Three months until Christmas! HA
This weekend I added a new elf to my collection of Christmas elves. Yes, there was a store that had already opened that had Christmas stuff and where I have gotten elves before. Likely he’s the only one I will get this year since I have all the others and my collection is over twenty of them now.
Here is the latest.
So…
I watched both episodes of Star Trek Discovery. I thought the story line was intriguing and it kept my attention for both episodes and I will continue to watch.
I thought the acting needed help. Most of it was pretty cheesy frankly. I hope it improves as the series continues. I found that with the show, Grimm. When I saw the first couple of episodes I was like…hmm. Acting is bad. But by the time the series finished 6 years later, I thought they were all great.
I am not sure how I feel about Michael being someone Sarek raised. Since this is supposed to take place some ten years before the events of Kirk and Spock, I imagine Amanda would be involved in there somewhere as well. I understand both arguments to adding her in that capacity but I am not sure I agree with changing something “sacred” in Star Trek. On the other hand, it wasn’t until the movies that we even knew Sybok existed, so I guess Spock is pretty closed mouth.
I thought the look of the Klingons, as I said on Tumblr, was very bizarre. As Kris and M pointed out to me they looked a little like the Klingons from Into Darkness, but to me they didn’t even look like that very much. At least with those AOS Klingons, I could still tell they were Klingons. These ones looked like a different race to me. Very odd. And not at all effective in my opinion.
Since a “ready room” was a Next Generation invention, I found it interesting that a ship that was ten years earlier than the Enterprise with Kirk and Spock had a “ready room”.
We shall see. The first season is 15 episodes as I understand it. So much could change in the amount that remains. I am definitely keeping an open mind and I absolutely did not hate it. I did find myself entertained, I just want to point out what, for me, were issues.
And no I don’t find myself inspired to post any fan fiction on the show! LOL
Speaking of, I will shortly be posting the next chapter of Anything. I also have a chapter of Didn’t We Almost Have it All done so I will get that posted this week also. My intention this week is to focus on Where My Demons Hide with a possible new chapter of Primal Lust making its way to be updated as well.
I was invited to go away this coming weekend from Sunday-Tuesday. So far I have said no but I could change my mind. I do have Monday October 02 off because I just wanted a mental health day. I would only need to take Tuesday off as well. It wouldn’t be with M but other family.
September 25, 2017 at 8:24 am
CHRISTMAS! Lol.
I agree with the assessment of Discovery. The Klingons were awful. Ugh. But hoping the rest improves as you said.
Can’t wait for more stories 🙂
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September 25, 2017 at 8:41 am
They really were, and to me, among the worst acting too!
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September 25, 2017 at 8:38 am
Elves?
I will be watching Discovery today. I was way too tired last night to watch it. So I will leave my comments on it and Michael and Sarek for later 🙂 I am very much looking forward to this series though.
My friend Stephen, when we went and saw Wrath of Khan, saw for the first time the trailer for Discovery and had a freak out about the Klingons and how they look. He loves Next Gen and TOS and to him, those Klingons in Discovery are not Klingons.
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September 25, 2017 at 8:42 am
Yeah they didn’t look like any Klingons I have ever seen through TOS, the Movies, Next Gen, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise and AOS. You will have to tell me what you think of the show after you’ve seen it.
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September 25, 2017 at 8:46 am
I will, but first, please tell me about the elves? I must know
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September 27, 2017 at 5:30 pm
I agree. They just took too much artistic license. They’re not Klingons at all. And I don’t understand why they felt in any way comfortable changing them like that.
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September 25, 2017 at 8:53 am
I added a picture of him. He’s a Christmas elf, not a Legolas elf lol
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September 25, 2017 at 9:31 am
Super cute. I wasn’t thinking legolas lol
My mind went to little figurines not what you posted.
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September 25, 2017 at 9:34 am
Oh hell no. I hate figurines like elves on the shelf. Ack no. All of mine look like that guy I posted or very similar
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September 25, 2017 at 9:12 am
Christmas- noooooooooooooooooooooo!
I also don’t like the Klingons. It was strange enough when Next Gen made Worf so different from the TOS Klingons! This, however, takes it to a whole new level! More like a completely different species.
Also, although it makes more sense that the Klingons were speaking their native tongue, I found it distracting. I had to read and then glance back at the action. So I ended up having to pause and “rewind” to watch some moments over again. I was watching it on a tablet. Maybe if it was in a big screen it would be easier?
Yeah!!!!!! for the promise of updates! Looking forward to seeing them.
Enjoy your week and your next weekend. ❤
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September 25, 2017 at 9:36 am
Well the Klingons were actually changed in appearance well before Worf. They started changing them in the TOS movies to look more similar to what Worf and all the rest after him look like. There is some explanation somewhere for why they don’t look like they do in TOS series but I forget what it is and I am too lazy to google. But the ones in Discovery looked like the snake aliens not Klingons. It was BIZARRE
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September 27, 2017 at 5:35 pm
Sometime watch how the Klingon change in appearance is explained in the Enterprise series. They explain it.
NOTHING can explain this in Discovery though.
Whatever the new klingons are, they look like they rolled around in the tar monster that ate/killed Yar (for which I am STILL grateful – hated her. Love Denise. Hated Yar)
Love the elf.
But there’s nothing I love more than the pic of the Shat. I have an emoji that looks like that and I can’t get it to paste in. Can you if I send it to you?
Christmas. That means last week of October we start on Christmas music, so that by the time it gets Thanksgiving, we’re sick of it. haha Or is that just me.
But I love Christmas.
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September 27, 2017 at 5:42 pm
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September 27, 2017 at 5:43 pm
This emoji? HA HA
I usually start TG week to listen the music and watch the movies
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September 27, 2017 at 5:47 pm
They’re practically twins! haha Thanks.
Yeah, I think Hallmark now starts their movies the week before Thanksgiving. I missed all the ones when they did the Christmas in July week. 😦
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October 1, 2017 at 7:02 am
I haven’t even wanted to watch the show since I heard about Sarek having yet another kid – I just can’t. Maybe that’s close minded of me but it just seems ridiculous. There was a satiric Tumblr post/comment about sarek just collecting children and seriously tho….
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October 2, 2017 at 9:09 am
Well to be fair he’s just fostered her after her parents died, but I get it. I think they definitely could have used a different Vulcan, but I think, as a friend said, they wanted an instantly recognizable Star Trek name for Star Trek viewers to ground them as oh yes, this is a ST story. Misguided? Probably. But so far I do like the show if you can get past the flaws of the Klingons and Michael being connected to Sarek. i watched the first two episodes again and came away with a better view of the acting than I did the first time. Anyhow, I certainly won’t be writing any fan fictions about it or including her as a character in any of mine, but I do like the show. But understand your decision not to watch it. It’s all good 🙂
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October 1, 2017 at 7:10 am
Also: can I tell you what I collect? (But not in a searching, obsessed way, it’s more like when I stumble on them) PLASTIC NATIVITY SCENES. Not like huge set ups, but like ornament sized ones. I don’t know if you remember any or know what I’m talking about, but they used to make these baseball sized (not round but size wise) plastic scenes of little mangers and people, and lots of times the people weren’t even 3-D but rather flat and glued upright in the scene. If you know them, you know them, but I think I’m awkwardly describing them. I normally see them when I’m checking out a garage sale some Grandma is having… which makes sense because I got my first one from my Grandmas stuff!
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October 2, 2017 at 9:11 am
Hmm…I don’t think I do but that’s very cool. I am obsessed with my elves lol, but I freely admit it. If you ever come across a picture of what you are talking about I’d love to see it
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