To get back on topic.
I was befriended by a purported "Trek" fan who, again, purportedly had affection for "TOS" Trek. He was high energy, pretty clever, well read, a respectable thespian, severely overweight, ugly, a much better SFB player than me, but, most importantly of all, he failed to understand the true mainline themes coursing through that 1960's television show.
He was very much into the drama, the emotional spectacle and so forth. He had action figures, models, Trek-this, Trek-that literally littered all over his house. But for all his alleged fandomness, and his love of mimicking various things Trek, he failed to grasp a lot of the full fledged themes and allegories of those stories.
Not to be too high-faulting' about it, but imagine reading Kane and Able and really getting into the drama between the two brothers, but completely missing the message of the story. Or cracking open a Shakespeare play, say Hamlet, and falling in love with the emotional drama, but completely ignoring the whole "ghost seeking revenge through his son" motif, or not even getting that at all.
I think there's a lot of puffery and emotional fluff and added emotional ⌧ to the new stories than there ever is any substance.... ahhh... where am I going with this... Jesus, sorry folks, I've been up at 4AM all this week and last week, and have been going to bed at 10PM, so I'm a bit off, tired, and will finish this up later on tomorrow
Gnight.
*EDIT; a few hours of sleep later...*
There's a lot of good reading lit out there on the market, but the main themes coursing through those stories are not the stories that I and my parents grew up with. To get back to "Hamlet", it's more than just a simple revenge play, it's a play about one man's version of right and wrong verse everyone else's, and since it is a tragedy there's the whole "violence begets violence" intent melding with the grapple between right and wrong.
To end this tirade, "they just don't make 'em like they used to". Trek included.
And with that, I think I'll sign off on this subject. Thanks for reading.
I was befriended by a purported "Trek" fan who, again, purportedly had affection for "TOS" Trek. He was high energy, pretty clever, well read, a respectable thespian, severely overweight, ugly, a much better SFB player than me, but, most importantly of all, he failed to understand the true mainline themes coursing through that 1960's television show.
He was very much into the drama, the emotional spectacle and so forth. He had action figures, models, Trek-this, Trek-that literally littered all over his house. But for all his alleged fandomness, and his love of mimicking various things Trek, he failed to grasp a lot of the full fledged themes and allegories of those stories.
Not to be too high-faulting' about it, but imagine reading Kane and Able and really getting into the drama between the two brothers, but completely missing the message of the story. Or cracking open a Shakespeare play, say Hamlet, and falling in love with the emotional drama, but completely ignoring the whole "ghost seeking revenge through his son" motif, or not even getting that at all.
I think there's a lot of puffery and emotional fluff and added emotional ⌧ to the new stories than there ever is any substance.... ahhh... where am I going with this... Jesus, sorry folks, I've been up at 4AM all this week and last week, and have been going to bed at 10PM, so I'm a bit off, tired, and will finish this up later on tomorrow
Gnight.
*EDIT; a few hours of sleep later...*
There's a lot of good reading lit out there on the market, but the main themes coursing through those stories are not the stories that I and my parents grew up with. To get back to "Hamlet", it's more than just a simple revenge play, it's a play about one man's version of right and wrong verse everyone else's, and since it is a tragedy there's the whole "violence begets violence" intent melding with the grapple between right and wrong.
To end this tirade, "they just don't make 'em like they used to". Trek included.
And with that, I think I'll sign off on this subject. Thanks for reading.
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