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gribouilleTonight my father brought me back to the apartment using his scooter. It's the second time I let him drive me like that in two days, and I'm beginning to enjoy it - and I'm definitely getting less scared. I still prefer cars though - motorbikes and scooters are fun, but I wouldn't use them everyday.
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I don't know why but watching V (which by the way is rather good for now) and Doctor Who (I'm still stuck at episode 8, but normally we're seeing the next one tonight) made me want to watch an old SF show again : Star Trek, the original series. I was a huge fan of it when I was younger - I watched the movies first though - but now I've forgotten most of it.
I love noticing the difference between "old" series like Star Trek or The Avengers and how TV shows are made nowadays. I'm not speaking about special effects (though I keep laughing at them, especially since it annoys my father - but in fact I absolutely love those odd special effects). I'm focusing more on characterisation and storytelling.
When you start watching Star Trek, you don't know anything about the main characters - and you don't expect to know anything, really. There is no special episode focusing on the past of such or such character. Informations are given bits by bits, and that's how you expect it - in one episode you'll see that Sulu is fond of plants, in the next that he's good at fencing. The characters seem to appear just like that, with no real backstory to it - or in what I've seen anyway ; the first episode I've seen had no McCoy in it, and he was there in the next one as if he'd always been there. In fact, when a new character appears and gets some interest from the main crew, it's usually bad news for said character.
I find it funny that now every TV show or almost will begin with the meeting of all the characters, and every character will have a "troubled" past that will be hinted at then revealed in a special episode revolving around that character. It's funny how the expectations have changed...
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Now on a very different matter : re-watching the original series with the 2009 movie in mind made me realise that that movie was even closer to the original series than what I originally thought. Especially on one point (beware : SPOILER right below).
When I saw the movie I was a bit chocked by the relationship between Uhura and Spock, even though I didn't mind that pairing, I was a bit like "what went through the screenwriter's head when he wrote that ?"
Well, re-watching the original series made me realise that there was in fact already a special complicity between Uhura and Spock, and among the 4 episodes I've seen (3 with Uhura in them), 2 of them featured a scene in which Uhura tried to seduce Spock. My father was just as stunned as I was - he had completely forgotten that aspect as well.
And now I can't wait to see if there will be more scenes like those !
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And now, on to more V... hope you're all having a nice week-end !
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I don't know why but watching V (which by the way is rather good for now) and Doctor Who (I'm still stuck at episode 8, but normally we're seeing the next one tonight) made me want to watch an old SF show again : Star Trek, the original series. I was a huge fan of it when I was younger - I watched the movies first though - but now I've forgotten most of it.
I love noticing the difference between "old" series like Star Trek or The Avengers and how TV shows are made nowadays. I'm not speaking about special effects (though I keep laughing at them, especially since it annoys my father - but in fact I absolutely love those odd special effects). I'm focusing more on characterisation and storytelling.
When you start watching Star Trek, you don't know anything about the main characters - and you don't expect to know anything, really. There is no special episode focusing on the past of such or such character. Informations are given bits by bits, and that's how you expect it - in one episode you'll see that Sulu is fond of plants, in the next that he's good at fencing. The characters seem to appear just like that, with no real backstory to it - or in what I've seen anyway ; the first episode I've seen had no McCoy in it, and he was there in the next one as if he'd always been there. In fact, when a new character appears and gets some interest from the main crew, it's usually bad news for said character.
I find it funny that now every TV show or almost will begin with the meeting of all the characters, and every character will have a "troubled" past that will be hinted at then revealed in a special episode revolving around that character. It's funny how the expectations have changed...
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Now on a very different matter : re-watching the original series with the 2009 movie in mind made me realise that that movie was even closer to the original series than what I originally thought. Especially on one point (beware : SPOILER right below).
When I saw the movie I was a bit chocked by the relationship between Uhura and Spock, even though I didn't mind that pairing, I was a bit like "what went through the screenwriter's head when he wrote that ?"
Well, re-watching the original series made me realise that there was in fact already a special complicity between Uhura and Spock, and among the 4 episodes I've seen (3 with Uhura in them), 2 of them featured a scene in which Uhura tried to seduce Spock. My father was just as stunned as I was - he had completely forgotten that aspect as well.
And now I can't wait to see if there will be more scenes like those !
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And now, on to more V... hope you're all having a nice week-end !
