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Fox Passes on AbFab remake.
May. 15th, 2009 04:04 pmThis is the best news of the day: Fox passes on AbFab remake (h/t to Nikki Finke)
...and there was much rejoicing!
...and there was much rejoicing!
May. 15th, 2009
Airplane/Home Reading
May. 15th, 2009 09:45 pmOK, so I finally sat myself down tonight to finish Crucible: Kirk: The Star to Every Wandering. I read about half of it on the flight from Atlanta to Salt Lake last Saturday, and tonight was the first chance I've had to crack it open again & finish.
I liked this one quite a bit better than the preceding volume in the Crucible trilogy -- which I had a hard time really believing (It took Spock down a very strange path, somewhere I really can't envision the character ever going.) I didn't like it as much as the first volume in the trilogy -- Crucible: McCoy just might be the best TOS novel ever written -- but it's a great read.
Crucible: Kirk is a fast-paced action romp, carefully tied into the two preceding volumes -- and into Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever, from Star Trek's first season in 1967. George manages to give Kirk one final chance to save the universe following his death in Star Trek: Generations (his real death, on Soran's bridge, not his disappearance into the Nexus.) And it works beautifully
In the Crucible trilogy, writer David R. George III has managed to weave three stories that touch upon every episode of the original seasons of Star Trek; the 22 animated episodes, and all 7 films featuring the original crew. WITHOUT seeming like an endless parade of fanwankery.
All three books have a heavy element of romance -- of loves found, lost, and perhaps found again. The romantic aspects, with the exception of the unlikelihood of some developments in Crucible: Spock, were uniformly well handled. I would like to see more books in this vein.
I highly recommend this books. I think any fan disappointed by the new movie will enjoy them immensely.
I liked this one quite a bit better than the preceding volume in the Crucible trilogy -- which I had a hard time really believing (It took Spock down a very strange path, somewhere I really can't envision the character ever going.) I didn't like it as much as the first volume in the trilogy -- Crucible: McCoy just might be the best TOS novel ever written -- but it's a great read.
Crucible: Kirk is a fast-paced action romp, carefully tied into the two preceding volumes -- and into Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever, from Star Trek's first season in 1967. George manages to give Kirk one final chance to save the universe following his death in Star Trek: Generations (his real death, on Soran's bridge, not his disappearance into the Nexus.) And it works beautifully
In the Crucible trilogy, writer David R. George III has managed to weave three stories that touch upon every episode of the original seasons of Star Trek; the 22 animated episodes, and all 7 films featuring the original crew. WITHOUT seeming like an endless parade of fanwankery.
All three books have a heavy element of romance -- of loves found, lost, and perhaps found again. The romantic aspects, with the exception of the unlikelihood of some developments in Crucible: Spock, were uniformly well handled. I would like to see more books in this vein.
I highly recommend this books. I think any fan disappointed by the new movie will enjoy them immensely.