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[readingredhead]

Today, I have slept in, talked with my sister about the new Star Trek movie in great detail, discovered that there are two different projects going on right now to try to make Paradise Lost into a movie (Milton would die if he weren't dead already), watched an old Star Trek episode while eating breakfast and folding laundry, e-mailed Queen Mary's study abroad people about housing information, looked up books about Milton, and sidetracked my attempt at studying for my Romantics final by instead looking up course descriptions for graduate English classes at Berkeley.

Finals? What finals? You mean it's not already summer?

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[octavius-x.livejournal.com]

LOL CANDACE THERE IS NO WAY I'M GOING TO FINISH DOING MY ROUGH DRAFT TODAY. I think I'll just come to you and we can brainstorm essay things and outline, and I'll do my reading under your beady eye.

I think I'm going to write on the one she proposed, comparing the three endings of Samson, PL, and PR. But I am open to suggestion :3

Also, watch Star Trek: Next Gen! It's the best one!

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

That's fine, come over whenever you want, I'm just going to be doing work on Milton and related things anyway -- I am not going anywhere!

I would watch TNG if I had it readily available to me! But there is a part of me that has *always* wanted to watch the original series, in part as a historical document! And since the entirety of the original series is available online from CBS, things have been made easier. (Also...I am one of those annoying people who wants to read/watch everything IN ORDER.)

[eristocracy.livejournal.com]

Don't listen to anyone who says the original series isn't good, or that there are only a few good stories. All the ones I have seen so far -- even the Scooby Doo mystery styled ones -- are good for what they are, and they more than make up for their faults with their illuminations of future and Vulcan philosophy and culture.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

I am definitely going with the "good for what they are" mentality. I'm still chugging through the original series at the rate of about 1 ep per day (much better than studying) and am finding them quite entertaining! Although some are better as background noise and others deserved to be watched with eyes glued to screen. :) I think I mostly keep watching for Spock's sake.

[eristocracy.livejournal.com]

Right. I started watching over the summer, and I watch in spurts. Sometimes I need to see one every day for a couple weeks, sometimes it is weeks between episodes. Yes, Spock is my hero, which is why I'm so upset that they changed his character so radically in the new movie.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

Some of the Spock stuff in the new movie seemed terribly out-of-character to me...and this was just about internal continuity within the movie, since I'd never seen anything Star Trek before seeing that movie! But other moments were pretty awesome, including basically any time he was kicking Kirk's ass. Emphatically deserved, ridiculously amusing.