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Dec. 18th, 2015 04:29 pmSo, okay, FINE, I broke down and watched the trailer for the new Star Trek movie ... and it looks AMAZING. Dammit. XD I just happen to have an enormous weakness for the particular trope they appear to be doing in this one, as anyone who's ever read one of my fanfics can probably tell. I didn't see the last one (and everything I heard about it sounded terrible) but this one, uh. Yes. I'm there for it.
... and I haven't seen Star Wars yet! I'm dying to see it, but I think we might let the crowds die down a bit first. So interesting to be getting both a new Star Wars and a new Star Trek within just a few months of each other!
It's always hard to tease out which are formative influences and which are things I liked because I already liked those narrative tropes, but both of these things were big for me when I was a kid. I think Star Trek a little more than Star Wars, because I saw it much younger -- Trek is one of the first things I remember ever seeing on TV (long before we had a TV at home; I only ever got to see TV at my cousins' and at family friends' houses for quite awhile due to lack of electricity at home), and my sister and I used to play "Star Trek" exploring-an-alien-planet games and draw fan comics at a very young age, whereas I don't think I saw the Star Wars movies until I was an older child. I remember very clearly watching Star Trek III at my cousins' house and being so shocked and horrified that they blew up the Enterprise; I reacted to it more strongly than I ever would have to an individual character's death! THEY CAN'T DO THAT! I was so indignant about it. (My mom had to reassure me that it would be okay. Which of course it was.) Whereas I don't have similarly vivid memories of the first time I saw any of the Star Wars movies.
On the other hand, my imagination was caught harder by Star Wars than Star Trek, as far as the kind of things that it made me want to imagine and to write -- I think I was (and still am) more into gritty, slightly dystopian futures than bright, optimistic ones. And the Star Wars character dynamics, the whole awkwardly-becoming-friends thing, hit me hard. If I had known fanfic was a thing, I would probably have written a million tags/missing scenes for the lost-on-Hoth sequence at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back.
They were both strong influences, though, along with about a million space-adventure and fantasy-adventure kids' cartoons from the '80s. (This 80s cartoon intro montage I stumbled across the other day was not only a fun blast from the past, but also a sort of a window onto my formative space-opera tastes.)
I also realized today that it's ONE MONTH 'TIL NEW AGENT CARTER EPISODES. Not that I'm looking forward to it or anything.
... and I haven't seen Star Wars yet! I'm dying to see it, but I think we might let the crowds die down a bit first. So interesting to be getting both a new Star Wars and a new Star Trek within just a few months of each other!
It's always hard to tease out which are formative influences and which are things I liked because I already liked those narrative tropes, but both of these things were big for me when I was a kid. I think Star Trek a little more than Star Wars, because I saw it much younger -- Trek is one of the first things I remember ever seeing on TV (long before we had a TV at home; I only ever got to see TV at my cousins' and at family friends' houses for quite awhile due to lack of electricity at home), and my sister and I used to play "Star Trek" exploring-an-alien-planet games and draw fan comics at a very young age, whereas I don't think I saw the Star Wars movies until I was an older child. I remember very clearly watching Star Trek III at my cousins' house and being so shocked and horrified that they blew up the Enterprise; I reacted to it more strongly than I ever would have to an individual character's death! THEY CAN'T DO THAT! I was so indignant about it. (My mom had to reassure me that it would be okay. Which of course it was.) Whereas I don't have similarly vivid memories of the first time I saw any of the Star Wars movies.
On the other hand, my imagination was caught harder by Star Wars than Star Trek, as far as the kind of things that it made me want to imagine and to write -- I think I was (and still am) more into gritty, slightly dystopian futures than bright, optimistic ones. And the Star Wars character dynamics, the whole awkwardly-becoming-friends thing, hit me hard. If I had known fanfic was a thing, I would probably have written a million tags/missing scenes for the lost-on-Hoth sequence at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back.
They were both strong influences, though, along with about a million space-adventure and fantasy-adventure kids' cartoons from the '80s. (This 80s cartoon intro montage I stumbled across the other day was not only a fun blast from the past, but also a sort of a window onto my formative space-opera tastes.)
I also realized today that it's ONE MONTH 'TIL NEW AGENT CARTER EPISODES. Not that I'm looking forward to it or anything.