I've read Doctor Zhivago cover to cover, it doesn't make me the Czar.

[bubbles83]

Apparently, my dad's boss is giving our family a trip to Mexico. In December we'll go down to Puerto Vallarta for five days. If my dad isn't making the whole thing up. Which, you know, is possible. My dad does stuff like that sometimes. It could be fun. It could also be an unmitigated disaster. You never can tell with my family.

I really want to go see PotC 3, but my mom is busy and we can't. I could go with my brother tonight (well, probably not since we don't have tickets yet), but I'd feel bad seeing it without her. We saw the first and second ones together, it's one of our things.


It wasn't as awesome as I'd hoped it would be, but I still enjoyed it. It didn't have anything to do with Martha, who was awesome, but... well I'm not really sure what it was. I like Joan, I liked the creepy scarecrows, I liked that psychic kid who is from Love Actually. I think it was the lack of the Doctor. I mean, obviously he was on it, but he wasn't him, and I enjoy Ten, so I wish I had gotten Ten. Instead, I got the dude that let's a little kid get beaten. Accurate for the time? Probably. But still.

I liked the shippy bits. The Doctor trusts Martha implicitly. He trusts her to know what to do, and to know when to open the watch. I mean hell, he trusts her with the watch. He said thank you to her and gave her that wonderful smile. Obviously, They Are In No Way Doing It.

I'm sure I'll enjoy it more upon rewatching it. Also, other people's squee usually makes me go, "Yeah, that was awesome." So maybe all is not lost yet. Tell me your favorite part so that I can test my theory and we can squee together. :)

Comments

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

I know I don't know you.

But I've got to say I don't know how you can say Freema's a million times better than any Star Trek actors. Unless, of course, you don't know much about it.

There are some damn fine actors in Star Trek. I love Martha and Freema, but Freema is inexperienced and somewhat sloppy. She's doing a fine job in spite of that, however.

But she isn't at the caliber, say, Patrick Stewart. ;)

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

I'm quite familiar with Star Trek. And while I'm prone to hyperbole, I do maintain that she's a better actress than most of the peripheral actors of any modern Star Trek. Deanna Troi? Wesley Crusher? Tasha Yar? Beverly Crusher? Geordi LaForge? Major Kira? Jadzia Dax, even (prophets forgive me). All of Enterprise?

My point is that in sci-fi, you learn to accept sub-par acting. And she's no Patrick Stewart. But she's never as bad as she could be. (Ali Larter, Milo Ventimiglia, I'm looking in your direction...)

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

>.>

I like Milo Ventimiglia.

But I probably just forgive him for the pretty.

I also happen to think that Terry Farrell did a great job. And not everyone's acting on Enterprise sucked! ;)

But TNG/VOY/DS9 had their fair share of good actors. Brilliant actors!

I don't think science fiction means sub-par acting any more than any other show, really.

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

I think the connection between sci-fi and acting quality is budget, honestly. More experienced actors cost more money. And most sci-fi shows, including old skool Who though I'm not sure about the budget of new Who, have low budgets.

There was good acting in DS9 - hello, Avery Brooks and Armin Shimmerman (love them!). And TNG had Riker and Picard, who, bless their hearts, had to work with some crap writing a lot of the time, but did their best.

So, yes, I'm prone to hyperbole. But Martha done good tonight. Really really good. Better than she has. So yay!

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

TNG also had Brent Spiner! And his three parter on Enterprise was fantastic. DS9 also had Rene Auberjonois. And several of the VOY actors were great, Kate Mulgrew in particular. I love my Star Trek actors. <3

Martha did do well. She's a brilliant Doctor companion, and I think part of Doctor Who's charm is it being a bit off. So the occasional shoddy acting isn't necessarily even bad.