…because it’s not cloudy for once.  Woo!

Still feeling rather blah today.  My head finally stopped hurting, thank God, but I’ve been so tired all day that I nearly dropped off at work this morning.  I’ve spent the day gettin’ jacked up on caffeine, so I hope I can sleep tonight.  I can’t wait to watch Bones later, so I don’t know which will keep me awake longer, the caffeine or the lovely t.v. that I’ve been anxiously awaiting ever since I saw the preview last week.  I don’t remember the last time I got this excited over a t.v. show.  Oh, wait, yes I do.  It was back when Voyager was still on.  That’s right.  🙂

Speaking of Star Trek, I was rather disappointed with the new movie.  I loved Chris Pine; I thought he was an excellent Captain Kirk.  And when I finally figured out that it was Jennifer Morrison who played his mom (and not just some unknown Kirsten Dunst lookalike-wannabe), then I was tickled pink.  I kind of found myself wishing she’d been in it more because I really like her.  However, I was more than a little disturbed when they blew up Vulcan and after that, I just couldn’t get into it.  I kept waiting for a Year of Hell-type fix at the end where the timeline was restored and everything goes back to normal – I could have lived with that, even though it would be a cheap fix to a bad plotline – but it never came, and that was incredibly irksome.  Yes, irksome.  Because I can’t think of an adequate swear word.  Also because I apparently write in sentence fragments now.  And the whole thing where they completely rewrote how Captain Pike ended up in the wheelchair and lost command of the Enterprise?  No.  Just no.  I’ll take The Cage any day, thank you.

And honestly, the Romulans?  I was disappointed.  They looked nothing like the Romulans I’ve seen.  Okay, so I haven’t seen all of the original series or even most of The Next Generation (that I remember), but even in Deep Space Nine and Voyager, the Romulans looked a lot more Vulcan than they did in this movie.  These new future-y Romulans looked like normal guys with tattoos on their faces.  I found it very distracting.

All that said, though, the movie had its moments.  Karl Urban was great as Dr. McCoy.  One of my favorite parts was where he kept giving Jim shots and Jim finally had enough and started yelling at him to stop it.  That was great.  I also enjoyed the part with the Spock, Leonard Nimoy, although I must admit that I had flashbacks of Futurama and the episode they did where Melllvar held them hostage on a forbidden planet and held a Star Trek convention.  That was a funny episode.

Okay, so actual work interrupted the posting of this post.  Perhaps that’s a little redundant, but I just finished watching that episode of Bones that I had so been looking forward to.  And now I’m pissed.  I avoided spoilers like the plague for the last six months because after I looked at the story that was in TV Guide – and I shouldn’t have – I wanted to save myself for the episode so that I could fully enjoy it.  Boy, did I not enjoy it.  I mean, I liked – okay, loved – the whole Booth and Brennan together thing.  I loved Caroline being in it because she’s awesome.  The woman can deliver a line like nobody’s business.  And Sweets was pretty good with his little band; the tie-in to Gormogon was kinda funny.  It was obvious that the whole thing was some sort of dream sequence, but when he said, “Who are you?”  Oh, man, if looks could kill, my t.v. would no longer be working.  I think I even startled Greg a bit because he paused the show just before the dreaded words and he said he thought I was going to give birth for a minute.  I didn’t say a thing, but the look on my face was all, “Don’t do that!!!”  And then Booth spoke and I decided I had some writers to kill.  Well, first I need to find out whose idea it was to blow up Vulcan and hurt them and then I need to find out whose idea it was to give Booth amnesia and hurt them.  You can’t fuck with Booth and Brennan, people, it’s sacrilege!  This is even worse than blowing up Vulcan!

*hiss*

I have a feeling I’ll be ranting about this for a good long time.  Like, all summer until the new season starts.  And by God, they’d better fix it.  Or else.  Grrrr…

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