ST Movie Thoughts
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Spoilers but the movie is from 1989!)
[Spoiler (click to open)]So ten years later, literally! I watched the next film in the series. In a world of shiny alternative TOS timelines and sleek Discovery (of which I have not actually seen much), it was a truly unfair comparision :-D
It's highly indulgent isn't it. Three old men finally going camping in the country-side speaking about their feelings for one another. The bromance has never been more acknowledged. But seriously it felt genuinely like they belonged in the retirement home now. Not having another energetic adventure through space. If it was their retirement then yes that would be a true to their charactors retirements plans indeed. I doubt they would just be content watching the world from the sidelines.
And when did Scotty and Uhura become a thing? I mean I have forgotten most of "The Voyage Home" but surely I would have remembered that.
Anyway that was a terrible movie. Held together only by the familar roles all the charectors played. And the good will of the audience who will /would always look on the bright side of anything that that original cast chose to do. I must admit that God being just another Alien being is a trope reused so many times by the TOS cast it was not at all unexpected.
I went on to also watch Star Trek Animated Episode 7: The Infinite Vulcan, which raised almost no qualms about a clone of Spock running around the universe. I see this series as canon though. Immediate continuity from series three TOS as its all original cast stuff. And lol so far it hasn't unexpectedly sprang a half brother for Spock yet like The Final Frontier just did :'-D. I mean that seems to me such lazy writing. Insert random completely unmentioned for years, half brother here for story! I think Discovery plays with this concept, but thats a new show with new people so I'll give it that. Actually I liked the insight into McCoys fathers situation given by Final Frontier, some personal angst and drama out of the blue does give the story more depth, but secret half brother is really bending plausibility (in a show about humans finally achieving unity and world peace; real stretch to believe anyway; the sci-fy I see happening!).
I also watched TOS; The Doomsday Machine today. What a good episode. What a good show. I could tell I was watching the remastered version because my brain was going uurgh no no its wrong whilst at the same time admiring the touched up visuals. But the acting remains timeless without touching up.
Its been so long since I posted I believe I cant remember how to do an LJ cut. Ah LJ, still surviving, From an era when people still wrote paragraphs and attention spans could read entire posts. Now its a 140 charectors and an eyecatching gif to make every point on earth. Because that's the attention spans we now have left. Possibly we may all lose focus halfway to the path of self destruction as a species one day. But that focus seems unwavering.
[Spoiler (click to open)]So ten years later, literally! I watched the next film in the series. In a world of shiny alternative TOS timelines and sleek Discovery (of which I have not actually seen much), it was a truly unfair comparision :-D
It's highly indulgent isn't it. Three old men finally going camping in the country-side speaking about their feelings for one another. The bromance has never been more acknowledged. But seriously it felt genuinely like they belonged in the retirement home now. Not having another energetic adventure through space. If it was their retirement then yes that would be a true to their charactors retirements plans indeed. I doubt they would just be content watching the world from the sidelines.
And when did Scotty and Uhura become a thing? I mean I have forgotten most of "The Voyage Home" but surely I would have remembered that.
Anyway that was a terrible movie. Held together only by the familar roles all the charectors played. And the good will of the audience who will /would always look on the bright side of anything that that original cast chose to do. I must admit that God being just another Alien being is a trope reused so many times by the TOS cast it was not at all unexpected.
I went on to also watch Star Trek Animated Episode 7: The Infinite Vulcan, which raised almost no qualms about a clone of Spock running around the universe. I see this series as canon though. Immediate continuity from series three TOS as its all original cast stuff. And lol so far it hasn't unexpectedly sprang a half brother for Spock yet like The Final Frontier just did :'-D. I mean that seems to me such lazy writing. Insert random completely unmentioned for years, half brother here for story! I think Discovery plays with this concept, but thats a new show with new people so I'll give it that. Actually I liked the insight into McCoys fathers situation given by Final Frontier, some personal angst and drama out of the blue does give the story more depth, but secret half brother is really bending plausibility (in a show about humans finally achieving unity and world peace; real stretch to believe anyway; the sci-fy I see happening!).
I also watched TOS; The Doomsday Machine today. What a good episode. What a good show. I could tell I was watching the remastered version because my brain was going uurgh no no its wrong whilst at the same time admiring the touched up visuals. But the acting remains timeless without touching up.
Its been so long since I posted I believe I cant remember how to do an LJ cut. Ah LJ, still surviving, From an era when people still wrote paragraphs and attention spans could read entire posts. Now its a 140 charectors and an eyecatching gif to make every point on earth. Because that's the attention spans we now have left. Possibly we may all lose focus halfway to the path of self destruction as a species one day. But that focus seems unwavering.