21 September 2006

twin towers II

I'm not a fan of Donald Trump. I think the development he's doing in San Pedro is awful. I think the celebration of the ultra rich is bizarre.

But I do agree with him wholeheartedly on one point, the Twin Towers II concept.

The message of the current project seems to be "if you knock us down, we will go limping away". It should be "if you knock us down, we will get back up stronger than before, so there".

Having an antenna be the reason the building goes up higher than before? That's just lame! Who thinks that's a good idea? That has no vision, no strength. It is beneath contempt.

On a completely other topic, I'm excited to see the remakes of Star Trek: TOS. I know there are fans that will automatically hate the update of the special effects, but seriously, they were fine in their day and heralded things to come, but these days, some of the effects are so laughable that it distracts from the story. When I heard about Star Trek 2.0, I was hoping that this would be the remake. It isn't, I think there's an online chat that goes along with the show. After seeing the Deep Space Nine Tribble episode, it doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how much the show could be improved.

On to something completely different again, sure Stargate has been on for a really long time, and there is a spinoff to continue the storyline, but I'm pretty bummed that it isn't going to be renewed. I loved the addition of the Farscape castmembers to the show. I can't get enough of Vala. Maybe the powers that be will change their minds and give us one more season. We'll see.