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netgirl_y2k...here are two awesome things I watched this weekend.
1) Scotland's victory over England in the Six Nations. It was the first time we've beaten the auld enemy away from Edinburgh since the year that I was born, and I am no longer a woman in the first flush of youth. I try never to underestimate the Scottish ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, so there I was, at seventy nine minutes and thirty seconds, frowning and with my arms crossed, going: England are going to snatch this, I know it. But we won! And I was, to use the local parlance, up to high doh.
I also found myself wishing that I was at the game, or at least watching it in a rammed pub, and for somebody who has taken to life as a friendless shut-in somewhat too comfortably that was pretty reassuring.
2) I hadn't sought out Lower Decks when it first aired, thinking that it was going to be a knock-off Futurama, that it was going to be laughing at Star Trek rather than with it. But no! It's funny - in places it's seriously bloody funny - but it's good natured, and big hearted, and trek-y. And over the course of this weekend it became easily my favourite of the new generation of Star Trek shows. Also I frickin' love that I'm living through a new generation of Trek!
1) Scotland's victory over England in the Six Nations. It was the first time we've beaten the auld enemy away from Edinburgh since the year that I was born, and I am no longer a woman in the first flush of youth. I try never to underestimate the Scottish ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, so there I was, at seventy nine minutes and thirty seconds, frowning and with my arms crossed, going: England are going to snatch this, I know it. But we won! And I was, to use the local parlance, up to high doh.
I also found myself wishing that I was at the game, or at least watching it in a rammed pub, and for somebody who has taken to life as a friendless shut-in somewhat too comfortably that was pretty reassuring.
2) I hadn't sought out Lower Decks when it first aired, thinking that it was going to be a knock-off Futurama, that it was going to be laughing at Star Trek rather than with it. But no! It's funny - in places it's seriously bloody funny - but it's good natured, and big hearted, and trek-y. And over the course of this weekend it became easily my favourite of the new generation of Star Trek shows. Also I frickin' love that I'm living through a new generation of Trek!
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Date: 2021-02-08 02:20 am (UTC)2. Isn't it good? I still need to finish it.
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Date: 2021-02-08 03:44 pm (UTC)2. It made me so happy! I hope they do more.
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Date: 2021-02-08 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-09 03:23 am (UTC)