Star Trek

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

So I'm really not getting this thing about the charcters not being the same, or their relationships to each other being false

Yeah, while I'm not so bothered by it, I'm with mousepod here. I'm not sure you can at all argue that these characters are just slightly different but essentially the same people.

Because of the alteration of the timeline Kirk grew up without his father and a huge chip on his shoulder taking an entirely different route to where he is and meeting all of the characters in entirely different circumstances.

Spock is having a romantic relationship with Uhura has learned that it is ok to express that love and is living as the refugee of a nearly eradicated species.

Sulu apparently bought a stupid ass sword somewhere and now takes it with him everywhere.

This movie set up extremely different characters with the cheat that in future films they can return to our shared now falsified experience for cheap nostalgia.

I didn't care, but I am surprised to see that so many of the people who were so horribly upset when The Force turned out to be a bacterial infection don't seem to care at all that Abrams just pulled the science fiction version of "and then he woke up to find it was all a dream."