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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1h

I used to listen to radioplays. I remember one that was like “Then the Devil started to dance”. Maybe it was a version of Faust. I’ll never find it again, it exists only in my memory like Jack to Rose.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1h

Hey, I made a direct political observation.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1h

As much as I dislike the LNP I don’t relish a one party state consisting of the ALP.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 20h

I agree that Dr McCoy was incompetent in Star Trek VI. He knows Vulcan anatomy, why doesn’t he know Klingon?

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 21h

Being a Klingon is the one thing Kirk hasn’t done in Star Trek.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 21h

I know William Shatner is 94 but I want to see him cameo in Star Trek movie in full Klingon make up. I want him to have to sit there while they apply it.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 22h

Other than that it’s the best one? It’s hard to explain. It’s mostly excellent with a couple of really bad choices. Star Trek V had some high points surrounded by general garbage but not the offensive choices of Star Trek VI.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 22h

Star Trek VI has gone down in my esteem over the years for one reason only: Kirk being viciously racist is out of character and it’s there only so that he can see the light later on. He wasn’t like this at the end of the last movie. I also don’t like that they made Brock Peters the hawkish one.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

Assuming good faith can be a sign of privilege; assuming bad faith can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I have been burned too many times but I am digging deep now to believe in good faith.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

At the same time I am conscious that the law is often used as an instrument of repression or injustice.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

The law is inextricably linked with “reason” and although this can disguise a myriad of motives, as someone whose experienced periods of unreason, I have a strong investment in the concept of reason.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

There’s something in the introduction to my copy of the Brothers Karamazov from Dostoyevsky’s notebooks: “So it is not as a boy, then, that I believe in Christ and confess Him, but through the great crucible of doubt has my hosannah passed…” That’s how I feel about the law.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been going through a certain amount of torment with my mental health with a lot of anxiety and rumination (in high enough doses these two things add up to paranoia). Strangely I have found a renewed belief in the law of all things. Not as it exists at any one time but as a concept.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

Spielberg stole the impact tremors from Jurassic Park from Sulu’s teacup in Star Trek VI. It’s bed time what I am saying is not true.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

I could do without row row row your boat.

Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

Kirk’s half-hearted Klingon salute as they all reconcile with the Klingons doesn’t quite gel with his bitterness in the next one. He seems resigned but accepting. Not like “let them die”.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

Spock saying “Damn you sir, you will try” is peak Spock. Also I was wrong the Klingon hostage does pay off. David Warner’s presence doesn’t but there is a reason for that whole plot thing.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

It’s never explained who the being at the end is, just like it’s never explained where the probe in the previous movie comes from. This good, gives you something to wonder about.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

There’s nothing wrong with the plot? One thing leads to another, everything set up pays off (except the three hostages from Nimbus III). It’s not clear why it doesn’t hit.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

It also has an interesting and unique antagonist in Sybok. It’s a complicated one. I know why people think it’s bad but it’s more that it’s uneven. I can relate to it’s ups and downs as someone with bipolar. I am Star Trek V.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

Star Trek V has the best opening scene in a Star Trek movie. It has the best scene in a Star Trek movie (“I need my pain”) and much of what is left is good campy fun on a similar level to Star Trek IV. There’s also a lot of garbage like Kirk fighting the cat woman and Uhura’s moonlight dance.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

The law really isn’t right sometimes.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 1d

Read Giovanni’s Room for the first time since I was 23. A beautiful book. Been thinking about how homosexuality was criminalised in Australia into my teens. It’s not a remote far off time.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think his performances have been bad but if he disappeared from the face of the earth I would never think about him again.

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Solomon Wakeling @solomonwakeling.bsky.social · 2d

The trailer made it look awesome when I saw One Battle After Another.

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