In support of a friend's Cause, and because it's something I believe in, too:
Dear Friends:
Thanks for joining our FB Group! As many of you know, we have received a $2500 grant which will pay $1 for each new person who joins this group before June 1. In the last 72 hours 208 people have joined!
We have 23 days to recruit 2292 more supporters in order to receive the full $2500. If everyone receiving this email recruits 3 friends to join over the weekend we will be half way there. Each person who joins raises money and awareness for the campaign to Restore Hetch Hetchy.
BAY AREA RESIDENTS: We need your help planning our summer outreach efforts in San Francisco. Please email me if you can join us for a volunteer leadership meeting on May 18th and/or our larger organizing meeting on June 6. Or call our office at 415-956-0401. WE NEED YOU TO GET INVOLVED!
Max Szabo
Field Organizer
max@hetchhetchy.org
Restore Hetch Hetchyx
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Plenty of holes. None of them mattered to me. I confess to not seeing all the movies- they disappointed me early, and I just let them go by.
I haven't rewatched all of TOS, either. I'm old enough to have seen them with my parents, week to week- my mother loved how subversive they were, my dad enjoyed the nods to actual science as much as he got a kick out of the nods to his favorite sci-fi authors, themes, and jokes. I was intrigued by the characters, by their development and by their relationships, but all too soon had to go off and be a grown-up myself, and just haven't had time to dive back in. Did spend some time with TNG, but more for the voices than the shows themselves- it was when I was laid low with a major depression, and would have it on in the background for companionship.
So, confessing to spotty knowledge and inexact fandom (or the other way around, whatever *F*): I loved this movie.
I could always, always always have had more of McCoy. Even more now, and who knows, I may just have to write him at some point to hear more of his story, but oh, I am a happy happy person with Bones. Kirk was good, Spock was damn fine, I liked this Sulu and got a kick out of this Scotty, and I feel Uhura is wronged again, always, but has a better chance this time at personhood so I'm appreciative of what Zoe Saldana brought.
But what I enjoy most, as a story-teller, is that I feel free to bring my own story to the movie. There are parts I reject as not matching my experience of Star Trek- and I feel like that's ok, that's allowed for, and I like that. There are technical things that annoy me, and other things that delight me, and I'll see it again in theatre and probably, at some point, end up owning it (I want the commentaries on the DVD to be good, damnit!).
So I'm gonna give it two thumbs up, a whole basketfull of fresh tomatoes, and a big smile- and hope for more McCoy in the next one. Damnit, Jim, I'm a fangirl, not a critic, and I want more McCoy. *nods*
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