Having finished the examination of temporal theory at The Examiner, I turn my attention to a subject I’ve addressed before, Star Trek. I have drafted a five-part discussion which begins today with Star Trek: Introduction to the 2009 Movie.
Although I’ve got a stack of articles which are answers to questions, I’m thinking that I probably need to focus on analyzing another movie–I just have not yet decided which one. Lake House has the advantages that I have viewed it, it’s relatively simple even if temporally disastrous, and Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are high profile names; it has the disadvantages that there’s not much to say about it and little of it is good. Bender’s Big Score might attract a new audience, but I don’t know whether I can survive the inanity of an episode of Futurama as long as that. There is a lot of demand for Butterfly Effect, but it looks to be difficult and depressing and for these reasons I have delayed watching it. John “A1Nut” Cross has given me something of a head start on The Last Mimzy, but also made me very much aware of how few answers the film offers to the many questions it raises. There are several other films here from which to choose, and at least a few about which I’ve received questions for which I do not yet have copies. So it will not be an easy choice.
But I suppose first I should see how the Star Trek analysis is received.
–M. J. Young
September 17th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Well MJ, my offer to do Time Line is still standing.
September 17th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
And MJ, I thought you said you weren’t doing any more time travel movies for the Temporal Anomalies site. What inspired the change of heart?
Also, I’ve seen Bender’s Big Score. It falls apart about 10 seconds after it opens. I wouldn’t even want to attempt to do an analysis of that one.
September 18th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
I am not talking about doing analyses for the Temporal Anomalies site. I’m talking about doing them for The Examiner.
I’ll take your comments on Bender under advisement. I’ve got someone hounding me to do it, though, so I might have to tackle it despite the problems.
–M. J. Young
September 21st, 2009 at 8:19 pm
I’d advise Bender’s as an article simply if you are being paid based on traffic then that’s a huge built-in audience. Also, I see that if you go on imdb.com and submit your articles they run the most interesting on front page. The Star Trek one would probably get put up there. A friend of mine did examiner articles for the Bay area and he’d get 10,000+ hits the day it made the main page on imdb.com
It wouldn’t hurt to try for that with every article you do.
just sayin’
September 21st, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Thanks. I didn’t realize that IMDB had that.
–M. J. Young
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I posted the links to the forum for making such recommendations, but there have been no replies on the thread and no noticeable increase in traffic on the articles site. Still, I’ll hit it again tomorrow after posting the next Star Trek article, and maybe that will help.
–M. J. Young
September 25th, 2009 at 3:29 am
You have to keep at it, they will pull from the forums and post on the main imdb page for articles that they feel will get a good response. It’s somewhat random at times but I think they’ll tap one of your articles at some point if you keep at it.