Galacticast: Sean Bonner is Wil Wheaton is Wesley Crusher
...and that's about all you need to know as proof that the newly released Galacticast episode "Starfleet Academy" is hilare. I heard about this some weeks ago, but could not blog under promise of STFU. Video Link.
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Wow... that's a really long (and poorly acted) way around to calling someone a motherfucker...
Yeah, I had that same sort of uncomfortable chuckle that one gets from watching a particularly bad but heartfelt school play.
Tht's gt t fll nt th "f r frnds d t, t smply >mst b brllnt" ctgry . . . as far as I could tell there was no discernible talent or humor on display, and the only point seemed to be an extended slam at J.J. Abrams. A clever germ of an idea and a well-executed skit are just not the same thing.
It's still better than anything Abrams has ever done. This IS the guy who was going to be writing the superman movie where luthor turns out to be an alien. The only credibility he had was Lost and he shat on it as much as he could.
I can already see his version of Star Trek, filled with obscure tv actors & post-modernist references and sly nods and winks to other trek films and series.
The scriptwriters are the guys who wrote transformers, so maybe there's something there, but when fans say Star Trek needs new faces, they didn't have Abrams in mind. Well, maybe the suits at Paramount, but they're not fans. They're fans of product placement and BO returns.
What the franchise needs is an Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter), James Cameron (aliens) or a Guillermo Del Toro (Blade 2). Someone at the helm with singular vision and commercial appeal.
Look at where Ronald Moore took the series with Deep Space Nine and First Contact.
With Abrams, we're heading towards Armageddon, and that movie had wings only because Michael Bay was at the helm.
Abrams is all hype and no substance. Throw this motherfrakker out the airlock.
The acting was sort of like silent-movie style, where they had to telegraph everything with mugging big gestures. Put some eyeshadow on the cast and add a swarthy sheik, and it's a Valentino film.
The mincing Wesley was good, though. A shame he was upstaged by his sweater.
I was with you up until James "King of the World" Cameron.
There is a man that finds himself way, way too delectable. Don't get me wrong, I had a severe lady-boner for the man, between Aliens, Terminator and The Abyss, but that withered somewhere between Titanic and Dark Angel. Also, this upcoming Avatar is supposed to be his return to science fiction, but he's digitally rotoscoping it, an affectation that has so far never worked in a single movie. I have low hopes.
I guess I'd take him over Abrams, though it's a little like voting between Bush and Kerry.
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I would say that rotoscoping worked pretty darn well in Renaissance. But I will have to agree on Cameron, he lost his edge along time ago.
I don't care what anybody thinks of the rest of it, "I sense frustration...in your pants," is god damned funny.
Wow. That was terrible.
That said, I actually think "starfleet acadamy" would be a GREAT show.
I'd watch it. They had Riker down pretty good. And their Troi actually captured the "suck the life out of every scene I'm in" essence of the original.
Oh totally, I didn't mean that Cameron should do Kirk, but that a Cameron from the 80s is sorely needed today, rather than JJ Abrams soapy action and Michael Bay's cool but now overused 360 degree action.