Star Trek

[Cadaverous Pallor]

LOVED IT!!!!

I can't believe they did it. A reboot, an alternate universe, new and old at the same time.

I could easily nitpick things, as JW did (and I have more too) but I found myself laughing them off and enjoying the movie fully anyway, which surprised me greatly. They nailed so much that I love about Trek that the rest seemed unimportant.

My heart was in my throat for much of it...Vulcan! Spock's mom! *sob* Yet instead of getting angry at the writers I found myself involved in this alternate universe deprived of these things.

There were some amazing performances that drew on my deepest Trekkie emotions. There was a lot of nuance hidden in there. Bones was killing me - damn, he was amazing.

At the point where Kirk talks to old Spock in the ice cave, I felt a sharp pain in my chest as I fully grokked the death of the old show. These actors are beyond old, some gone. That era is beyond over. I truly felt a sense of grief while Nimoy told young Kirk of his friendship with him.

But, what this movie signifies is that these characters are defying death. It's a reverse engineered comic book. The show and actors came first - the characters developed later. And now, the characters have jumped out and beyond their origins and have become a mythos onto themselves, open to new interpretations, new adventures.

I laughed and cried and loved it.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Or, as Onion News perfectly encapsulates it.

EXACTLY! Bwahahaha!