Fannish thoughts
May. 19th, 2023 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartNo, really, my mind isn't continually occupied with domestic stuff and the likes. I'm trying to get back to regular writing because frankly, I miss writing as if it were a lost limb. Since I've made some moderate progress with "A Stitch in Time" lately, I also started re-watching the ST: Enterprise episodes that might be significant for this crossover AU. It makes up for no longer having telly in my bedroom. Well, I do have the telly, as the machine, but no longer any programmes on it.
In any case, I came to watch "Shuttlepod One" the other day. According to the Memory Alpha wiki, this is one of the most favourite episodes of both Bermaga (Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) and the Enterprise cast. Frankly, it says a lot about their taste... and no good things, either.
It is the episode where two main characters (Tucker and Reed) are in a stranded shuttlepod, with a limited amount of air left and with very little hope to get rescued in time. So far, so good, it could have been an interesting episode. Well... it wasn't, not for me. The two guys behaved like absolute pricks... or rather like two teenagers trying to outdo each other. Okay, I get it that some men are like that, but these guy are supposed to be the best of the best, hand-picked to represent mankind out there, among all those aliens. Small wonder mankind apparently had such a bad press, at least on Vulcan!
I used to like Tucker quite a bit. I was indifferent towards Reed. Now I find that I'm very disappointed with Tucker (I only saw the episode once before, and that was years ago) and I find Reed vaguely disgusting. The so-called plot consisted of 80% immature bickering, Americans versus Brits, 10% of immature sexual fantasies (Reed about T'Pol's posterior) and 10% of actual sci-fi (whenever we saw Archer & Co on Enterprise instead of the two idiots.
Not to mention the glaring mistakes, like Tucker announcing that one's hair and nails keep growing after one's death, which is a proven untruth. Also, for two guys who were suffering from serious hypothermia, they were surely wearing a lot of lipstick. Gah, I really hated the episode! It bordered on the idiocy of that other one where Reed and Mayweather made a "snow Vulcan" on that comet where they nearly died. For a distinguished Englishman with the proverbial stiff upper lip, and one who was raised in a Naval family, Reed certainly comes over as the class clown in some episodes.
On the domestic front, I made a food run today, cooked honey chicken with a very bastardised version of Cantonese rice, practiced a bit of my knitting (and botched up the pattern completely - all that counting retired makes my head spin!) and tried to select some more craft paper for the upcoming baby book. I'm still not satisfied with my stock, but it's better than nothing. Oh, and I've managed to iron out that ugly crease from the textile book's outer cover... almost completely.
In any case, I came to watch "Shuttlepod One" the other day. According to the Memory Alpha wiki, this is one of the most favourite episodes of both Bermaga (Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) and the Enterprise cast. Frankly, it says a lot about their taste... and no good things, either.
It is the episode where two main characters (Tucker and Reed) are in a stranded shuttlepod, with a limited amount of air left and with very little hope to get rescued in time. So far, so good, it could have been an interesting episode. Well... it wasn't, not for me. The two guys behaved like absolute pricks... or rather like two teenagers trying to outdo each other. Okay, I get it that some men are like that, but these guy are supposed to be the best of the best, hand-picked to represent mankind out there, among all those aliens. Small wonder mankind apparently had such a bad press, at least on Vulcan!
I used to like Tucker quite a bit. I was indifferent towards Reed. Now I find that I'm very disappointed with Tucker (I only saw the episode once before, and that was years ago) and I find Reed vaguely disgusting. The so-called plot consisted of 80% immature bickering, Americans versus Brits, 10% of immature sexual fantasies (Reed about T'Pol's posterior) and 10% of actual sci-fi (whenever we saw Archer & Co on Enterprise instead of the two idiots.
Not to mention the glaring mistakes, like Tucker announcing that one's hair and nails keep growing after one's death, which is a proven untruth. Also, for two guys who were suffering from serious hypothermia, they were surely wearing a lot of lipstick. Gah, I really hated the episode! It bordered on the idiocy of that other one where Reed and Mayweather made a "snow Vulcan" on that comet where they nearly died. For a distinguished Englishman with the proverbial stiff upper lip, and one who was raised in a Naval family, Reed certainly comes over as the class clown in some episodes.
On the domestic front, I made a food run today, cooked honey chicken with a very bastardised version of Cantonese rice, practiced a bit of my knitting (and botched up the pattern completely - all that counting retired makes my head spin!) and tried to select some more craft paper for the upcoming baby book. I'm still not satisfied with my stock, but it's better than nothing. Oh, and I've managed to iron out that ugly crease from the textile book's outer cover... almost completely.
