GIP, plus bitching!

[thehefner]

I'll be perfectly honest, this is a GIP. Only a small handful will get the joke in the icon as it is. I mean, it's from an era in Green Lantern history that I'd much rather forget, but for god's sake, it just fits so perfectly, I had to. Forgive me, Hal, you jail-bait-alien-tapping bastard you.

(although honestly, she's an alien. If it's anything, it's bestiality. He'd be in good company with John Stewart, Abby Arcane, and Lois Lane)

But while I'm here, I'm just gonna bitch pointlessly for a moment. Feel free to skip.

I just found out I'm working Saturday and thus I had to send an e-mail (I would have called, but couldn't get him) my director to tell him that I wouldn't be in to rehearsal Saturday morning. DAMN IT! I feel so guilty, I hate when I overbook my obligations and get so swamped that I don't give advance notice and screw up somebody else's schedule. I wouldn't feel so bad if it weren't for the fact that we go up in one month. Hopefully he'll be ok with it.

I used to think that at times like this I could pull the whole "I need to put my actual job ahead for now, at least before tech week" card, but the fact that this actually is, for once, a basically professional, paying role (my first ever! 3% of the total box office) I feel like there's even more weight on his side.

Oh, and in other news, J.J. Abrams of ALIAS and LOST fame (and the upcoming MI:3, which more and more I am fearing is actually going to be a great movie) is teaming up with Damon Lindelof to direct a KIRK/SPOCK movie. As a mild fan of Trek, I am kinda geekgasming. What say you?

Comments

[findingjuliet.livejournal.com]

if anyone can make MI:3 a good movie it is mister abrams. I'm going to have to see it just for him. he is a master at his craft. but what do i know?? I've only been his biggest fan girl for about 10 years :) !

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Add to that it has Simon Pegg of SHAUN OF THE DEAD fame as well as my doppleganger.

By the way, 2 issues of Damon's Wolverine/Hulk comic have come out. It's been fun and he's been having a blast doing it.

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

I don't consider myself a Star Trek fan. I was a huge trekkie back when there was just TOS, but I never reeally warmed to TNG. I greatly enjoyed DS9 (which is by the same guy now doing Battlestar Galactica), but stopped watching Voyager after two ugly seasons and just never found the time to bother to watch Enterprise.

So I don't have any attachment to the franchise. Nor in fact do I have any attachment to the characters of Kirk and Spock; with new actors, new writers, etc. they'd basically be brand new characters with the same names.

J.J. Abrams makes me nervous. Alias set up some great ideas, and as long as the mysical juju was just a macguffin I was fine just watching the dramatic tension, but the more magical the series got the less I cared. Magic really gets in the way of dramatic tension for me, because it doesn't follow any rules and so I can't really feel for the situation in which the characters find themselves. It lets writers paint themselves neat mysteries without solutions. So on Alias he just pushed the reset button every so often, and I stopped watching.

I've been watching Lost, and while the mysteries he sets up are cool, I am certain that the solutions to them will be lame. And the longer the series goes on, the lamer the solutions to the mysteries will get.

So Abrams doing Trek? I'll watch the pilot. If the writing is as sharp as Lost I'll consider keeping watching it. But if he starts introducing magical mysteries I'll find better things to do. I only watch one hour of TV a week and it has to be the best show on television.

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

Bah. Of course it's a movie, not a TV show. Yeah, I'll go see it. But I doubt I'll be clamoring for sequels.