Saturday Night’s All Right…
…For sitting around totally wasting time! No, not for fighting. What? You were expecting me to say “fighting?” My, aren’t you strange.
A little while ago, Apple bought me an early Valentine’s Day / birthday present: the latest album from J-pop group Round Table, featuring the vocal talents of Nino. Entitled “April,” the album contains “12 cute tracks” of cheery, happy music that really defies being shunted into any one particular genre. This is the same group that recorded the ultra-catchy main title theme for Chobits, and that song is represented both in its original form and in a “New Step Mix” that’s really cool. I hear that I’ll be getting some more musical enjoyment, this time from Thailand, before the month is over, so I’m looking forward to that. Thanks Apple!
As I write this, my primary server is town. I call it “primary” because it hosts my…uh, former web domain, as well as my email accounts. It’s been down for an hour and twenty minutes, ostensibly due to a failed network card. How it could take a data center that long to switch out a network card boggles my mind, so maybe it’s something more than that. Of course, this affects my Pooch’s website and email too. If you’re reading this, Pooch, hopefully these guys will get their shizz straightened out pretty soon.
Enterprise Cancelled
“Star Trek: Enterprise…has been cancelled.” Okay, you were supposed to be hearing the voice of the Wildfire central computer from The Andromeda Strain as you read that line. If you didn’t, your nerd index is insufficient to continue reading this site, so…oh, who am I kidding.
Yes, today the news hit the airwaves—even as far away as England—that the fifth series in the almost forty-year-old Star Trek franchise has been axed. In a joint statement from UPN and Paramount announcing the cancellation, Enterprise’s final episode was said to be scheduled for May 13th. UPN president Les Moonves, who in the past has publicly voiced his lack of support for the entire Trek franchise, was instrumental in making the decision. The fact that Paramount was co-author of the release indicates that the show will not be shopped around in syndication to other networks, and that yes, it—and Trek as a whole—really is gone for good.
As I told my friend Pooch earlier today, if I had recieved this news a year ago—during Enterprise’s third season—I would have been upset. I thought the third season took the show in a new, improved direction. But in season four, now that the banality has returned in full force—as well as a whole screwload of continuity problems and rapings of the classic TOS canon—I realize that what season three actually did was not fix Enterprise’s many problems, but cover them up with a decent over-arching story, plenty of action and a lot of anger and violence. Underneath, it was still the same cast of characters who have basically zero interaction with each other and are all about as likable as pet rocks.
