Prison security: easier to get through than airport security

[the_deep_magic]

Visited prison today, and it was... not much to write home about.  It was a minimum-security, faith-based prison (the class was Faith-Based Programs in Criminal Justice), and we didn't actually talk to any of the inmates, mostly just the chaplain and a few guards.  Still, we had to wait quite a while to be cleared to go in (even though we weren't searched or even put through a metal detector) and one of my classmates kept freaking out.  She got better once we went inside, though we were all issued clip-on panic buttons, and when it was her turn to go in, she said, "Can I have one of those 'so I don't die' thingies?"

The worst part was that I'd eaten lunch at 11:30 and we left for the prison at 3 and didn't get back until around 8:30 -- and I didn't think to bring a snack (not that they would have let me bring it in, but we didn't actually go inside until around 5).  So all of us were starving, and all I kept thinking about was the stupid turducken and how I could have been eating it instead of listening to that girl babble nervously about razor wire and how do you think they get it up there, does someone install it by hand, what kind of gloves do they have to wear?

All we talked about on the way back was food.

Ummm, so I don't know if I really have anything original to say about the trailer, other than it's not Khan (JJ definitely wouldn't have flat-out copied the hands-on-the-glass shot).  And for some reason, I don't think it's Gary Mitchell, either.  I can't say why, and I haven't read the comics so I can't speak to that, but I recently watched "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and... I just don't think it's Gary Mitchell.  I think it's an original character.  My predictions are nearly always wrong, but there you have it.

The only thing I'm absolutely sure of?  That is Kirk's hand, and he's the one on the inside of the glass.  The ending narration plus the fact that, again, it's got to be an homage rather than a copy.  I don't know how they'd kill off Kirk, especially if we're not sure there's going to be a third movie (are we sure?), but he's at least going to be in a situation where he thinks he's sacrificing his life for the crew.

Are they really going to destroy San Francisco again?  It's like the Tokyo of nu!Trek.

I am excited.  I'm trying to squee harder, but I'm just too exhausted right now.  Let me sleep for about three days straight and I'll be doing cartwheels, okay?  Also, I'm really not freaking out about how long it is until May, because I'm almost certainly going to have to decide by then whether I want to take the thesis option for my degree and... yeah, that day is going to get here really fucking soon.

Query: is the 9-minute preview only going to be before the IMAX version of The Hobbit?

ETA: Oh oh oh, I forgot to say, I went to see Rise of the Guardians, because Chris Pine's voice.  Hnnnnnnngh.  Hugh Jackman didn't hurt either.  The story was a bit thin, but the animation was lovely and also Chris Pine's voice.  All I want for Christmas is for him to leave dirty messages on my voice mail.  That's really not too much to ask, is it?

Comments

[greenteaduck.livejournal.com]

Woooow your classmate sounds fun to go to a prison with jk :P
I hope you got some food in your belly!!<3

It's like the Tokyo of nu!Trek. lolol
Yup only before IMAX so far as I know. But the regular theatres get a trailer at least... No idea if it's the teaser one they released today tho~

[the-deep-magic.livejournal.com]

I gorged on tacos when I got home. It was glorious.

Damn. Gonna have to trek (hurrr) all the way across town and pay for an IMAX ticket. Not a huge hardship, since I'm stoked for The Hobbit, but still.

[aliassmith.livejournal.com]

After obsessive (and I mean obsessive) rewatching all I have is that there are Klingons. Probably.

You win this round, Abrams.

[the-deep-magic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at this point I'm willing to believe he's just trolling us with EVERYTHING and the movie is two hours of Sulu chasing down those unicorn dogs, pursued by Benedict Cumberbatch, Evil Dogcatcher.


...I would be strangely okay with that.

[the-deep-magic.livejournal.com]

I heard mention that one of the writers said to "pay attention to the comics," whatever that means. The Gary Mitchell storyline was done in the comics, though it also ended with Gary dying, so people are speculating that's the "revenge" aspect.

One screenshot seems to show BC in a Starfleet uniform, so maybe that "memorial service" thing is supposed to be for him, only he's not really dead but blames Kirk for stranding him somewhere? IDK.

(Faith-based prisons are rare outside of Florida and Texas, and I hadn't even known about them until I took this course. Anyway, inmates who want to can ask to be transferred to one of these prisons where they are required to go to programming like GED classes, anger management, financial and parenting skills classes, one-on-one mentoring, etc. run by church groups, largely by volunteers. The problem is that, because of budget cuts and "getting tough on crime," none of those things are offered in regular prisons anymore. Theoretically, the programming lowers the recidivism rate drastically, though it's hard to measure because prisoners self-select and there's no control group... And I could go on and on, as I've just had a whole semester of it.)

[hilsongirl.livejournal.com]

i think their contracts include a third movie if they get the green light from the studio
so it's not a sure thing, it really depends on how well Into darkness does

[the-deep-magic.livejournal.com]

Then JJ better not kill (or fake-kill) anyone off...