Brand New Star Trek

So, I mentioned before that I'd try to get video of the kids singing the hello song. Here's a bit of that:



Today was a rough day. Lots of kids acting up, all day long. Even my good classes were being right shits today. The usual punishment of "stand on the wall, arms up, on one foot, with your eyes closed and looking like a right fool" wasn't working at all. I decided it was time for more drastic measures.

I pulled out the worst offender and stuck him on said wall. This time I had him follow me in a round of 'I'm a little teapot'. As they continued to act up, I continued to push the song. Eventually we arrived at the following:



Please note, I'll be sharing that with all the rest of their classmates in all grades, hopefully to their great embarrassment. Yep, I am an ass ;)

Anyway, not much else to report. We saw the new Star Trek. We both really enjoyed it. I'm not going to spoil anything, so no worries. I will take a couple moments to talk about continuity in a non-spoilery way. (Abe you might want to skip out just because I know you're sensitive to even the vaguest talk on things you haven't seen ;) ).

So, a while back there was a crazy Spider-man story. Peter had revealed his identity to the world. Eventually people came after him and Aunt May died (having been shot by a bullet meant for Peter). To rectify this, Peter and Mary Jane make a deal with the devil (aka Mephisto). He gets to erase their marriage from history and Aunt May is alive and no one knows Peter's identity. In one fell swoop, the writers undid over 20 years of Spider-man stories. They just didn't count any more. Fans were pissed, and rightly so.

The new Star Trek movie undoes 40+ years of continuity. It undoes everything except for the really bad Enterprise series. And you know what? It's completely fine. It's fine because the story didn't suck. It wasn't so contrived, stupid, and just plain out-of-character as the crap fed to the Spidey fans. Sure, they did away with the continuity, but at the same time they gave a dying beast of a franchise a shot of adrenaline right to the damned heart. I look forward to seeing the Star Trek beast get up and run around rather than continue to lie there slowly dying.

And that's it.

-Aaron