Today's Thursday. I just realized - that means that tomorrow I'm going out to walk and have breakfast with Pheobe. :)
I read a pretty good Star Trek reboot fic, this morning, and I really liked the way the writer handled the characters. But there's still something that seems so off to me about them. I think my problem is that I'm of a generation halfway between the original series and the reboot. I don't quite emotionally resonate with either, but I'm closer to the old series because I grew up with it. There's a huge divide between the way I always saw Bones and the way he's been reinterpreted.
For one thing, he characterizes himself as 'an old country doctor' in the Original Series, and I always pictured that his father was a doctor and he grew up to it, went to medical school and had an established practice in a neighborhood with a few families as his patients. Then his marriage broke up and he sold his practice and joined Starfleet. I didn't think of him as being trained in medical stuff by Starfleet, I thought they just trained him in Starfleet regulations and such. But maybe it was just that writer who interpreted it that Starfleet was training him in medical stuff, because it doesn't seem likely to me that they'd be teaching him the ins and outs of all the species he might be treating in a few months when med school takes 8 years right now, even with the sci-fi outs of learning drugs and electrodes that dump stuff directly into your brain. And what was he doing before Starfleet if he wasn't a doctor? I started to make a comment to the author on that point, but I think the internets swallowed it.
But secondly, I'm beginning to think I'm a dinosaur in the way I understand emotions and interactions because I'm more and more confused by stories written by younger people. There's so many times I'm looking at the screen and cocking my head sidewise wondering why on earth this statement would follow that action, etc. I had less of that with this story than with some, actually.
Anyhow, must run, now. Crap. Had stuff I was going to do and didn't because I spent the first hour and a half reading that story. Not good, not good at all. But I've been avoiding fic reading so much, lately, I wanted an indulgence. *sigh*
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