I agree, BC did an amazing job making Khan his own. I had been a little worried that he wouldn't have enough fire to go with the ice, but I was sold as soon as he started talking.
Getting back to the movie, I thought the beaming to the Klingon homeworld thingy was sort of hand-waved by the later reference to the Transwarp equations from the previous film? A devious, incredibly intelligent bad guy given access to the existence of those equations could do something with them, y/n?
Wellllll... I mean, I get that they were trying to explain that away, but I just didn't buy it. Transwarp beaming is pretty powerful, and Section 31 might have made it more so, but from Earth to the Klingon home planet is just too much of a stretch for me. If you can beam anywhere in the galaxy, why do they even need starships?
Then I remind myself that he was on course to be a genius level delinquent in the previous movie and accept his personality is going to be different to the original incarnation of Kirk accordingly.
Yes, I agree. I've never had a problem with Kirk's characterization, personally. Given how completely different his upbringing was, I totally buy this wilder, less mature Kirk.
And I totally agree that the scene by Pike's body had a much greater impact than the later stuff. I think that was just so true to these particular characters and where they are, instead of trying to cram them into the mold of their original counterparts.
I agree, BC did an amazing job making Khan his own. I had been a little worried that he wouldn't have enough fire to go with the ice, but I was sold as soon as he started talking.
Getting back to the movie, I thought the beaming to the Klingon homeworld thingy was sort of hand-waved by the later reference to the Transwarp equations from the previous film? A devious, incredibly intelligent bad guy given access to the existence of those equations could do something with them, y/n?
Wellllll... I mean, I get that they were trying to explain that away, but I just didn't buy it. Transwarp beaming is pretty powerful, and Section 31 might have made it more so, but from Earth to the Klingon home planet is just too much of a stretch for me. If you can beam anywhere in the galaxy, why do they even need starships?
Then I remind myself that he was on course to be a genius level delinquent in the previous movie and accept his personality is going to be different to the original incarnation of Kirk accordingly.
Yes, I agree. I've never had a problem with Kirk's characterization, personally. Given how completely different his upbringing was, I totally buy this wilder, less mature Kirk.
And I totally agree that the scene by Pike's body had a much greater impact than the later stuff. I think that was just so true to these particular characters and where they are, instead of trying to cram them into the mold of their original counterparts.
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