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Jul. 13th, 2005 04:54 pmFirstly, yesterday I learned that Patrick Stewart, who turns 65 today, and Ian McKellan are going to play Prospero and Lear respectively in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 season. I don't care how, but I must make it to Stratford next year.
Secondly, I watched more Enterprise, and must say that all of you who told me season 4 was good really haven't exaggarated. It's no DS9, but it's an enjoyable space show, and I would have liked for it to continue. Again, there were several things for an old Trekker to squee about, and thankfully it seems the Augments had been the last instance where a group was depicted as uniformely the same. Be it Romulans, Klingons or the Mirror equivalents of our own gang, there was no more follow the leader unquestioningly nonsense.
( Interstellar intrigue and mirror universes, oh, my )
Only a few more episodes let, and now I'm sorry for it. I've grown fond of the gang.
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Today is also a good day for a multifandom girl like me.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hobsonphile posted our list of Signs You Are A Centauriphile; all Babylon 5 watchers, please take note. honorh, proving that badgering your friends is a perfectly legitimate tactic, posted the Star Wars Fashion Critique from her evil alter ego I had been begging for persistently. And kangeiko wrote another superb story, an Alias one, set post-season 4: "Tale of the Dead Princess".
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Lastly, returning to Patrick Stewart: just a few reasons why he's so worth gushing over. He can play villains (Sejanus in I, Claudius, for example) as easily as men of conscience (Picard and Charles Xavier, obviously), hardened obsessives (Ahab in Moby Dick) as easily as men falling apart (The Masterbuilder, an Ibsen play I andkathyh) saw him in. He is one of the few actors who can make the act of listening as interesting as a close-up of them when they're talking; you always get the impression there is something going on behind the eyes. He can do stoic, he can emote like no-one's business. (Not coincidentally, the episode which made me fall for Picard was Sarek in which our Captain gets to channel Sarek's and his own long surpressed emotions for a scene; what makes this so powerful, more so than if it had been, say, Kirk or Sisko who are both openly emotional types is that you know how tight a reign Picard usually keeps on himself.) And last but certainly not least, he has a divine voice. May the public benefit from it for many years more!
Secondly, I watched more Enterprise, and must say that all of you who told me season 4 was good really haven't exaggarated. It's no DS9, but it's an enjoyable space show, and I would have liked for it to continue. Again, there were several things for an old Trekker to squee about, and thankfully it seems the Augments had been the last instance where a group was depicted as uniformely the same. Be it Romulans, Klingons or the Mirror equivalents of our own gang, there was no more follow the leader unquestioningly nonsense.
( Interstellar intrigue and mirror universes, oh, my )
Only a few more episodes let, and now I'm sorry for it. I've grown fond of the gang.
****
Today is also a good day for a multifandom girl like me.
hobsonphile posted our list of Signs You Are A Centauriphile; all Babylon 5 watchers, please take note. honorh, proving that badgering your friends is a perfectly legitimate tactic, posted the Star Wars Fashion Critique from her evil alter ego I had been begging for persistently. And kangeiko wrote another superb story, an Alias one, set post-season 4: "Tale of the Dead Princess".****
Lastly, returning to Patrick Stewart: just a few reasons why he's so worth gushing over. He can play villains (Sejanus in I, Claudius, for example) as easily as men of conscience (Picard and Charles Xavier, obviously), hardened obsessives (Ahab in Moby Dick) as easily as men falling apart (The Masterbuilder, an Ibsen play I and
kathyh) saw him in. He is one of the few actors who can make the act of listening as interesting as a close-up of them when they're talking; you always get the impression there is something going on behind the eyes. He can do stoic, he can emote like no-one's business. (Not coincidentally, the episode which made me fall for Picard was Sarek in which our Captain gets to channel Sarek's and his own long surpressed emotions for a scene; what makes this so powerful, more so than if it had been, say, Kirk or Sisko who are both openly emotional types is that you know how tight a reign Picard usually keeps on himself.) And last but certainly not least, he has a divine voice. May the public benefit from it for many years more!
