only going forward, and things are getting worse

[extemporanea]

Celebrated my apparent return to something vaguely resembling actual health (yay antibiotics!) by taking myself off to see the new Star Trek this morning. Um.

See, this film has generated a lot of buzz, and various trekkoids of varying degrees of frothing fandom have been fairly positive about it, and said it feels like Star Trek. Only problem is

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An ally!

[first_fallen]

Hooray, I thought I was the only person in the whole world who didn't like it :P.

I agree with you all all points except two:
- too much Simon Pegg, imho. I'm not that fond of him.
- the Romulan spaceship was awesome, all spiky and evil. Also Spock's little bubble-thing was really cute.

It was a good SF movie, but it was ST. Ppl are all like "well, it was an excellent reboot of ST" and therein lies my problem: I don't think ST needed to be rebooted. They should've let well enough alone. The only reason they're "rebooting" it is to rake in more bajillions of dollars off a very popular franchise. If they'd wanted to reboot it they should've chosen a cast post-Voyager and completely new characters, not taken stock well-loved characters and then split the timelines to be able to fuck the canon (cannon?) in the ass. (Although, I'm looking forward to the new Sherlock Holmes and Phleep pointed out that it does the same thing with the SH canon, paints a completely different picture of the character and some fans might feel the same way about that that I do about ST. He's wrong, obv, RDJr can do no wrong.)

I should've written a blog post about it, I was really saddened by it (I also expected to enjoy it more) and I felt depro for days but my posts about things I don't like tend to turn into rants so I thought I'd wait for someone with better critical review skills to post about it and then just comment with agreement :P.

Re: An ally!

[extemporanea]

I dunno, the Romulan spaceship was OK, and the spinny-wheel Spockmobile was quite cute, but neither of them made me go "Wow!" like, for example, the spaceships in Babylon 5 do. They both seemed a bit ... done. Pedestrian. Nothing new.

I am enough of a ST heretic to think that the series could use a reboot, that some of its sensibilities are rather outdated, but by JJ Abrams? Hell no, babe. This was a confused mess. At times a confused mess with a hot cast, but still confused. (You could, though, convert me to the No Reboot Way by, for example, lending me Next Generation to watch in its entirety, thus improving my tragic lack of education...)

I, too, am looking forward to the new Sherlock Holmes, while confidently expect it to outrage the canon sideways in all directions. I'm with you, it's RDJ, he can do what he damned well likes :>.

Re: An ally!

[first_fallen]

You are then third in line to borrow TNG, after the Sad and Andcara. Although the Pirate Lord Sadler will most likely rip it to AVI or something, so might be more widely available soon.