jencat | trek squee

Major major plus - Star Trek didn't suck! In fact, practically everyone loved it (and when the snippy critic from the Daily Mail and the Guardian guy both give something five stars... well, it feels like the universe should be imploding or something).

I was going to hold out until the end of this week to watch it (had to wait for better Imax seats) but in the end the hype got the better of me.. to the point where I very nearly headed off to the midnight preview. On a work night... fortunately, sense eventually prevailed, thank god...!But, hey, it rocked. The pre-credit, let's change history, sequence... practically welling up, dammit. JJ's always been evil like that...

Didn't adore (for pretty obvious reasons) the insane approach to plotting at the end - ack, ack, ack, please don't give Kirk a ship before he's even graduated, it's patently insane. It was so obvious that nothing made that boy succeed so much as making him work for it, and like hell you'd give him a shiny new ship straight off the back... gah. That part didn't work...

Also, I'm guessing there's lots of stuff we didn't get to see - as it stands, it makes no sense casting Winona as MamaSpock only to show her in aging make-up in every scene. The trailer shot of her being young and pregnant was dropped so I'm guessing that also included a scene that built her character up a tad - as it is she's just 'oh i love you son!' and, like, falling off cliffs to her doom. Any chance of an extended dvd, I'm wondering..

Also, again - Uhuru/Spock.. Nope. Not working the way it was presented. Give me another two scenes of build-up maybe, and I'd totally be there (they were kinda cute in the teacher's pet scene) but I was choking on the out of character moments by the time they were saying goodbye on the transporter. It's made very clear that nothing's going on before the film starts - even more clear that he's,er, her teacher. And Spock possibly the most non-rule-breaking character in the entire verse... And we cut straight to being all over each other (kinda) with no real rationale. Shame, cos it's wasting character.

But I'm nit picking. It wasn't perfect, but it did rock.

And switching subjects entirely... heh, I'm officially Not Allowed to blog about work, that's been kinda a thing. But this week at work has been making me feel a little... sidelined, maybe?

And then watching the ep of ER that aired last week cracked me up because desk clerk extraordinaires Jerry and Frank were miffed about not being interviewed by a documentary crew in the ER, so decided to make their own film, and wound up saving someone's life... it was a total hoot because at least ER has desk clerks. (And yes, they are frickin' essential. And always get overlooked.). Holby, my ridiculously guilty pleasure crappy medical soap, exists in a world without admin support, and it winds me up just a tad because, honestly, walk through any medical facility anywhere and most of the people you see will be non-clinical. It's just how it is.

Oh, Holby is ridiculous for lot of other reasons (operating on the consultant's dog secretly in the basement was a classic, or the fact that at least half the characters have jailbird junky relatives who pop up twice a year to compromise their careers) but it's the admin thing that bugs me the most. There are no ward clerks on their wards; none of the surgeons have PAs and the one concession to higher management is the Head of HR, who attends every meeting in existence. She, also, doesn't seem to have a PA.. I mean.. gah! Try talking to anyone medical in a hospital and odds are you'll be going through the admin staff cos that's what we're there for. What's even funnier is that they used to have a character who was someone's PA (Connie's?) but she was a former nurse who then promptly went right back to being a nurse again..! Different skill sets, is all I'm saying.

I did have to accept a long time ago that this job pretty much meant getting zero respect for my degree, or any other experience I had. Outlook and fixing rogue emails are where da respekt is at, don'tcha know. It's been five years now, on and off, and I've carved out a slightly uncomfortable niche mainly by dint of the fact I've been there longer than most and have therefore seen what bits of the job are more likely to cause nervous breakdowns (I wish I was joking. I really do. We get a lot of those...). And then I dug my heels in until I got the job how I felt it would work best.. it doesn't always work out, but I'm not climbing the walls just yet. Ahem.