This has been a long five day weekend for me and it’s been an interesting couple of days.
– Have been reading Quotable Star Trek by Jill Sherwin all week. If you are a fan of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, this is a great book to have. Be warned that it does not have any of the quotes from the last years of Deep Space 9, the last year of Voyager, the last two Berman movies or the 2009 Star Trek movie. Nevertheless, this is among my favorite books. And for the record, the doctors in Star Trek are not moon-shuttle conductors, bricklayers, escalators, engineers, coal miners, magicians, doorstops, botanist…well you get the idea.
-Speaking of Star Trek, I discovered a site which has most of the final scripts (not necessarily shooting scripts) for many of the Star Trek episodes and one that has the shooting scripts for Lois and Clark: The New Adventure of Superman (click on the word “text,” not on the episode title).
– Saw and reviewed The Last Airbender, which my most significant other wants to see again. I don’t, but I suspect I will. *deep sigh* We also saw “The A-Team,” which we both really enjoyed. There will be no review, but if you haven’t seen it yet and plan to, do stay through the end of the credits for a real nice Easter egg salute to the original cast.
– Speaking of The Last Airbender, Twitter tweets from film critic, Roger Ebert, took a surprisingly strange turn with this movie (at least to me). Over the weekend, he critically slammed the film, seemed somewhat perturbed that it made back half its production cost this weekend and seemly rejoiced that its 3D sales were less than the industry average. Mr. Ebert is a professional, I’m sure, but he just came across to me as being more than concerned that his review didn’t initially turn into big box office poison for this movie. But as I said, he is a professional, I’m not.
– Speaking of being a nonprofessional, I released a JLU fan fiction story this week (not linking). It had been two years since I last wrote something and this piece was written to fill out my library. I think I am pretty much done with JLU (I know, never say never), because I’ve discovered another show that I plan to write about this summer. The show? Have Gun Will Travel. This western ran from 1957-1963 and is classic in every sense of the word. It is currently in reruns of the Encore Western Channel and doesn’t have the large audience that Gunsmoke or Bonanza have, but this show appeals to me. The main character, Paladin, is a professional gunman and is, to quote Shrek, layered like a onion. I’m adding a webpage this summer.