Sorry for the delay in the new Dr Who comic everyone. Me and my partner haven’t been terribly well these last two weeks, and as we all know it’s not very easy to draw comics while sniffling, suffering headaches, and holding back a torrent from a runny nose. Fortunately though we’re starting to feel a little better, so hopefully I can get back to drawing soon and it shouldn’t take me much longer to get it done.

It’ll be good, because when I’m unwell I tend to just play games for hours. The problem is that playing games can only distract me for so long, before I have to move on. So, in a desperate effort to escape feeling crap, and despite my earlier doubts about it, we decided to give the new Star Trek movie a shot and went to see it.

In a few words it was absolutely fantastic, only if you were able to excuse the needlessly silly plotline. It’s a given that I’d agree with the other fans and say the choice of actors was brilliant, and that the brand-new look they’ve given the starships was also good, because for the first time ever in Star Trek they actually looked huge. So would I say that the movie gets a perfect 10 on its review? – hardly.

This could be considered nitpicking, but my problem was with the bullshit ‘Red Matter’ element. As a fan I can forgive the fact that it couldn’t really exist because, afterall this is science ficton. But the thing here is that I’m a story writer too, and I maintain the opinion you shouldn’t needlessly create something unscientific where something perfectly reasonable would do just fine in the same storyline. I mean sure, a WHOLE planet getting crunched in a black-hole looks very spectacular, and that might be very good for the box-office, but there was no reason why it couldn’t have just been a large asteroid, or even several, thrown at Vulcan instead – it was a mining vessel afterall, and it certianly would have been just as catastrophic. 

That might sound like a bit of a winge, but I was hoping that would finally change things and remove the ‘tasty cheese’ smell that every Star Trek series and movie has shared. Given that warp drive is in fact theoretically possible, and given that they spent such a huge amount of time making the scenes look super-real, and given that they spent a huge effort making the actors look and act uncannily like their older counterparts, I was hoping this would extend into the standard Star Trek storyline. Unfortunatly as it seems this has been neglected yet again, it’s a real pity because they could have done something amazing here. But a truely earth-shattering (no pun intended) storyline has once again been missed, in perference of more drab nonsense.

Aside from that it was great – nice job Mr Abrams.

Once again I find myself cleaning out more of my stuff, and it shocks me to find that I have gathered so much useless junk over the years, but in this pile of odds and bobs I found a rather pleasant surprise a box of old games from my first two years of high school, needless to say I quickly abandoned my grand ideas to feverishly install them on my PC.

A few days of nostalgia and sleep deprivation later and I was a very content gamer to be playing through some of my favourite old games,  Afterwards I was compelled to track down one game that I had owned but could not find in the cleanout a copy of Age of Mythology and The Titans expansion. There is something very few people know about me (and now more will know I guess) but the reason I play very few RTS is I get very addicted very quickly and so surely enough for the last week I have been playing it only venturing out for work and showers, and this is not good.

It has been a nice change though from my time (life) consuming addiction to World of Warcraft >_< so I’ll enjoy this while I still can, because in the end it is very hard to ignore the things you have to fork out money for. So,  the moral of today’s rant look back and try those games you enjoyed when you were younger and dumber (or smarter like me) you might be taken by surprise and really have fun.