#ScribesAndMakers day 1: Does the change to a new calendar year affect your creativity in any way?
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@kagan And the MUSIC from that part of Spirited Away is one of my favorites from Joe Hisaishi (though there are many contenders.
Yeah, the dreamlike nature of that ride across the water is really something.
EDIT: the music wasn't quite right for that -_-
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#ScribesAndMakers day 17: What's an animated movie you love?
_Princess Mononoke,_ by Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli.
#ScribesAndMakers day 18: Vinyl, compact disc, digital, or radio?
Digital. It's nice not to have to lug around lots of physical objects to have music.
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@kagan @dyana His work must be seen in the original art, never a print. The presence is powerful. Scale, tones, texture all make a significant impression. The kind of work where no one in the room it was in would ever start chatting. It’s monumental IRL and a surprise likely if you’ve never seen his work.
Thanks for the perspective! I have seen his work in person. I think I need to stand in front of one with a friend who does like it so they can explain it to me.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 18: Vinyl, compact disc, digital, or radio?
Digital. It's nice not to have to lug around lots of physical objects to have music.
#ScribesAndMakers day 20: When it comes to theater, do you prefer tragedy or comedy?
Comedy, although it's a close thing. Watching someone completely ruin their life can be grand and full of pathos, and many of the best soliloquies are from tragedies, not comedies. But in the end, I prefer to walk out of the theater having laughed and had fun rather than having gone, "OMG, can you please not do the obviously catastrophic things?" for a couple of hours.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 20: When it comes to theater, do you prefer tragedy or comedy?
Comedy, although it's a close thing. Watching someone completely ruin their life can be grand and full of pathos, and many of the best soliloquies are from tragedies, not comedies. But in the end, I prefer to walk out of the theater having laughed and had fun rather than having gone, "OMG, can you please not do the obviously catastrophic things?" for a couple of hours.
#ScribesAndMakers day 23: If you garden, do you give away anything that you grow? If so, what do you give away the most of?
I don't garden.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 23: If you garden, do you give away anything that you grow? If so, what do you give away the most of?
I don't garden.
#ScribesAndMakers day 24: What's a work of science fiction that you love? What do you love about it?
I'm going to say, completely unironically: ST:TOS. Maybe it's partly because I grew up on it — and look, I'm not saying *every* episode; some of them were real stinkers¹ — but by and large, the message that humanity can come together, overcome our differences, triumph over the three evils of racism, militarism, and greed, and even ally with alien species in the pursuit of... 1/2
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#ScribesAndMakers day 24: What's a work of science fiction that you love? What do you love about it?
I'm going to say, completely unironically: ST:TOS. Maybe it's partly because I grew up on it — and look, I'm not saying *every* episode; some of them were real stinkers¹ — but by and large, the message that humanity can come together, overcome our differences, triumph over the three evils of racism, militarism, and greed, and even ally with alien species in the pursuit of... 1/2
...knowledge and peace, is one that I wish more works would promote, and more people would follow, today. 2/2
1. I know, you're thinking of "Spock's Brain". But "The Empath" is even worse. Hoo boy, does that one suck!
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...knowledge and peace, is one that I wish more works would promote, and more people would follow, today. 2/2
1. I know, you're thinking of "Spock's Brain". But "The Empath" is even worse. Hoo boy, does that one suck!
@kagan
funny story, it took me years to get my spouse to watch ST:TOS with me because every time he came across it in reruns as a kid/young adult, the episode airing was "Miri."
(An episode he loathes to this day)
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Hm. I wonder how much of my love for Awful Cinema comes from enjoying even the stinker episodes of TOS. -
@kagan
funny story, it took me years to get my spouse to watch ST:TOS with me because every time he came across it in reruns as a kid/young adult, the episode airing was "Miri."
(An episode he loathes to this day)
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Hm. I wonder how much of my love for Awful Cinema comes from enjoying even the stinker episodes of TOS.@kmherkes When I first saw "Miri", I didn't see the problem with it.
In my defense, I was maybe 8 years old?
I forget when it was that I saw a little of it as a post-pubescent, rather than pre-pubescent, person and went "yikes".
But anyway, yeah. Not enough yikes in the world for that one.
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@kmherkes When I first saw "Miri", I didn't see the problem with it.
In my defense, I was maybe 8 years old?
I forget when it was that I saw a little of it as a post-pubescent, rather than pre-pubescent, person and went "yikes".
But anyway, yeah. Not enough yikes in the world for that one.
@kagan lol yes, "not enough yikes in the world" is a great description.
I was probably the same age as you on first viewing and also loved it (an episode all about kids? AWEsome!)
As an adult, even as a teen, yeaaaaah, no.
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@kagan lol yes, "not enough yikes in the world" is a great description.
I was probably the same age as you on first viewing and also loved it (an episode all about kids? AWEsome!)
As an adult, even as a teen, yeaaaaah, no.
@kmherkes Exactly! As a kid, I thought it was hilarious that these kids were beating up the Enterprise crew with rocks, and the word "grups" became part of my vocabulary for a little while. (Honestly, that term is a part of the episode that still works just fine. Nice, realistic-feeling piece of worldbuilding there.)
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@kagan
funny story, it took me years to get my spouse to watch ST:TOS with me because every time he came across it in reruns as a kid/young adult, the episode airing was "Miri."
(An episode he loathes to this day)
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Hm. I wonder how much of my love for Awful Cinema comes from enjoying even the stinker episodes of TOS. -
Oh, no, poor Dad!
I mean, could've been worse, but still.How strange that multiple people seem to have always ended up seeing only ONE trek episode.
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...knowledge and peace, is one that I wish more works would promote, and more people would follow, today. 2/2
1. I know, you're thinking of "Spock's Brain". But "The Empath" is even worse. Hoo boy, does that one suck!
@kagan I’m an unreconstructed original series fan. I think it has more good episodes than The Next Generation, and by a pretty wide margin. And its peak episodes blow NextGen’s out of the water.
TOS did finally get lapped in quality by Babylon 5, but B5 was arguably playing a somewhat different game, so the comparison may be unfair.
The only season of Trek I’ve seen which I think surpassed the first two of TOS is the first season of Picard.
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@ElyseMGrasso Wild.
I mean, if I were to be told, "You can only ever see 1 TOS episode ever again in your life. It will always be this one. Make a list of the top 10 episodes you'd choose," that one would probably be on the list (albeit near the bottom). So yeah, like @kmherkes said, could've been much worse.
That ep is a bit difficult to take seriously, but that's okay; it doesn't really *want* to be taken seriously. It's just 48 minutes of fun, start to finish! 1/2
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@ElyseMGrasso Wild.
I mean, if I were to be told, "You can only ever see 1 TOS episode ever again in your life. It will always be this one. Make a list of the top 10 episodes you'd choose," that one would probably be on the list (albeit near the bottom). So yeah, like @kmherkes said, could've been much worse.
That ep is a bit difficult to take seriously, but that's okay; it doesn't really *want* to be taken seriously. It's just 48 minutes of fun, start to finish! 1/2
@ElyseMGrasso @kmherkes Heck, I'll even give Spock a pass for misusing "youse" (in the immortal line "I would advise youse to keep dialin'," directed at the singular Okmyx), because seriously, why should Spock know that youse is a plural pronoun? C'mon, this episode has fizzbin (and Spock's deadpan reply to Kirk asking the odds of a royal fizzbin: "I have never computed them" — I love the *technical* truthfulness there!), and Kirk walking on a pool table, and also sharp suits. Gotta love it! 2/2
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@kagan I’m an unreconstructed original series fan. I think it has more good episodes than The Next Generation, and by a pretty wide margin. And its peak episodes blow NextGen’s out of the water.
TOS did finally get lapped in quality by Babylon 5, but B5 was arguably playing a somewhat different game, so the comparison may be unfair.
The only season of Trek I’ve seen which I think surpassed the first two of TOS is the first season of Picard.
@mrawdon "More good TOS eps than TNG" is a bold claim... and now I'm looking over episode titles, trying to see if I agree or not. It's a hell of a thought exercise, and I think I might have to rewatch all of both shows to come to a final conclusion.
I *do not* have the time for that in my life right now. But props for the boldness!
I agree B5 was: 1) awesome; 2) playing a different game.
Haven't seen any of _Picard_ yet.
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@mrawdon "More good TOS eps than TNG" is a bold claim... and now I'm looking over episode titles, trying to see if I agree or not. It's a hell of a thought exercise, and I think I might have to rewatch all of both shows to come to a final conclusion.
I *do not* have the time for that in my life right now. But props for the boldness!
I agree B5 was: 1) awesome; 2) playing a different game.
Haven't seen any of _Picard_ yet.
@kagan My top ten original series episodes, in the order they come to mind:
The Doomsday Machine
The Ultimate Computer
The Menagerie
Court Martial
The Enterprise Incident (yay season 3 had one great episode!)
Amok Time
Arena
Balance of Terror
Errand of Mercy
The Trouble with TribblesOutside looking in:
City on the Edge of Forever (good ep; I am not as ga-ga over it as many are, and I have no opinion as to whether Ellison’s original script - which I have read - would have been better)
Mirror Mirror
Space Seed
Day of the Dove (hey, another S3 episode!)
(The Tholian Web is also good!)I guess my favorite NextGen episode at this point would be “Q Who”. I wasn’t a fan of the show the first time around and it’s aged poorly.
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...knowledge and peace, is one that I wish more works would promote, and more people would follow, today. 2/2
1. I know, you're thinking of "Spock's Brain". But "The Empath" is even worse. Hoo boy, does that one suck!
#ScribesAndMakers day 25: You're going on a creative retreat. What's the most important thing you need to bring with you?
My laptop, obvi! I can't write without it.
Okay, assuming "whatever tools you need to do the creating" are considered to be already included, then... what the hell, I'm going with the alexandrite earrings and pendant my sweetie gave me as things to spur creativity.
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@kagan My top ten original series episodes, in the order they come to mind:
The Doomsday Machine
The Ultimate Computer
The Menagerie
Court Martial
The Enterprise Incident (yay season 3 had one great episode!)
Amok Time
Arena
Balance of Terror
Errand of Mercy
The Trouble with TribblesOutside looking in:
City on the Edge of Forever (good ep; I am not as ga-ga over it as many are, and I have no opinion as to whether Ellison’s original script - which I have read - would have been better)
Mirror Mirror
Space Seed
Day of the Dove (hey, another S3 episode!)
(The Tholian Web is also good!)I guess my favorite NextGen episode at this point would be “Q Who”. I wasn’t a fan of the show the first time around and it’s aged poorly.
@mrawdon For me, I can't honestly do a fair "off the top of my head" comparison between TOS and TNG. I saw nearly all TOS episodes multiple times in my childhood, and reinforced that with readings of the James Blish novelizations. I *know* those things, really well. Give me any title and I'll give you the plot summary; give me any plot summary, and I'll spit out the title. 1/4
