In a Corner of My Soul: Angel: Missing

Summary: Rewrite of season 1 with Giles as the Big Bad.
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( As Buffy pushed the library doors, swinging them open, she noticed that Giles didn't glance up from whatever dusty old book he'd gotten caught up in. It was nice not dealing with his snark first thing in the morning, but she'd meant to come in late, unlike most mornings when it just happened, and she'd meant for him to notice. How was she supposed to yell at him for riling up Willow with his big anti-Angel lecture if he couldn't even be bothered to look up from his book? )

Star Trek

snogged just posted that she's, for the first time, watching Star Trek ToS. I'm amused because I'm also in the middle of a ToS watch. Leslie and I have watched through The Gamesters of Triskelion and, okay, that wasn't the best episode but I, who have never been a Star Trek fan, am enjoying the series more than I'd expected to. I guess I'll have to rethink that not a fan thing.

Leslie got me interested in Star Trek through the reboot movies and through Star Trek Continues, which is creating epidoses to finish up the five year arc of the original series. These gave me the idea to hunt up ToS DVDs at the library so we could watch them together.

I personally enjoyed the reboot movies although, yes, the lack of focus on social issues did disappoint. I also can't help comparing reboot Uhura to the women of Babyon 5 or, now that I'm watching it, to ToS Uhura. For example, in the reboot, when Kirk's flying a ship through a tight space, Uhura screams. Aargh! I hate it when the woman is the one, the only one, who screams. In ToS, when Sulu, under the influence of something and not in his right mind, grabs her saying "I'll protect you, fair maiden.", Uhura gets him off of her with a fighting move and replies "Sorry, neither." Eee! Loved that!

One of the thing that suprised me about ToS is that we don't always see the core characters. Spock, Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty, yes, they're constants, but Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov aren't. I believe we didn't see Chekov until the second season and we have yet to see him and Sulu in the same episode. I think Uhura is mostly there but there were a couple of episodes with a blonde in her place.

And, yes, I do with they'd kept Number One. She seemed to have a tight hold on her emotions. I'm wondering if Spock might have been less coldly logical if she'd been kept on as a character.

Celebrate failure

Celebrate failure