to boldly palimpsest the past
So, yeah, okay, I saw Star Trek. I've been sort of hesitant about it, but since everyone on Rotten Tomatoes and my flist seemed to approve, I figured, what the hell.
And I pretty much liked it.
I've never been much of a TOS fan. I watched TNG and Voyager, and was pretty pissed that DS9 never aired on a channel I could see, but TOS always struck me as the space adventures of Kirk's dick, and so I only watched it once in a while (and that movie with the whales and mama Camden). So I knew the canon well enough to know everyone's names, but not well enough to have any emotional attachment to them.
Funnily enough, the one I got the most emotional attachment to was old Spock. There was a softness to him that I hadn't expected and quite fell for. I've always thought of him as quite alien, but he wasn't at all, here - and neither, of course, was new Spock, though it didn't warm my heart the same way in his case.
With the rest of the cast, I do admit to sometimes switching them in my head to liviapenn's version, especially when things got too blokey, which they did kind of a lot. (Though I had no salvation for the initial bit of the film, short of switching Doctor Cameron for daddy Kirk, and of course that's just silly.) I couldn't remember who liviapenn had starred as McCoy, though, so he stayed himself throughout the film, which I didn't mind so much because I liked Eomer in the part. Most of the others switched back and forth between boy and girl in my head, and Nero became very thoroughly Jennifer Connelly towards the end, which made me massively hot for her, and this is BADWRONG because imploding planets is NOT SEXY, but yum.
And if you think that's schizo, imagine me going, "OMG CATHERINE TATE! no, wait, Pegg is awesome YES BUT CATHERINE TATE SAYING THESE LINES but listen to him saying them, he's CATHERINE TATE FTW!"
Chechov was totally adorable, though I fully admit to never having hated Wesley Crusher or Adric either, which means I'm not qualified to judge wee little genius types. (But he WAS adorable, wasn't he?) Uhura was cool but spent way too much time nuzzling Spock. Is that military procedure by Star Trek times? Meh. Sulu didn't quite register, for some reason. And then of course there's Kirk, who was a jerk, though a pretty tolerable jerk compared to the old version - I didn't miss Janeway and Picard as much as I maybe would have expected. (Someone called him a post-Chrichton Kirk, which I can kinda see if I tilt my head in a certain direction, but what I liked about Chrichton was always that he had this edge of hysterical, giggling madness from quite early on, and obviously Kirk doesn't have that. Pike reminded me of Chrichton's dad/the alien pretending to be Chrichton's dad, though.)
As for the actiony stuff, it was... actiony. I'm sorry, but things blowing up in space will never be of much interest to me. A good thing that most of it was just setup for the character stuff. (And of course a lot of what happened was quite obvious, in the "Ok, they're not gonna kill Kirk, and he's thoroughly screwed, I guess this is where old Spock shows up" sense. Not so much the suspense of what will happen as the pleasure of seeing it happen, when that's a pleasure.)
Altogether, the chars are chatting in my mind. I'll probably be curious of the next movie and/or fanfic, but Doctor Who still remains more fun. :-)
ETA: Thing I liked - Spock not being the last of the Vulcans, because it makes much more sense that 10,000 of them would be off-world at the moment. (Although, the planet, people and language are all called Vulcan? That's a bit weird.) Thing I didn't so much like - Kirk breezing through the ranks into captainhood. Yes, it shows his rebel ways, and he was heroic and saved people, but it just freaking annoys me. Cheating will get you further, indeed.
And I pretty much liked it.
I've never been much of a TOS fan. I watched TNG and Voyager, and was pretty pissed that DS9 never aired on a channel I could see, but TOS always struck me as the space adventures of Kirk's dick, and so I only watched it once in a while (and that movie with the whales and mama Camden). So I knew the canon well enough to know everyone's names, but not well enough to have any emotional attachment to them.
Funnily enough, the one I got the most emotional attachment to was old Spock. There was a softness to him that I hadn't expected and quite fell for. I've always thought of him as quite alien, but he wasn't at all, here - and neither, of course, was new Spock, though it didn't warm my heart the same way in his case.
With the rest of the cast, I do admit to sometimes switching them in my head to liviapenn's version, especially when things got too blokey, which they did kind of a lot. (Though I had no salvation for the initial bit of the film, short of switching Doctor Cameron for daddy Kirk, and of course that's just silly.) I couldn't remember who liviapenn had starred as McCoy, though, so he stayed himself throughout the film, which I didn't mind so much because I liked Eomer in the part. Most of the others switched back and forth between boy and girl in my head, and Nero became very thoroughly Jennifer Connelly towards the end, which made me massively hot for her, and this is BADWRONG because imploding planets is NOT SEXY, but yum.
And if you think that's schizo, imagine me going, "OMG CATHERINE TATE! no, wait, Pegg is awesome YES BUT CATHERINE TATE SAYING THESE LINES but listen to him saying them, he's CATHERINE TATE FTW!"
Chechov was totally adorable, though I fully admit to never having hated Wesley Crusher or Adric either, which means I'm not qualified to judge wee little genius types. (But he WAS adorable, wasn't he?) Uhura was cool but spent way too much time nuzzling Spock. Is that military procedure by Star Trek times? Meh. Sulu didn't quite register, for some reason. And then of course there's Kirk, who was a jerk, though a pretty tolerable jerk compared to the old version - I didn't miss Janeway and Picard as much as I maybe would have expected. (Someone called him a post-Chrichton Kirk, which I can kinda see if I tilt my head in a certain direction, but what I liked about Chrichton was always that he had this edge of hysterical, giggling madness from quite early on, and obviously Kirk doesn't have that. Pike reminded me of Chrichton's dad/the alien pretending to be Chrichton's dad, though.)
As for the actiony stuff, it was... actiony. I'm sorry, but things blowing up in space will never be of much interest to me. A good thing that most of it was just setup for the character stuff. (And of course a lot of what happened was quite obvious, in the "Ok, they're not gonna kill Kirk, and he's thoroughly screwed, I guess this is where old Spock shows up" sense. Not so much the suspense of what will happen as the pleasure of seeing it happen, when that's a pleasure.)
Altogether, the chars are chatting in my mind. I'll probably be curious of the next movie and/or fanfic, but Doctor Who still remains more fun. :-)
ETA: Thing I liked - Spock not being the last of the Vulcans, because it makes much more sense that 10,000 of them would be off-world at the moment. (Although, the planet, people and language are all called Vulcan? That's a bit weird.) Thing I didn't so much like - Kirk breezing through the ranks into captainhood. Yes, it shows his rebel ways, and he was heroic and saved people, but it just freaking annoys me. Cheating will get you further, indeed.