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I'm no one but a face, just a stranger in a stranger place
And today the air is hot and wet and does not smell like the sea, which means it's just sort of steambath-y. My hair at once reacted accordingly. The cats have melted onto the hardwood. Conditions had better improve once the sun goes down.
1. Can anyone recommend me a heroic Jewish starship captain who is not Ivanova in Season Four of Babylon 5 (1993–98)? Books, TV, film, whatever. Brought to you by thinking that Jason Isaacs' character on Star Trek: Discovery is not going to be it.
(Just to be clear, I had no expectation that he would be. Isaacs is Jewish, but his characters rarely are; the captain of the Discovery is named Lorca, so, sure, he could be Sephardi, lots of people are, but Hollywood and associated American media never seem to remember that Jews can be found in natural habitats outside of New York. Also from the promotional material it sounds as though the character will be some kind of spectacular fuck-up, but that's less relevant, especially since from the promotional material I thought Michelle Yeoh would be part of the regular cast. I just suddenly realized I wanted some Jews in space who were not aliens in a cultural metaphor. Really I should be re-reading Phyllis Gotlieb, but most of my authors starting with G are still in a box.)
2. I have been listening to this song a lot lately: The Clientele, "Lunar Days." It's gentle, drifting, a little haunted; it's more autumnal than the weather right now. When it's late November and you're lost in the leaves / And you speak in beaten copper tongues that nobody hears / And I'll come up and see you if I get out alive / I quit work at half past nine on Friday night.
3. The trailer for Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) looks pretty great.
1. Can anyone recommend me a heroic Jewish starship captain who is not Ivanova in Season Four of Babylon 5 (1993–98)? Books, TV, film, whatever. Brought to you by thinking that Jason Isaacs' character on Star Trek: Discovery is not going to be it.
(Just to be clear, I had no expectation that he would be. Isaacs is Jewish, but his characters rarely are; the captain of the Discovery is named Lorca, so, sure, he could be Sephardi, lots of people are, but Hollywood and associated American media never seem to remember that Jews can be found in natural habitats outside of New York. Also from the promotional material it sounds as though the character will be some kind of spectacular fuck-up, but that's less relevant, especially since from the promotional material I thought Michelle Yeoh would be part of the regular cast. I just suddenly realized I wanted some Jews in space who were not aliens in a cultural metaphor. Really I should be re-reading Phyllis Gotlieb, but most of my authors starting with G are still in a box.)
2. I have been listening to this song a lot lately: The Clientele, "Lunar Days." It's gentle, drifting, a little haunted; it's more autumnal than the weather right now. When it's late November and you're lost in the leaves / And you speak in beaten copper tongues that nobody hears / And I'll come up and see you if I get out alive / I quit work at half past nine on Friday night.
3. The trailer for Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) looks pretty great.
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I have heard very little about the latest Trek but none of it has inspired me.
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I didn't know that existed! I'll check it out.
I have heard very little about the latest Trek but none of it has inspired me.
In the immediate aftermath of the premiere, I heard a bunch of positive vagueblogging and then I heard some very specific things that gave me pause; I'm not watching it because I can't afford the streaming, but for the sake of Star Trek (and some of the people involved) I'm hoping it works out.
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I am impressed by its commitment thus far to passing the Bechdel Test.
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That's fair. I'm glad you are enjoying it and I hope it gets less idiot as it goes.
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(meanwhile i'm downloading them shhhh)
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I'm in it!
(This is me.)
I should definitely re-check the two Wandering Stars anthologies, though. I haven't read either in years.
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I'm really glad!
(I could not think of a tactful way to say anything, so I just went for the parenthetical blurt. I had not thought to re-read either Wandering Stars, though, and I appreciate the review reminding me.)
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OF COURSE THERE ARE NO BEARS ON HEMLOCK MOUNTAIN NO BEARS NO BEARS NO BEARS NO BEARS AT ALL.
For "bears," read "climate change."
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Answering your Jewish Starship CO Question
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Cool! What is his relationship to the canonical Trek universe if he's on Memory Beta?
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I would really like it to be good: I would like a modern version of Trek that I enjoy, as opposed to the reboot movies where I had fun at the first one and then the more time I spent away from the theater, the more I realized I disliked almost every single major adaptation choice it had made. I liked a lot of the casting decisions for Discovery. It just seems to have blown up one of the major ones and I'm hoping that when the dust settles, it actually knows what it's doing.
And just crowbar Ivanova into everything with my mind.
I really feel this cannot hurt.
Annihilation looks great though; I can't wait!
Agreed. I know it won't be an exact translation of the book, but I want to see what it is.
In the meantime I'll reread The Southern Reach and scowl at Waterstones' bookshelves until Borne appears.
I didn't realize it wasn't out where you are! Godspeed to it.