There's more of a rant in the title than the message, but I saw the new Star Trek movie today and it was not really Star Trek.

Rant rant rant.

Egon.

Edited to add extra snark and green woman reference.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2009 06:48PM by EgonSpengler.

Any tribbles? And did they catch the snark?

No, no tribbles and they didn't catch the snark either, except for the one I'm carrying mentally.

Snark snark snark. Stupid big pipes going everywhere...

Having ssen only one episode of Start rek since the original went boldly forward, was it as bad, relatively speaking, as the Hitchhiker's ' movie was to the oriuginal BBC TV series?

Maybe not as good because I like the sequence in Hitchhiker where they're plasticine or string figures. Virtually everyone else is saying ST is good though. I shall fight on in the minority with an icecream in one hand and a box of Flakes in the other!

Hmmm, a Flake would be good right now...

E.

Ah, I have fond memories of being a minority... Oh, wait, I'm still a minority!
However, I have not ever seen any Star Trek before. I did love Lost in Space as a small child though, you have to love the robot and his visible sneakers. And of course the chemical used for dry cleaning that they supposedly used to "preserve" their vegetables....

The Hitchiker's film had some very good bits but also some very bad bits. Deep Thought looking bored was funny, the guide graphics worked very well with Stephen Fry's voice which was a lot better on film than on radio (Hitchiker V) even though we don't see him in either case. On the bad side Martin Freeman while cuter and more endearing couldn't do sarcasm or bewildered strongly enough and the characters never seemed to be in any real danger.

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Forgive me, but just out of curiosity, what does this have to do with Fforde?

Good golly, Jeepers! What do MOST of these threads have to do with Fforde?!

The Hitchhiker movie seemed quite muted in tone, or maybe tried to be smartly funny too much, or maybe Zaphod was just too wrong, or maybe there wasn't enough pi.

Egon.

I thought the tea thing wasn't done well enough, lacked zest.

Puts slice of lemon in everybody's tea in hope that ranting will cease and happiness will be resumed.

Takes a little nap to recover from inexplicable bout of optimism.

(Brain the size of a planet and they've got me making tea.)

Loved seeing the old Marvin. But your right new Arthur was a bit flat for the role, but Trillian was a distinct improvement.

Do many threads around here have much more than a passing reference to things "fF"?

I suppose that the other forums are more specifically Fforde-related. We are more Fforde-inspired here in Nextian.

And why were neither the tv or film Marvins androids? The radio one was perfect.
{p.s. I quite liked the film despite its faults and re-writes)

Other forums?
There are other forums?
what are the pies like there?

I don't think they consider food to be a priority...

This is the only civilized forum. We have pies and unspecified chocolates in the basement vault.

Food not a priority? I am amazed and don't quite know what to say. I'll pop down to the basement and get some Unspecified Chocolates for us all instead, oh, and I've put some fresh pies on the cooling rack too.

I hope they're not pork pies.
I rang the Swine Flu hotline but all I could hear was crackling.

I heard that one on the Now Show Podcast, I believe it was? Someone was listening to it at least.

Lately there has been a shortage of blackbird trick pies. I wonder why they went out of fashion?

Trick pies went out when we gave up on saying four and twenty.

Talking of four and twenty - they still make trick pies, people think that there's meat in them!

Unspecified chocolates are quantum aren't they, once you see them there quantitative and qualitative characteristic are crystalised. Umm dark chocolate ginger ....

<wanders off to find chocky cellar>