In Which I Make Fun of SyFy Portal For Telling Me About Things I'm Actually Interested In

This article is just silly.

"Zachary Quinto, who plays a young Spock in J.J. Abrams' upcoming "Star Trek" movie, based his characterization as much on the film's script as on Leonard Nimoy's previous performance of the iconic character."

Whoa... hold on. You're blowing my mind, SyFy Portal. SERIOUSLY? He like, watched the old show and old movies to figure out what his character would be like? And then he based HIS performance off the only other actor to ever officially play the character?! I'm completely shocked. I never knew an actor would do something so obvious to prepare for a role like that.

Why is this news? I can see wanting to know about it if Quinto was like "eff Nimoy" and decided to do what he wanted, but hearing "Oh, yeah, so he's basing it off the original performance of the character" is not something I need to know about.

I do, however, enjoy knowing that the first time Quinto put the ears on was a moment he shared with his dog.

Also, look at the desktop thing:

I got it off the official website, in the downloads section. There's one with Kirk, Uhura, and I guess whoever's the bad guy. I don't know enough about the plot to have an idea of who he is (and I don't care to, no spoilers for me). But I picked Spock, because I'm talking about him, and also, Spock is the coolest.

In other news, the new Caprica TV show might be starting in the fall. They say they haven't decided if they're airing the telemovie as a telemovie or as the start of the full season. AWESOME. This is interesting because more or less it means we'll have a totally new show about Caprica to get excited about before the end of BSG even happens. Like weaning yourself off heroin with cocaine. Here's the article talking about that. It is also talking about the other BSG telemovie they're working on, saying that it's probably going to be about totally new characters, and apparently this is cause for speculation about another spinoff besides Caprica. ...I'll withhold judgment for now, but let's not get carried away, okay kids?

Last but not least, what the heck is this. Steven Spielberg called up Steven Moffat and was like "write this movie for me"? I don't know why I think this is weird, but I do. I do know Spielberg is a Who fan, which probably means he drooled all over "Blink" just like everyone else in the universe and then decided that he needed Moffat to come make something with him because was obviously teh awsome!!!1!. I don't know where I'm going with this. The gist of it is, Moffat said no because he wanted to do Doctor Who instead of some sequels to Spielberg's Tintin thing (I guess he already wrote the first one). Which I know nothing about other than it's another comic book adaptation. The article is funny though, because it has this huge headline saying Moffat turned down Spielberg, and he was turning down ALLLLL this money to not do it, and then it quotes Moffat as saying, "I hope you don't make what happened sound too dramatic." Ha. Well, he tried.

Oh J.J.

He does love his internet easter eggs, doesn't he. I mean, there's the whole Lost Experience, first of all, and then there were all the random websites having to do with Cloverfield, complete with Myspace profiles for the characters... and now there's this. That's the official Star Trek movie website. There's a neat little trailer, showing people working on the Enterprise (as in the construction of it) and then Leonard Nimoy says "Space: the final frontier." It's a teaser, that's all. But lo and behold... if you look hard enough, there is a nifty easter egg. Just... click around for it. It's not too hard to find.

If you think it is too hard to find, go here and they will tell you.

Star Trek Redux

So apparently, the only thing that's going to be the same about the Enterprise in the new movie by J.J. Abrams is going to be the outward appearance. They're not going to retain the colorful retro look. Is this a good or bad thing? It seems to me that the whole thing is going to be really different from the old show. It's more of a reinvention than a sequel or continuation of anything that already existed. That seems to be a trend these days - reinventing old classics for a new generation. Generally, I'm not upset about this, especially since the creators have for the most part paid the proper respect due to the older version. I mean, why would they even be making it over again if they didn't want other people to love it the way they did when they were kids? ...Money, I guess, but still. They wouldn't be doing it if they didn't think the original idea was a great one. (Which show am I even talking about now... I mean, take your pick.)

Anyway... I'm looking forward to this movie. I'm not a hardcore enough Trekkie - or even a Trekkie at all, really - to be that upset about major changes. I think it's good for something like this to evolve. What's fun about doing it the same every time? Not a lot, in my opinion. That show was made in the sixties. Things are different now. People expect a lot more from their entertainment. I'm pretty relaxed about this movie because I trust J.J. Abrams, and I like the cast list for this movie.

The article up there says there's going to be a sneak preview/teaser trailer thing at the beginning of Cloverfield, which I'm incredibly excited about. (You can be sure that as soon as I see that movie I will tell you what I thought about it.)