Life is a Cabaret

Yay, finally ready to post this! Or at least, the first part of this. It's been split up into three parts due to length constraints, and the next two parts will be posted when I finish editing them a final time.

Introduction

All right, there are plenty of movie analyses out there, but not all of them have covered all the things I want to talk about, and I finally got inspired to get off my ass and write all of this down. The following reviews are my personal thoughts about the first seven Star Trek movies, the ones involving The Original Series characters. I both ramble and analyze my thoughts a lot, but as I hope the rambling and analysis shows, I have thought quite a bit about this stuff; however, they're still my opinions and I realize other people might disagree -- if you do, please just be polite.

Because this essay is 25,000+ words long, I've split it into three posts. The first post covers the introduction, The Motion Picture, and The Wrath of Khan. The second post covers The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home. The third post covers The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country, and Generations.

Also note that these reviews are heavily discussing Kirk/Spock (though not entirely), so if that's not your cup of tea and you still want to read, be warned, because I do look at a lot of things through a Kirk/Spock lens. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy!

( Continued )

Part Two

Going home for Thanksgiving tomorrow, but wanted to post this before I left. Thanks to tinitinytina for looking at it and making sure it makes sense and all.

Ah, the dreaded dialogue formatting—something that many people get right, but many more get wrong. Where do you use a comma and where a period? What should be capitalized and what shouldn’t? And why? Dialogue formatting isn’t easy to get right, and it’s easy to forget the rules, especially when published authors do it too. But, just as in the rest of the rules of grammar, dialogue formatting has its own reasons for what’s correct and what’s not, and hopefully once you know why commas go here and periods go there, and this is capitalized and that isn’t, you can get it correct when you write it. Note that all of my examples are off the top of my head.

( The tutorial, with examples using HP characters )

Connections. That’s what grammar is—how sentences and parts of sentences are connected to each other, how they’re related to each other. And just like a family tree, those relationships can be pretty complicated and easy to confuse, but once you understand exactly how one part of a sentence relates to another, it’s much easier to remember. I hope that I helped with that understanding, though if you have further questions, don’t hesitate to ask, and I will explain to the best of my ability.