Star Trek 2009: Third viewing (in as many days!)

[butterfly]

So, I actually ended up grabbing another viewing of Star Trek last night (I don't think that I've ever watched a movie three times in its opening weekend) and wanted to share additional squee and thoughts.

Comments

[mrs_underhill]

I definitely see their first kiss as happening in the turbolift too -- the moment was so delicate I held my breath the entire time -- and how they were navigating around one another definitely felt as if they had never done that sort of thing before.
Yes, yes! That's how I saw it too, and that's why I loved that moment. As it felt like something extraodinary was happening. Got shivers down my spine. Definitely the first-time kiss.
What I saw there was not Uhura taking advantage of his vulnerable state, but something she braced herself to do because she felt he needed that emotional release, that it would be too hard on him to keep it all in, Vulcan-style. I saw same resolve in her, in taking matters in her own hands, as in asserting herself to be on the Enterprise. She did it because she wanted to save him, from himself.
She tried to do it and failed - while the only one who broke through, who succeded later, was Kirk! He broke through to Spock in a very different and manly and special way because he's the one :)

I read a comment here, a great observation, that Sarek gave Spock permission to fall in love by admitting that he loved his mother. Oh yes! Yes! But Kirk's "therapy" came first and was essential for Spock to let it out, and to open up to Uhura later.
I really can't get it when people complain about Uhura taking over from Kirk/Spock. This movie is so slashy it's off the scale, and Kirk and Spock are so the main boys in there. Uhura makes it complicated, yes, but I love her contribution so! I love how it is made so important, and how it would mess everything up for all of them. Uhura is not a Mary Sue here, not a throw-away, but someone with a potential for a poignant and tragic story in the sequels (a big story she never got in the show).
Yes. I'm bracing for her heartbreak in the sequel... No way they would go with her and Spock as a happy couple, as that wouldn't be a good drama. And I trust the authors to go ahead with Kirk/Spock subtext galore as they must know they struck gold with those new guys.
Even the the second kiss on the transporter can be seen as making Kirk vaguely jealous - of Spock, as in "how this infuriating guy dare to have someone more important to him than myself! I'm not done getting under his skin yet!" :)

OK. I just love everything in this movie so much.
And I agree that prior physical relationship between Spock/Uhura would ruin that love. Therefore I'm treating "favoritism" comment as in teacher/favorite student fondness, with romantic undertones, but perfectly innocent.
I see Spock being fond of her, seeing her having feelings for him but not acting on them except maybe light flirt as not to embarass him, and see her bracing herself and going above and beyond what she thought she could ever do, in an attempt to help him. And him responding tentatively and with longing but holding back. It's all rather beautiful, and I believe it was meant to be read this way, as the authors are not idiots to spoil it all. Execution could be more clear, I agree.