#jennifer hui

[heartlandians]

Behind the scenes of Heartland - 17x10 - Just the Beginning Photo by: Maxim Roy

[booasaur]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - 1x05

[confessions-heartland]

"I feel like the show has lost its "grit" since about season 14. There was so much grit in the first 14 seasons; hard truths about ranching, rodeo, people engaged in serious illegal stuff. And a lot of really strong character moments, and well-written dialogue. Amy's grief over Ty was amazingly done. But these past seasons & especially season 17 feels it has lost true emotional depth, proper "grit", and also writing that understands & respects its characters. Have the showrunners gotten old & forgotten how young people talk? Have they forgotten that the best emotional moments are not necessarily overly demonstrative & with very pointed, forced dialogue? Having rewatched from season 1, I feel extremely coddled by S17 and honestly feel like quitting given the nosedive in writing quality. Which is really sad because Heartland had been going amazingly strong all these years. I feel like the only way to save the show now would be to stop the current story, and start fresh with aged up Lyndy and maybe grandma!Amy, and just tell a totally new story with new characters."

[tuppencetrinkets]

Season 1 Star Trek Strange New Worlds, sorted caps.

Melissa Navia - Erica Ortegas - #12,500

Anson Mount - Christopher Pike - #38,000

Ethan Peck - Spock - #26,000

Jess Bush - Christine Chapel - #8,700

Christina Chong - La’an Noonien-Singh - #16,000

Rebecca Romijn - Una Chin-Riley - #16,000

Celia Rose Gooding - Nyota Uhurua - #8,800

Babs Olusanmokun - M’Benga - #5,800

Andre Dae Kim - Kyle - #600

Gia Sandhu - T’Pring - #5,900

Dan Jeannotte - Samuel Kirk - #1,700

Jennifer Hui - Christina - #2,100

Rong Fu - Jenna Mitchell - #380

Sage Arrindell - Rukiya - #1,800

Adrian Holmes - Robert April - #1,100

Melanie Scrofano - Batel - #740

Paul Wesley - James T. Kirk - #2,700

Jesse James Keitel - Aspen - #5,400

Lindy Booth - Alora - #3,500

Ian Ho - First Servant - #1,200

Huse Madhavnji - Gamal - #2,000

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[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season one 2022

[damnredthing]

Hijinks ramblings – SNW S1E05

This post – naturally – contains spoilers. If you haven’t seen the episode yet and do not want to read spoilers, please do not read any further.

This is not an episode review but rather just a bunch of ramblings which I’ve tried to at least sort a little bit into categories.

Season 1 – Episode 5 – Spock Amok

This was more of a funny, goofy episode with some character development built in. And of course we do have to discuss THE green wrap uniform. But one at a time.

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Pike’s inner demons - continued

Erm nope. Nada. Nothing at all in this episode, not even hinted. So lets just move on with the next topic.

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Correction to my last rambling

Because I’m stupid and scatterbrained, I mixed up Lt. Mitchell with Ensign Christina. But the message stays the same, for both actually! I hope we keep both in SNW for a long time and we’ll see more of both! Especially Ensign Christina is so cute, I want to cuddle her!

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T’Pring and Spock

I do love, love, love T’Pring being played by Gia Sandhu. Not only is T’Pring very beautiful, she’s also extremely well characterized. In TOS T’Pring wasn’t very likeable, because she flat out requested kal-if-fee on Spock who by then was already one of THE most liked characters. Of course we’d be biased by the time T’Pring was trying to hook up with a new partner.

But SNW now allows us to learn what’s leading to that point. And we learn what T’Pring’s desires are. I hope Spirk shippers don’t lynch me for saying this (btw, just because Spock is in a relationship now doesn’t mean all is written in stone) but, even though the relationship was arranged (as it usually happens on Vulcan), Spock’s and T’Pring’s love for each other is true, yet conflicted. The little nuances of affection and love we see from T’Pring (who is a full Vulcan mind you!), hidden within stoic logic, are a treat and joy to watch. And when both swapped bodies, it was a lot of fun to watch both actors pulling off the opposite traits so well.

For comedic reasons, I wish they had kept their secret towards Pike a little longer. IMO it would have been funnier if Pike only found out by himself while the diplomatic talk with the R’Ongovians was already ongoing. But on the other hand, Pike seems to know both well enough that he most likely would have found out way before the meeting anyways. The writers would have to be super careful not to turn it into a farce, so maybe revealing it as early as they did was the best way, as it was believable.

Pike’s reaction was super cool though. It was kind of oh, another day on the Enterprise, another of the usual problems. Today is body swap Tuesday. Haha! Okay, let’s get this done anyways. And I also love how he’s totally unabashed when Spock calls him Chris (before he knew it was actually T'Pring).

(Dimple alert!)

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Pike is a diplomat through and through

I begin to understand why all his Timelines cards have a high diplomacy score. This episode demonstrated so well why Pike is an expert for intercultural diplomacy. He doesn’t just go by protocol, he really tries to understand the people he’s talking to.

To find out that the R’Ongovians don’t just imitate their respondents, but that one of their prime traits is empathy, and that their desire is to be understood, wasn’t so easy to conclude from their behavior. Even though they even told Pike that right in his face when Captain Vasso said “We too listen. Empathy is a hallmark of our people. Few understand that.”

But who would go that far and realize that is their main desire?

Pike analyzed all encounters and came to that conclusion anyways, while everyone else was more or less confused about the R’Ongovian’s weird behavior. Pike also took a lot of risk when he talked like a waterfall about why they should NOT ally with the Federation. I could literally see Robert April die a little bit more inwardly with every word Pike added to his speech.

(Robert April be like “Shut up you idiot!”)

And that cocky grin Pike had when the R’Ongovians left? At that point he KNEW he hit the bulls eye.

I begin to wonder with all of Pike’s diplomacy (omg I misspelled it at first and wrote dimplomacy! haha, Freudean slip!) skills why he didn’t become a Federation ambassador after his time on the Enterprise. Instead he became Fleet Captain with the focus on overseeing the cadet education. Sure, you need a lot of empathy to train cadets (which Pike totally has! And which is a trait I am missing on his Timelines cards as well btw!!). But what a wasted opportunity not to use Pike’s diplomacy skills even more after his active duty on the Enterprise.

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The green wrap uniform

I cannot write about this episode without talking about THAT! I gotta admit when I saw the trailer, I wasn’t too fond of it as I only saw a small part of the uniform. And that color on Anson was just….

But when I saw Pike in the full uniform, I changed my mind. I am still not 100% fine with the color, but the uniform cut and the level of detail was a wonderful homage to TOS. Needless to say that Anson rocked the uniform as he fit very well into it, if I may say so.

The only complaint I have is that undershirt was not needed at all. 😇

I am not sure what the official purpose of this uniform version is though. Is it for diplomatic meetings only? Wouldn’t Pike wear it for every first contact situation then as well? Or is Pike going to change between uniforms whenever he feels like it, just as Kirk did?

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Some Randoms

The way Spock’s and T’Pring’s katras were switched back to their own bodies felt like a quick and dirty fix for me. On one hand it fit into the comedic episode. It’s hilarious that the solution is some stuff smeared on their foreheads with some crystals stuck into them and then magically, their katras are made to travel. But I’d much rather have seen this issue being fixed in a Vulcan way. I just don’t see a human finding the solution for a centuries old Vulcan procedure, even though I have no doubt that M’Benga is one hell of a doctor. Surely situations like these must already have happened in the Vulcan history? Even if it’s rare, I am sure a solution could be found in the Vulcan database. But this is just a minor nitpick as it fit into a comedic episode.

Una and La’an felt a bit out of character, and then again not. Especially La’an’s usual no-nonsense behavior makes her behavior in Spock Amok a bit unbelievable. But it seems when she’s around Una, she is a lot more opened up and ready to just enjoy her life. The contrast is stark though. It makes me wonder why she has so much trouble to open up to other people even though they already have proven to La’an that they want nothing but her well-being. But maybe that is her story in this show, that she’ll slowly overcome her deep trauma and is able to open up to other people. Time will tell.

We got Robert April again! YAY! I am so happy about that. I love his dynamic with his former Number One and I love how close they apparently are. There is no rank calling involved at all between the two. And around April, Pike can act like one of his protégés. For a change he can be the one who gives April the headaches. 🤭

In my last rambling I wrote that we’d make a time jump in this season to have the Enterprise repaired offscreen. It looks like that assumption was wrong. Instead this episode is a bit of a continuation from the last episode and the Enterprise gets repaired at Space Station One while most of the crew is granted shore leave. I didn’t know space stations also have space docks. I always thought space docks were their own kind of orbital stations.

Speaking of shore leave, I would have loved to see what Pike had in mind for his. Also, can we appreciate his civvies for one moment please? Please more of that!

Kyle is mean? 😱 Can we please also see that and not just get told?

So Una and La’an punish the two ensigns, and then do exactly the same things? I would have preferred once they completed their bingo cards they had gone to the transporter room and told the Ensigns that their punishment was lifted. But from now on the air lock part has to be scratched from the bingo card. It feels a bit mean and hypocritical to me that they didn't.

What exactly is this thing in Pike’s quarters? Is it some sort of moving picture? A video frame? An aquarium but for a forest? Or is it a hologram (which would make all the canon crusaders go berserk)? It is very pretty, that’s for sure!

[chrisnaustin]

If only I were she!

[ladyorlandodream]

[despinareviews]

BOOK REVIEW: Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew, Narrated by Jennifer Hui

I have just read #Dandelion courtesy of #NetGalley. What an incredible book - highly recommend a pick-up! Full review on my blog:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. Dandelion Audiobook Cover This novel follows Lilly – daughter of Chinese immigrants in Canada throughout her journey to motherhood after being abandoned by her own mother in childhood. Her father was previously stateless in Brunei and works in the mines in British Columbia with a ‘chip on his shoulder’ about management. Her mother, Swee Hua, misses home and feels…

[holyhuppert]

Golden Globe winners Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jennifer Coolidge and Angela Bassett.

[luckydiorxoxo]

[heartlandians]

When I auditioned for “Chloe” the role was open ethnicity. At my first fitting, me and Jamie Block discussed the possibility of incorporating my culture into the wedding scene….I was blown away by the reception. From the writing to wardrobe to set design to make up to hair, everyone brought in an element of what a Chinese wedding would be like and it meant the absolute world to me. The splash of red, the dragon inspired hair, the double happiness symbol!

If you have never seen a Chinese x Western cowboy wedding, tune into the season finale of Heartland.

Please swipe! Enjoy the amazing work of this fabulous dream cast and crew, as well as some season 17. Photos by: Jennifer Hui

[politelymenacing]

"Film and TV awards are complete bullshit and don't mean a thing" she says sobbing over Brendan Fraser winning at the Critics Choice Awards mere days after losing it at Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh and Jennifer Coolidge's wins at the Golden Globes.

[confessions-heartland]

"I don't think people are sympathetic enough about Chloe. She's not only dealing with the fact that she is trying to get her dream wedding together in a place that she has no connection to but her MIL is incredibly toxic about her relationship, she is trying to bond with her fiance's family who straight up abandoned him, and then the fact that it looks like her fiance has been lying to her about what he wants for their future? Girl, I'd lose it too"

[jurassicjen]

Ke Huy Quan and Jennifer Lawrence at the Oscars last night

[marvelsgirl616]

Ke Huy Quan is so precious 🥹😭❤️