Star Trek and Green Lantern and the War of Lettuce

[kali921]

Dear World:

I would like to apologize in advance for the capslock that will be making abundant guest appearances in this LJ entry.

Okay, bitches. We're gonna talk some Star Trek.

But first? Via the_croupier -- and I cannot BELIEVE that I have not seen this already - the BEST fan-made trailer I have ever seen. You know what it's a trailer for

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[oakenguy]

DelinquentYouthKirk was, I think, supposed to be a lovable rapscallion but somehow my gut missed the memo and thought he was a jerk. (It's the same memo they keep trying to send me about Jason Todd and Damian, only with the new name cut & pasted--darn thing keeps going to my killfile).

I might be wrong about this, but besides Vulcan and the other fridgings didn't 90% of the cadets, i.e. all the ones who were on ships which weren't the Enterprise, get fridged? Including Uhura's roommate?

[kali921]

Presumably they got fridged, too. But they weren't as central to the plot as catalysts/change agents affecting the course of individual emotion-based decisions. Nero was furious about Romulus & Remus being gone (presumably Remus was fridged, too) but affected most deeply by the deaths of his wife and unborn child. Spock went quietly scorched earth after Vulcan got sucked into a singularity

[syringavulgaris]

Motto on the Kirk-reactions. I'm not blaming the actor, he was clearly putting in the performance they wanted; but I too did not get the memo.

Thanks for mentioning the comic bit, which I was wholly unaware of. When Nero's ship first sailed on screen the three of of us were all "...um JMS called and he wants his Shadows production design back". I still think there's truth in that, but I am lightening up to know that there is at least a reason it looks wack. Related: I found it a certain degree of Communication-of-Culture Failure that none of us present, all of us Trek fans, recognized that the enemy were Romulan, even after seeing them, until the bibbling about Romulan signals started.

But, I mean, it's a Trek film; we weren't expecting Citizen Kane here. And as Trek films go, it is rocketing to the head of the class. I got all mwaaa every time Nimoy was on screen.

[kali921]

Yes. Apparently Nero and his crew's facial tattoos? Are made with phaser burns because THEY WERE JUST THAT HARDCORE REVENGE. Another thing I learned that's addressed in either the comic or the novelization. Apparently in new!verse Romulans occasionally put temporary markings on their faces with space!henna for some kind of ritual or other, but these guys? After Romulus imploded? They burned theirs onto their skin with phasers. GRRRRRRRR. HARDCORE.

[oakenguy]

I've actually been avoiding anything Bat-related since...hmm, have to think about this...oh, right, since Paul Dini's wife made that moronic comment a year or so ago. What little I heard about Morrison and Gaiman's, um, unique contributions didn't seem enticing to me at all.

What is enticing, though, is San Francisco for a vacation spot this August. You've been warned. ;)

[kali921]

LONG OVERDUE CAPSLOCK RESPONSE: YAY SAN FRANCISCO, YES, YES!! <3