Here is a thing for liveblogging my full rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Since it started on Twitter, here are the comments I made before I switched to this blog midway through the pilot. No, I will not re-order them to make them un-reversed, because who cares.
IN REVERSE ORDER, FROM TWITTER:
"Nice to meet you... Pinocchio." #fuckyeah #riker #tng
girrrrl you only god one dot on yr collar, you better quit flirting with Riker and tell him where Data is #waytocheckouthisass #riker #tng
HAHA I forgot that the bridge has a fucking SKYLIGHT #absurd #tng
Oh my god there is so much #slash material on this show it's not even goddamn funny. #tng #manlove
RIKER FUCK YEAH FUCK YEEEAAAAAAH #tng #riker
God, Tasha Yar, you are such a badass (and she got back, for a white girl). #tng
Haha they thought saucer separation was way cooler than it actually is, not unlike the first movie's 45-min. shot of the Enterprise. #tng
What the fuck! They sever the saucer in the pilot? Man it has been too long since I watched this. #tng
Whoa, is that a Vulcan in the background in Engineering? Pilot episodes are weird. #tng
Hey, the rarely seen Yellow Alert actually appears in the first five minutes. #tng
Ok, I've put this off long enough. Time to start my full rewatch of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Feel free to unfollow me now. #tng
ON WITH THE LIVEBLOG
1:04: Man, they are literally giving Wil Wheaton the POV shot. I try and ignore the obvious Mary Sue accusations, but they make it really hard when they start the sappy music and everything.
1:14: gaaahh fuck.
1:18: My love for the Picard-Crusher 'ship is so strong, I am already dreading her absence in a season's time.
1:19: This first season really requires you to give in to the maudlin and cheesy aspects of the program as it finds its footing, especially re:Troi.
1:21: Oh snap I just remembered how this episode ends.
1:23: Man, Q is really overplaying his hand here. An early sign of how deep his love for Jean-Luc is?
I had forgotten that the holodeck sequence isn't just a nice bit of "Ooh look at our fancy new Enterprise/fancy new series" but actually contains a nice bit of foreshadowing towards the fake science that forms a puzzle piece of the end of the episode.
1:24: Say what you will about their special effects, but some of this stuff really is gorgeous to behold. Good on you, old show.
1:27: WHAT ARE THOSE BRISTLY TENDRILS BLOWING IN
THERE IS NO WIND IN SPACE
(ok gorgeous to behold but hella silly if you think about it even 4% too hard.)
Oh, Troi.
1:29: Ah, first incidence of "Mon capitaine." I love that this show was ready from Day One to commit to a long-term arc for this traditionally planet-of-the-week story engine.
Oh my god Riker could you spread your legs any further you dork you are on the bridge.
1:30: oh my god I want to be ironic but when he says Engage at the end I threw my hands up to my face and almost I swear almost giggled
Tonight's palate cleansing song: MF Doom vs. Li'l Wayne - A Milli: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj-cBJAfzmc
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