Eccentric Green Aliens
We'll probably leave in what...7 and a half hours? It's always so strange how in leading up to a trip things are all calm--and often somewhat boring--and then bam! your whole world explodes. Within say 12 hours you've gone from watching a Star Trek film to sitting in a wild beer-celebrating restaurant in Melbourne. Okay, so about the beer thing I don't understand entirely, but there is some beer celebrating thing happening down south on Friday night. Just wonder how many interesting stories I can scrounge out of that night *wriggles eyebrows*
About Star Trek. I thought sci-fi was the one genre that would always make me gag. I practically avoid it as much as my Dad avoids cartoon movies (the ones that are suppose to be dramatic that is). Like sci-fi just doesn't appeal to me. But then perhaps that is because most of the movies made in that genre depend on the weirdness of their wack'o "beings" to excite their audience. I'm afraid my appreciation for movies is found almost solely in character development and twisted story plots. Give me a masked alien oozing green slime and I'll either throw up or yawn.
Something in Star Trek worked for me, though (in the later films anyway. I fell asleep in the first one, and was supposedly snoring... *roll*). I think perhaps it was because they reinvented concepts of earth and humans and simply put them into a different environment. A lot like the LOTR, I suppose. I'm not a fantasy fan for that matter either. But I really love the LOTR films--all of the parts excluding the ugly monsters, that is :P In a way, it's a lot like just normal characters in books. One author once said that you can't just put eccentricies into your character and expect your audience to accept them as a "real" person. The eccentricites should only be used as say "decoration". An added bonus that will perhaps sell your book, but in no way will work if you don't first have a good base. Fantasy and sci-fi movies are no different. A green alien won't tug at a viewer's emotions unless it has complex emotions of it's own--but wait, there are no green aliens in Star Trek. Drats, I'm going to have to think of a better example...
Anyhow, as I was saying--before I went into my lengthy ramble on green aliens--I shall be off soon. Away and gone...*imagines little Enterprise zooming off in warp speed* I don't expect I shall have any chance at a computer until at least Saturday, but until then, mourn my loss and pray that the beer celebrators do something weird and wack'o so that I shall have some eccentricies to add to my stories ;)
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