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Finally got a chance to see the new Star Trek movie. Overall I thought it was okay; not bad, but not great. Some observations:
-There was only one thing that REALLY bothered me. The story would have worked perfectly well if they had used an all new crew. It didn’t need to be Spock, Kirk, etc. Hell; it could have been set in any time period.... including AFTER Voyager, and you wouldn’t have needed to change anything!
-It seemed like a few ideas were beyond the writers. Not the science-fictiony bits; but some of the plot and character. So.... Kirk beats the Kobayashi Maru by cheating; we know this, but how he does it in the film wasn’t really beating it. He crashed the computer. In a really, REALLY obvious way which didn’t actually beat it. Same with getting Kirk on the Enterprise. “Say; if you don’t let me take my sick friend along on the important mission I’m not going.” It felt forced; like the writers couldn’t come up with a convincing way to do what needed to be done, so they sort of half-arsed it and hoped nobody would notice.
-The designs were odd, but not really bothersome. The Enterprise looked kinda chubby, but still looked like the Enterprise. (Or a Federation ship, at least.) The Romulans were very Warhammer 40K, and it seems that somewhere along the line they picked up the anime hero “superleap” power. And the 90's “Giant Robo” must have been REALLY popular ‘cos the Shizuma drive ends up in a lot of things these days....
-I thought for sure Spock was gonna get some pity sex. They basically took the Nurse Chapel/Spock subplot and moved it to a higher profile character. Pity; ‘cos when they do that, as well as have everyone all together all at once it makes the universe very small. Like anything important is only gonna happen to one of a handful of people and nobody else matters. (To that end, they sorta flirted with the “you’re the chosen one!” idea with Kirk, which I don’t like ‘cos it cheapens the character’s efforts.)
-Speaking of “nobody else matters”: Kirk, Sulu and a new guy in red go down to a planet. Guess who’s not making it back.
-It was nice that the resolution hinged on a character point: that being Kirk forcing Spock to go all Water Boy. But even that was kinda forced. Spock saw it coming and STILL fell for it?
Don C.
Finally got a chance to see the new Star Trek movie. Overall I thought it was okay; not bad, but not great. Some observations:
-There was only one thing that REALLY bothered me. The story would have worked perfectly well if they had used an all new crew. It didn’t need to be Spock, Kirk, etc. Hell; it could have been set in any time period.... including AFTER Voyager, and you wouldn’t have needed to change anything!
-It seemed like a few ideas were beyond the writers. Not the science-fictiony bits; but some of the plot and character. So.... Kirk beats the Kobayashi Maru by cheating; we know this, but how he does it in the film wasn’t really beating it. He crashed the computer. In a really, REALLY obvious way which didn’t actually beat it. Same with getting Kirk on the Enterprise. “Say; if you don’t let me take my sick friend along on the important mission I’m not going.” It felt forced; like the writers couldn’t come up with a convincing way to do what needed to be done, so they sort of half-arsed it and hoped nobody would notice.
-The designs were odd, but not really bothersome. The Enterprise looked kinda chubby, but still looked like the Enterprise. (Or a Federation ship, at least.) The Romulans were very Warhammer 40K, and it seems that somewhere along the line they picked up the anime hero “superleap” power. And the 90's “Giant Robo” must have been REALLY popular ‘cos the Shizuma drive ends up in a lot of things these days....
-I thought for sure Spock was gonna get some pity sex. They basically took the Nurse Chapel/Spock subplot and moved it to a higher profile character. Pity; ‘cos when they do that, as well as have everyone all together all at once it makes the universe very small. Like anything important is only gonna happen to one of a handful of people and nobody else matters. (To that end, they sorta flirted with the “you’re the chosen one!” idea with Kirk, which I don’t like ‘cos it cheapens the character’s efforts.)
-Speaking of “nobody else matters”: Kirk, Sulu and a new guy in red go down to a planet. Guess who’s not making it back.
-It was nice that the resolution hinged on a character point: that being Kirk forcing Spock to go all Water Boy. But even that was kinda forced. Spock saw it coming and STILL fell for it?
Don C.
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