What's the point of a revolution without general copulation?

Is actually spoilery for Star Trek Into Darkness, but only for that THING that everyone already knows anyway, so -

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Oh my god that was terrible.

The dialogue was so stilted, the action so over the top, it was like a parody of a science fiction movie. I kept expecting a voice to yell "cut" and then the camera would pull back to reveal a movie set in a Hollywood satire.

this .gif has been making me unreasonably happy for the past 24 hours.

Details.

Unfortunately, between Festivids and Real Life, all I am able to offer is a selection of links to things I saw on Tumblr that gave me joy.

The Les Mis thing (which is a lot like the Merlin thing)

Princess Avengers (the Pocahontas one is perfection itself)

This cat

These pandas

I would buy this in a heartbeat

This keyboard modification

These women

Katharine Hepburn in Holiday (which is an awesome movie, but they cut the best line from the play)

Castiel vs. Captain America

Old and new. And another one

I want to attend this

Suddenly my childhood love of Barbie is rekindled

Japanese version, which has a little more - and more spoilery - footage at the end of it than the American version. Although I doubt very much you'll be able to escape the footage in the trailer even if you're trying to remain unspoiled, so may as well dive in.

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My nonspoilery comment is - I wish they had done it better.

The movie is almost 3 hours long and it's got a lot of fat, including seemingly-interminable amounts of philosophical posturing, at least half of which is entirely banal and at least somewhat contradictory. The movie would have been dramatically improved if the excess had been cut, and they'd taken the time to actually weave the non-banal parts of the philosophy into the narrative. I can think of so many ways that the final segment would have had a much more terrifying impact, if there hadn't been so much wasted time up until then.

And my other comment is - and I don't think this is spoilery, either? But I'm putting it behind a cut anyway -

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The cuteness.

I amuse myself by imagining the meeting where the creators of Star Trek IV pitched their story idea to the studio.

I'm waiting until someone just builds a holodeck, okay?





i hate it when my FList goes places I cannot follow

Leave No Soul Behind. It's an absolutely massive Star Trek Reboot AU in which Nero continues to ravage the Federation, and Spock and Kirk are part of an organization that conducts dangerous search-and-rescue-type missions. It looks like the author was writing it for about a year and a half. Plotty with unbelievable world-building and relationship development. I had such a terrific time reading this.

Edit: AO3 link here.