when it’s done.

13) Idris Elba as Krall.

I will forever be upset that Suicide Squad won the Oscar for Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling when this film is PACKED with some of the most amazing practical creatures and aliens I have seen in years. You don’t have to look any further than Krall to see that. Idris Elba is not giving an animated performance, he’s not motion capture (not to knock motion capture actors, they’re some of the most under appreciated geniuses in Hollywood). That’s him. He is able to deliver a menacing and powerful performance through strong physicality. Elba does not play Krall as human and he shouldn’t. A huge factor for the character is that he’s lost his humanity. He is a beastly shade of his former self, motivated only by madness. I think Krall may be the best villain of this new trilogy (although it’s hard for me to be objective because Nero is still my favorite). Honestly, Elba freaking kills it as Krall and I don’t think they could have cast anyone to do a better job.

From a writing standpoint, Krall just gets more and more interesting as the film goes on.

Krall [after Uhura claims he has made an act of war against the federation]: “Federation act of war!”

But more on this later.

14) This film benefits from unique groupings for a good part of the film. Bones/Spock are the most prominent, but it’s not often you get to see Kirk and Chekov interact one-on-one or Uhura and Sulu. But for now, let’s talk about Bones & Spock.

I don’t think Bones and Spock get as much one on one time as they do in this film and I am so grateful for that. It provides a unique examination of their usually humorously tense interactions which was touched upon in The Search for Spock. I’ll discuss this more as I go (in one scene in particular), but they are able to be vulnerable around each other. Let their guards down, be totally honest, and make their friendship even stronger.

15) Sofia Boutella as Jaylah.

I fucking love Jaylah. So much. I want more Jaylah.

To start, her design is incredibly unique and memorable. It helps her standout from not only the rest of the Enterprise crew but the rest of the inhabitants on the planet as well. And from the strong visual you are able to build into a living, breathing, unique character. She fits into the crew dynamics (particularly through her relationship with Scotty) wonderfully well and she is a kick ass queen. She is a technical genius with no training or teaching, able to set up a number of booby traps/cloak the Franklin/keep auxiliary power going. She has this deep pain that is in direct relation to Kirk’s. Her father - her entire family - died trying to save her, just as Kirk’s did. She has fears, she has strengths, she loves punk music! Jaylah on paper is amazing and actress Sofia Boutella is incredible in the part. Boutella is able to portray all of Jaylah’s wonderful layers - her badass exterior, her painful past, her growth and dealing with her fears - beautifully. Boutella is a star on the rise in Hollywood (already having starred in Kingsman and appearing as the title character in the new Mummy film coming out soon) and to date this is - I think - her best performance. She is just SO good.

A quick final note: it has been said by the filmmakers that they will not be recasting Chekov after Anton Yelchin’s death. I want Jaylah to take his place on the bridge. Because I fucking love Jaylah.

16) The relationship Jaylah and Scotty forge is so fun and heartfelt. Jaylah is able to constantly surprise Scotty and show that she’s his equal in a lot of ways, but when it comes to the pain of her past Scotty is able to help her deal with that. It’s one of my favorite relationships explored in the film and I hope to see it continue in the future.

17) The relationship with Kirk and Chekov is explored a little more subtly than say Bones and Spock but it is still there. The fact that Kirk is able to signal Chekov to help him trap the traitor amongst their midsts, and then of course this wonderful piece of dialogue.

(GIFs originally posted by @alecc-bane)

Seeing any two characters have this back and forth suggests they’ve done it before. There’s a comfort there that Chekov is able to talk to Kirk so honestly about his doubts and...I’m sorry, I’m just laughing thinking about this scene. I love the exchange between the pair.

18) So it later turns out that Krall is a captain named Edison from VERY early in the Federation’s life span.

Krall: “Federation has taught you that conflict should not exist.”

Krall [MUCH later]: “We knew pain, we knew terror. Struggle made us strong. Not peace, not unity.”

He is an outdated relic, an ancient ideology in a progressive time who thinks HIS way of life was right. And he’s willing to commit mass genocide because of his outdated and hateful ways. There’s also a lose of identity there, as he tells Kirk in the climax, “I’ve missed being me.” That lose of identity in the face of infinite space is exactly what Kirk is at risk of going through, so there’s a connection there between the two that ties back in to Kirk’s main conflict (something that I love). All in all, Krall’s pain is utterly unique in the Star Trek films I’ve seen and I am impressed with the elegance they were able to write it.

19) Spock and Bones having a heart-to-heart about where Spock is in life is one of the best scenes in the film.

It is in this moment when Spock is at his most vulnerable, and it’s with Bones. He speaks as to how being one of the last Vulcan’s effects him, how it was that and the death of Spock-Prime which upset him so deeply he even broke up with Uhura because he thought he had to. He’s planning on leaving Starfleet. But Bones is an excellent friend in this scenes, listening to Spock and offering some kind non-judgmental words. He even gets Spock to laugh! It’s a great moment between these two characters who have been around for 50 years and I think one of the best character moments in all of Trek.

20) Did I mention I love Jaylah?

Jaylah [about her punk music]: “I like the beats and shouting!”

21) If I haven’t made it clear before, this film has some very well done humor. I think this is largely a result of Simon Pegg’s work on the script, but it wouldn’t have worked if cowriter Doug Jung hadn’t worked with him on it. Some examples...

Scotty: “I have an idea sir, but I’ll need your permission.”

Kirk: “Why would you need my permission?”

Scotty: “Because if I mess it up I don’t want it to be just my fault.”

22) So 2009′s Star Trek was about Kirk and Spock moving past their conflict to form a respect and kinship with each other. Star Trek Into Darkness had them solidifying their friendship. And now we’ve reached this point:

Spock [while severely injured]: “We will do what we’ve always done, Jim: find hope in the impossible.”

23) I think something the filmmakers really use to their advantage is taking problems and solving them in a creative way through the sci-fi genre (where aliens are a norm and we have artificial gravity and such). A brilliant example of this:

(GIFs originally posted by @trek-daily)

Also this is all practical makeup. Did I mention this film lost the makeup and hairstyling award to Suicide Squad? I’m bitter.

24) The funniest freaking part of the entire movie!

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25) I know I mentioned this before, but Jaylah’s past trauma with her family is incredibly strong for me.

Jaylah [talking about Krall’s hostage camp; refusing to take Kirk and company to their crew]: “Everyone who goes there he kills!”

And it is just another great example of the relationship Scotty and Jaylah have made.

Kirk [after Jaylah leaves & Scotty moves to go after her]: “Let her go.”

Scotty: “She’s lost people too, Captain.”

The fact that Scotty is able to help Jaylah through her grief in a respectful but pressing way speaks a lot to me. And Kirk overhears this, specifically that Jaylah’s dad sacrificed himself for her. Hmm, why does that sound familiar?

The entire scene is great for me for those key reasons: it develops Jaylah, it strengths her relationship with Scotty, and it ties into Kirk’s conflict in the film.

26) The entire diversion/rescue scene on the motorcycle is awesome and one of the strongest set pieces in the entire film. It is brilliantly and intelligently choreographed, keeping the audience and Krall on their toes through the use of decoy projections. It also features a fight between Jaylah and Mannix which ties directly into her arc as he is the man who killed her father. And Kirk - who said to, “Let her go,” about ten minutes earlier - risks himself to save her. She’s a part of his crew now and I love that.

27) Remember how in the 2009 Star Trek Sulu messed up the take off of the Enterprise the first time? Well, I think the phrase, “started from the bottom now we’re here,” applies perfectly to this moment.

(GIF originally posted by @toakenshire)

30) I just love Jaylah’s face when she sees Krall’s planet drift away in the distance. That place was her hell. Her family was murdered there. She never thought she’d be able to escape. And now...

31) Ladies & gentlemen: the most badass moment in Star Trek’s 50 year history.

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Some highlights:

Kirk saying, “That’s a good choice,” tying directly into Young Kirk rocking out to this song in the 2009 film.

Bones: “Is that classical music?”

Chekov toe tapping.

Just how f***ing awesome that moment is. It gets you pumped!

I don’t know who had the initial idea to put this scene in the film, but I love them and I want to give them an award or something. This is glorious.

32) The climactic fist fight between Kirk and Krall is a lot of fun. Similar to Syl’s alien head hiding an important piece of technology, the filmmakers are able to use the concept of artificial gravity in a space station to their advantage by choreographing a unique and fun fight scene.

33) And with this Kirk resolves his conflict of identity in relation to his father.

Kirk: “Better to die saving lives than to live taking them. That’s what I was born into.”

34) I love that Kirk says this but for a weird personal reason. It’s something I learned as a film student and something I wish other directing students (and a lot of professional directors) would learn.

Kirk [after Commodore Paris says he saved the lives of everyone in Yorktown]: “It wasn’t just me. It never is.”

35) Holy shit, I honestly cannot believe I forgot that Spock found this in Spock Prime’s belongings:

Not only is this a wonderful thing to include in the 50th anniversary of Star Trek but also it is something Spock REALLY needed to see. He wanted to live the life Spock Prime did and he thought that meant continuing the work on new Vulcan. But then he sees that Spock Prime was with the Enterprise crew DECADES into a future. He had a family for life. And so does Spock.

36) It’s hard for your eyes not to fall on Anton Yelchin when Kirk makes a toast, “To the Enterprise and to absent friends.”

(GIF originally posted by @soundsofmyuniverse)

37) The fact that the entire main crew of the Enterprise gives the ending monologue for the first time speaks greatly to themes of unity present in the film and Kirk’s giving them credit.

38) And now I’m sad again.

39) “Sledgehammer” by Rihanna.

It’s not often that I talk about an end credits song for a film, but I felt I should make an exception this case. Rihanna is a major Star Trek fan, saying:

"This is something that's been a part of me since my childhood, it's never left me, I love Star Trek. It was automatic. I would do anything in terms of music. It's such a big deal not only as a fan, as a musician... because Star Trek is such a big deal across the globe."

You can feel the love for Trek come across in the song. Not necessarily a radio pop hit, I love this song nonetheless. I find it moving and it’s themes of fighting back after you get knocked down very much tie into the hope and resilience which is Star Trek. I think it is a wonderful composition and a great addition to the Star Trek musical library.

I love Star Trek Beyond. Although the 2009 film introduced me to the franchise, this film has the potential overtime to claim its place as my favorite Trek film. It is an absolutely perfect balance of old and new Trek, featuring standout writing, amazing effects, new ideas, a vibrant visual design, and a standout cast (with special mention to Sofia Boutella as Jaylah). It is a totally wonderful that taps into the hope and sense of adventure that the series has always been about. If you were disappointed with Star Trek Into Darkness or are looking to reclaim some love for the series - or even if you’re watching for the first time - give this film a viewing. You won’t regret it.

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runawayforthesummer · 8 years ago

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Chapter 17: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner

Alexander Hamilton?

Do I get a scone?

It’s the morning and there’s a knock at Eliza’s door.

“Eliza, darling, it’s Aunt Gertrude. Your uncle John and I were asleep last night when you three returned home. I just want to make sure all is well. May I come in? I have coffee.”

Ok. It took Eliza like 5 days to do 400 soldiers. At the General’s, there were, like, 12 guys that needed inoculation. How did it take so long?

And also I do not believe for one second it would be ok for those three girls to be wandering around by themselves late enough at night that their aunt and uncle were asleep by the time they got home. Nope!

American girls were known to have more freedom than their European counterparts. People often remarked it was crazy that a girl could take a walk with only her suitor in America. But, like, I really doubt this would happen! At least, not like this. If they were at a dinner or ball, yeah, probably. But not when they’ve just been out for the day.

Also, wouldn’t Eliza know they weren’t awake when they got home? Why is Gertrude telling her this? This should be in the narration not dialogue.

Gertrude enters and tells Eliza Hamilton has already been by the house.

Eliza felt a blush spread itself on her cheeks.

Remember that one episode of Grey’s Anatomy from season 2 (aka the best season and the only season that honestly matters) with the girl who can’t stop blushing? That’s what this reminds me. All Eliza does is hate people for no reason and blush.

Gertrude also let’s her know that there will be a party at their house.

“Well, it’s not a party, per se, just a dinner gathering. Stephen Van Rensselaer is in town. I wager he couldn’t keep away from Peggy and followed her here, so we’re holding a small dinner for him. And when we heard that such prestigious figures as Colonel Laurens and General Lafayette were here as well, of course we had to invite them along…with Colonel Hamilton.”

No comment on Stephen following Peggy around besides: weird.

Hearing that Colonel Hamilton would be at the party quickened Eliza’s pulse. Try as she might to pretend it wasn’t so, that rascal had gotten under her skin somehow.

It’s been like 100 pages of her realizing this over and over again.

This book has no plot. I hate it!!!!

Like, this is why it probably wasn’t a great idea to write a full length novel on just how they got together.

Perhaps something that followed them through to, like, Philip’s birth or their move to NYC in 1783 would’ve been better.

There’s just not that much drama in how they got together! Whether they met in 1777 or not, the truth is, they met (for the first time or again) in early February of 1780 and were in love and promised to one another within six weeks.

There’s just not that much there! It seemed that they were just instantly gone for one another.

You can get drama over stuff with her parents and getting approval and you can wring a lot out of the insecurities both these people had (Eliza in this book clearly has no insecurities)! And if you throw in the separations, the wedding, him quitting the military, him leaving for Yorktown, and coming back, etc., you’d have enough to make a good, interesting book, I think.

I guess I’m also not all about getting people together. I want to see them together! And for these two people, falling in love was the easy part!

So Melissa de la Cruz trying to make that the plot is really not working for me.

I mean, besides the fact that she did zero research and has no idea who these people are. She also has no idea what was interesting about them and their relationship.

ANYWAY I COULD GO ON about all that is wrong with this book and her choices and what’s actually interesting about Ham and Eliza’s relationship, but I’ll get back to the actual text.

A twinkle appeared in her aunt’s eye. “Colonel Hamilton accepted our invitation ‘most eagerly,’ and said that he was ‘especially excited’ to have the chance to continue his acquaintance with you.”

Ok, de la Cruz gets Hamilton being a desperate fuck correct.

Eliza decides to get dressed up for this party. Because we all know it takes pleasing a man to get a girl interested in fashion!

She even consented to wear a wig. Once it was on, she wondered that she did not wear one more often. It kept drafts off the head, for one thing, and for another, one did not have to sit still for half an hour or an hour while a maid teased and styled and powdered and sprayed every strand of hair in place.

Wow! It’s like people who aren’t you have opinions on things that might be correct! Amazing!

When Eliza comes downstairs, Stephen is telling everyone how big his family’s home is. Like, I doubt he’d have to say it? They all knew he was rich af.

She glanced at Peggy, who was managing to regard her pontificate suitor with an expression that attempted to pass for genuine interest. “Do you think that Peggy will really marry him? I would hate to see her trapped with a bore for the rest of her life because he was rich.”

Lord. Maybe you don’t know everything going on with Stephen? Or Peggy? Or their interest in one another? STFU, Eliza.

The conversation turns to Madi’s husband! Yay!!!! Apparently, he’s on his way!

“I am meeting him tonight! I think he means to propose!”

Considering in 1780 you already had two children, thank god!

Angelica also explains exactly what John is doing in America and between the armies.

She had assumed that her headstrong sister was attracted to John simply because he was everything their parents despised…But now she realized that her sister had fallen in love with a man of principle.

Why does Eliza think so low of everyone around her and when will someone call her on it? She’s the worst!!!

“Oh, Angelica, this is so exciting! Church is on his way! How romantic! If Mama approves, I’m sure she’ll be able to wear Papa down.”

Angelica shrugged, as if the blessing of their parents were of little concern to her.

I love Angelica.

We end with the officers arriving.

#alex & eliza a love story #melissa de la cruz #live blogging

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janeykath318 · 7 years ago

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Leaving Darkness Behind 3

Four days after Chris got word about Jenna, word came that she seemed to be stabilizing at last. He made sure he was on his best behavior so Phil wouldn't bar Spock from coming again, but to his surprise it was Leonard McCoy who showed up in person. "To what do I owe this honor, doctor?" He asked, noting the bags under McCoy's eyes and the general exhaustion he carried. "To being her next of kin," McCoy replied abruptly. "What?" Chris said in disbelief. "I was fifth on the list, last I checked."

"Well, she'd moved you to second to the top, which means she has high regard for ya, Admiral. Commander Kirk will be here as soon as she can, but in the meantime, you’ll get the updates." He snorted. "Didn't think it went that high. It's like she lived to get a rise out of me and add more grey hairs to my extensive collection." McCoy just gave him a look almost of pity for his cluelessness. "S'more than that, Chris. Maybe you'll find out one day." Chris frowned at this cryptic comment, but got down to business. "So, how's she doing?" "As well as can be expected," the doctor informed him. "I'm pretty confident she's past the rocky stage. Now it's just a waiting game and hoping her brain function keeps increasing." "Were you there when she......." he couldn't bring himself to say the word "died". "No. There wasn't time. You can bet I'm not happy I wasn't there." McCoy's face showed the strain and pain of the ordeal very clearly and Chris felt for the man. "What would that level of radiation have done to her?" He wondered out loud. "I don't think you really want to know," McCoy gritted out. "But it would have been hell for her the last few minutes. Absolute hell. Spock was so messed up by it, he went and kicked the stuffing out of Khan." He shook his head grimly. "If Marcus wasn't already dead, I'd love to take him to task for all this. All this pain and suffering, caused by him and his paranoia. Good to see you're doing alright." Chris shrugged. "Alright" was relative. He was recovering physically, but Jenna's condition had messed him up in more ways than he cared to think about. "When can I see her?" He asked. "Soon as Boyce says so," McCoy replied. “He’s her attending now.” When McCoy left, he reached for his PADD and opened up the file of private photos he kept under secure password. Many of them were from the Yorktown days, but there were not a few from escapades involving Jenna. He pulled up the first picture and thought back on the day they'd taken it. It was Jenna's twenty-third birthday and he knew it was the worst day of the year for her, but with the recent scrapes she'd been involved in, the last thing she needed was to go on a drunken bender. He'd showed up at her dorm and was met with a hostile reception. "No offense, sir, but didn't you get the memo I don't like company on my birthday?" Jen stared resentfully at him from the doorway, empty wine glass in hand. "Yes, but given the results of your last two birthday benders, you're going to have company whether you like it or not. You can ignore my presence, that's fine, but I won't let you die of alcohol poisoning." "How noble of you," she said sarcastically. "Fine. Come in, but don't expect me to be social. It's Dad's death day, after all." He winced at her words, but walked in anyway. The room was a bit of a disaster, but Jen managed to clear a path to the couch. She settled in with a sigh and hit play on her holovid, an old crime show from before Starfleet's era. For a while they watched in silence, Jen's face a blank slate as she tried to ignore him. On the third episode, though, she suddenly spoke. "You know, I firmly believe if Mom hadn't been pregnant with me, she'd never have got on that shuttle. I think she would have preferred dying with him, than living without him. I ruined that, of course." He didn't know what to say. How did one respond to something like that? When she looked at him expectantly, he tried to put something into words. "Jen, I know your mom. Much as she misses George, even if Sam wasn’t in the picture, there is no way she would have left you an orphan. I've never heard her talk about you with anything that suggested she resented your existence. Exasperation, maybe; never regret." Jen sighed and shrugged. "That's not what Sam thinks. He's made no secret he loathes my very existence." There was that bitter tone again. George Samuel Kirk, Jr. had his own multitude of issues and unfortunately had taken them out on his sister before she'd cut ties with him. That was a mess he wouldn't go near unless she asked him to intervene. Jen poured herself another drink and took a big gulp. "You know what? When I'm Captain of my own ship, I'm never going to bother with a relationship. If I get put in that position, I refuse to leave someone with a broken heart. Who has time for that crap, anyway? Worked for you, didn't it?" "Yeah, you could say that," Chris answered vaguely. He was the poster boy for not having time for love. Didn't mean he didn't have quite a few regrets, though. Jen's PADD suddenly dinged and she glanced over at it. "Its mom," she sighed. "Wants to know if I'm safe. She knows me too well. I'd better send some proof." She suddenly scooted over close to him, tilted her head in and held up the PADD in its camera feature. Before he could react, a little blip sounded and the deed was done. "There," Jen said, grinning wickedly, "now she knows I'm in no danger, with you here." Looking back, Chris felt a pang of longing to see those bright blue eyes lively again. He shouldn't have let himself get so attached, but somehow, she'd wormed her way through the protective barrier he kept around his heart. Jenna didn't know it, but that was the heart that had cracked at the news of her temporary death. He might not show it in rage, like Spock, or breaking the laws of nature, like McCoy, but it hurt nonetheless.

#pirk #my fics #pike x kirk #Star Trek Into Darkness AU #Pike Lives!!

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