mikailborg | Weekend thoughts

Ocean's Twelve had some really funny parts, but it wasn't really a good caper movie. It's so busy being cute and inscrutable that the we give up on the plot too long before the Big Twists are revealed. Still worth a ticket for the good bits, but don't expect the coolness of the first one.

Continued musings on the plight of the superhero: if you have a Code Against Killing, but the serial-murdering super-villain you've just captured laughs at you and tells you he'll be back on the street killing people in 6 months - and you know he's right - what do you do? Break your code and make sure the villain can't hurt anyone else ever? Or follow your code, knowing that the likelihood is that people will die for your choice?

Morning linkage: This is a keen Smithsonian webpage that allows you to sit in the cockpit of several aircraft, from a Spad to a Mercury capsule, using QuickTimeVR.

Saw the last of the Vulcan arc of Enterprise this weekend - it did not disappoint. As usual, a few quibbles - I'd have like to have gotten farther in the head of the main bad guy, and another character did something stupid for an excruciatingly long time before stopping and admitting he should have known better - but plenty of good stuff. Trip is growing up fast, and it's great to watch; and the sehlat exchange was classic Vulcan dry humor. "You keep a pet - Porthos." "Porthos doesn't try to eat me if I'm late with dinner." "Vulcan children are never late with dinner." I'm back to being a regular watcher, I think.

I've had a cold or a bug or something for days. Sore throat and stomach issues all week, then weakness Friday and Saturday, and Boom! - Sunday was Drainage and Constant Sneezing Day. This morning, it's nearly all gone away - I am thankful.

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I think I may have mentioned in my own LJ that there were a bunch of the standard Star Trek idiocies, too, though. I'm back to being a regular viewer, but with reservations.

I don't like the Vulcans acting thoroughly emotional. I really think the woman who plays T'Pol is the best Vulcan ever. She mostly does a really good job of emotional without the histrionics that the others use to emote. I don't like the "human beating up a billion armed Vulcans with his bare hands." There are a couple of other elements, but those two are the ones that spring to mind right away. Oh, and I really hate how they are WASTING Hoshi.

Completely agreed that Hoshi is turning into a bridge decoration. Maywether isn't doing much better. And yeah, the curved side of that Vullcan weapon has an edge - I saw Archer take a hit that should have lopped his arm off. I am more impressed with T'Pol lately, too.

And entirely unclear why a Vulcan secret service hit squad would go in with no weapons other than long sticks. My first guess was that they knew about the 'metal-zotting' electrical whatchamacallits, and left behind their phasers in favor of staffs with non-metalic blades. Then one of those blades was zotted.

Was Hoshi even *in* this plot? Perhaps this is being more like "Classic" Trek, where they would forget about Uhura for several eps.

Hoshi got to turn on a translator and open some hailing frequencies. They don't let her work on translation anymore, even. Argh!

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