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»Thank you to everyone who told me their Tumblr name or who friended me on Tumblr. It feels awesome, except a whole bunch of people friended me and I don't know who they are. WHO ARE YOU? WHO WHO?
»Still appalled by Outlander. However, am interested in the tv show, because Ron D Moore.
»I keep waiting to hear something awful about Moore, or see something awful he's done. I mean the big names that you know--Moffat, JJ Abrams--I just kind of picture them sitting in a room saying, "Okay, but how can we start with something cool and then fuck it up even more?" Even Joss Whedon, whom I really respect a lot, has made some serious mistakes that just make me wince super hard and say, "Ooh, buddy, I know you mean well, but really can you watch where you step?" I haven't seen Moore doing this, but . . . he has to, right? I mean I don't like anyone anymore; that's just how I am now--broken inside.
»Played Apples to Apples as Data. Was very eager to define for Lwaxana Troi and B'elanna and sometimes Jim Kirk all the 20th and 21th references. Had some trouble since the only teenager he knows is Wesley Crusher (he chose "High School Bathrooms" for the category "Neat").
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Hypothetically, if Moore had been given the new Trek movies as his sole property, and had done a nuBSG darker take on Trek, I'd have been furious at him about that too.
This is really thought-provoking. Because I do feel like DS9 really started to twist what Star Trek was all about. In some ways, I loved it, because I felt like it really took apart the underpinning's of Roddenberry's improbable vision and talked about what it really meant. But when we got into the stuff about Section 31 I just wanted to throw things and shout, "THIS IS NOT WHAT STAR TREK IS ABOUT. STAR TREK IS ABOUT THE IDEA THAT A SOCIETY CAN EXIST WITHOUT SECTION 31'S AND THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT. STUPID." So yeah, idk, Moore really getting to be in charge of reimagining Star Trek the way that Abrams was might have pissed me off.
OTOH the questions with which Moore seems to concern himself are questions that are so important to me I might have been able to get over it, whereas with Abrams I don't think that's ever going to happen. So I wonder whether I could still state my stance as "messing with the spirit of the original may be uncool but I won't really care if you do it to address things that are deeply important to me."
But I totally understand not feeling that way and I think you bring up great points.
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I am deeply suspicious of Abrams getting Star Wars, because on the one hand he admitted he likes the franchise better, and on the other hand, then I would be 3 of 3 with childhood franchises chewed on by newcomers.
And this has been a great discussion to have :)