Star Trek

[innerSpaceman]

I dunno why? I was emotionally attached to bearded Spock. Or maybe that was sexually attached, I'm not sure.

Well, obviously it was because he was also played by Leonard Nimoy, which was a starting point to me really liking the developing character of bearded Spock.


Similar with this reboot. We start with extending the good will of how we feel about Kirk, Spock, McCoy, et al. and give these new guys a chance to fill those boots.

Most people loved the way Zach Spock filled them. Plenty of people are pleased with the Urban McCoy fit. And there's perhaps less of us that feel Pine's fine in Shatner's boots.

The spirit of the proceedings and the actors' interpretations sold me on the new gang by movie's end. That's saying something, because there have been many Trek movies where the spirit of the proceedings barely sold me on the already-beloved gang.

[mousepod]

Your point is legit, iSm.

Worked for you, didn't for me.

But I'm glad we're arguing on the same page.

[Alex]

How about this idea, the destruction of Vulcan sends the rebooted franchise into an existential nihilistic crisis.

Everybody grows beards.

It turns out that Abrams new altnerate universe is actually the Mirror Universe.

[mousepod]

Alex...







cool.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by mousepod

Your point is legit, iSm.

Worked for you, didn't for me.

But I'm glad we're arguing on the same page.

Agree with what iSm said. And for me, it was the time travel conceit that afforded me that "good will" from the get-go. It set up the characters as starting from a common point, and diverging due to the change in the timeline.

If I want to justify it with the Mirror Universe, I could argue that these versions are from a very close neighbor in the collection of parallel universe that branched of in a way that only slightly affected almost the same people but for some small changes. As opposed to the Mirror Universe versions which are clearly from a parallel universe with major differences that has resulted in drastically different personalities for our heroes.

[innerSpaceman]

I think I'd rather see the origin story of the Mirror Universe crew.









sorry, watching Mirror, Mirror right now on the full series DVDs i got for a steal at going-out-of-business Virgin hollywood last nite.

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I finally saw it. Fun fun fun movie!!!!! So much fun! I am firmly in the love it camp.
I also loved the first Transformers movie and will see the 2nd in the theater. So take my review with that filter.

Ditto to both. We can have our own love it thread.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Finally saw ST.

I agree with both those who loved it and hated it.

Sure it's fun, but I had to turn off all logic and the lens flare and camera-point-of-view rotation things *really* annoyed me and I wanted to strangle whoever thought that was a good idea. I liked the humor bits and the "standard" lines that are only funny because they're so cliche. I liked the industrial look to Engineering. I hated that they didn't show us Kirk reclosing the valve after he drops Scotty out. I liked Simon Pegg as Scotty. I liked Uhura a lot. Hot hot woman. Loved Spock Prime. Loved that he... "stretched" the truth. For some reason this was endearing, when the Vulcan on "Voyager" annoyed me because she lied all the time and I thought that was not allowed by Vulcans. I guess they could lie if lying were a logical course of action but I haven't found that to be true.

[BarTopDancer]

I'm watching a Star Trek TNG episode where they run into another USS Enterprise that came through a time rift altering the course of history.

[Kevy Baby]

I'm not watching anything as our frickin' TV is busted!!!