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May. 7th, 2022 07:41 amBack to work on Monday - but there's a whole weekend to get through, first! And my birthday tomorrow. A lot lower key than last year's and a lot less stressful all round :D
Husband and I got another walk in the other day all the way in to town so he could spend his LFC shop vouchers. He bought a pair of pants and a new scarf - and the pants were on sale! Stick a Liverpool crest on something and add a zero to the price... The scarf will be waved with enthusiasm at the inevitable home coming. Even if the men's team don't bag any more silverware, the women's team have gained promotion and the under 23's have won... something... so we can have a whole procession. :D
Otherwise, it's been pretty uneventful. I've watched quite a bit of ST:OS and a few things have struck me for the first time. Firstly, they do a terrible job of hiding the fact that the stunt men are stunt men and not the actual actors. I mean, they do tend to be similar height and build but sometimes you get a really clear look at their faces and it breaks the immersion. Don't know why I've never noticed before, but my ability to suspend disbelief is pretty strong.
The other thing is how many stories revolve around idealised societies that aren't so ideal when you get below the surface. Given that the Enterprise's 'five year mission' is to 'seek out new life and new civilisations' these are exactly the right kinds of stories. Maybe it's watching them so close together. It is probably the fourth or fifth time I've watched some of the episodes. Clearly, I was a very unobservant watcher when I was younger :D
I've also been struck by how 'Earth culture' is very 1960's American. There was a conversation about a female crew member getting married and the assumption was that she would leave the service! And a reference to one God being enough. One of the things that irritates me about sci-fi in general - and ST in particular because I've watched more of that than other IPs - is how homogenous planet populations are. There are Vulcans and Klingons but not Vulcans from this part of Vulcan and that part of Vulcan. There are Klingon factions - but they all live by the same general code. But to treat Earth as a single culture verges on the criminal. Anyway, when(!) I finally write my sci-fi epic, there will be lots of ethnicities and factions on all the planets :D
Finally, the role of female characters. Of course, the female 'uniforms' in the OS look ridiculous to us now - but the mini-skirt was a symbol of female empowerment at the time. Uhura was rewiring the comms system in one episode and she was left to get on with it. It was her area of expertise, she knew what she was doing, she was just asked to do it faster. In that situation, it was exactly the equivalent of Scotty and his beloved engines :D On the other hand, Kirk's yeomen are always women. And there was a banquet given for Kahn where the servers were all women. They did a good job of treating the women like people - but sometimes they couldn't break out of being 1960's Americans. Which, I suppose, is fair enough. We don't see the systems we operate in, the way fish don't see water :D
Right, time to get on. See you next week, DW :D
Husband and I got another walk in the other day all the way in to town so he could spend his LFC shop vouchers. He bought a pair of pants and a new scarf - and the pants were on sale! Stick a Liverpool crest on something and add a zero to the price... The scarf will be waved with enthusiasm at the inevitable home coming. Even if the men's team don't bag any more silverware, the women's team have gained promotion and the under 23's have won... something... so we can have a whole procession. :D
Otherwise, it's been pretty uneventful. I've watched quite a bit of ST:OS and a few things have struck me for the first time. Firstly, they do a terrible job of hiding the fact that the stunt men are stunt men and not the actual actors. I mean, they do tend to be similar height and build but sometimes you get a really clear look at their faces and it breaks the immersion. Don't know why I've never noticed before, but my ability to suspend disbelief is pretty strong.
The other thing is how many stories revolve around idealised societies that aren't so ideal when you get below the surface. Given that the Enterprise's 'five year mission' is to 'seek out new life and new civilisations' these are exactly the right kinds of stories. Maybe it's watching them so close together. It is probably the fourth or fifth time I've watched some of the episodes. Clearly, I was a very unobservant watcher when I was younger :D
I've also been struck by how 'Earth culture' is very 1960's American. There was a conversation about a female crew member getting married and the assumption was that she would leave the service! And a reference to one God being enough. One of the things that irritates me about sci-fi in general - and ST in particular because I've watched more of that than other IPs - is how homogenous planet populations are. There are Vulcans and Klingons but not Vulcans from this part of Vulcan and that part of Vulcan. There are Klingon factions - but they all live by the same general code. But to treat Earth as a single culture verges on the criminal. Anyway, when(!) I finally write my sci-fi epic, there will be lots of ethnicities and factions on all the planets :D
Finally, the role of female characters. Of course, the female 'uniforms' in the OS look ridiculous to us now - but the mini-skirt was a symbol of female empowerment at the time. Uhura was rewiring the comms system in one episode and she was left to get on with it. It was her area of expertise, she knew what she was doing, she was just asked to do it faster. In that situation, it was exactly the equivalent of Scotty and his beloved engines :D On the other hand, Kirk's yeomen are always women. And there was a banquet given for Kahn where the servers were all women. They did a good job of treating the women like people - but sometimes they couldn't break out of being 1960's Americans. Which, I suppose, is fair enough. We don't see the systems we operate in, the way fish don't see water :D
Right, time to get on. See you next week, DW :D
