"Into Darkness" Boldly Goes Where Others HAVE Gone Before (but still well worth return visits)
I finally got around to seeing "Star Trek: Into Darkness" in the theater yesterday and was pretty well satisfied, though it definitely covered some familiar ST:TOS and original series movies territory. Still, it mixed the familiar elements around in some truly interesting and entertaining ways. And I'm fond enough of ALL the new Enterprise
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No, indeed! The sympathy and sneaking admiration I felt so briefly for Cumberbatch's Khan didn't have anything to do with his presenting himself as a romantic or swashbuckling figure, but rather because of the deep and apparently genuine bleakness of his grief when he described his belief that Admiral Marcus had killed his 72 'family' members. In those moments, I could almost see him as sort of the negative image of what Kirk and/or Spock might have felt and become, if their isolation and losses had been just that bit more complete (if Kirk had never met Pike, e.g., and had therefore never entered Starfleet, or if Spock had truly found himself the last Vulcan left alive in the galaxy), and it was on that basis that I could begin to see Khan as somewhat sympathetic, someone whose pain I could recognize and feel for.
That little dude is too much like an Ewok or other Star Wars “cute” character, and he doesn’t do much for me. Maybe I’m missing the point.
I think that IS the point of the little 'cute' alien sidekick -- to appeal to the "Star Wars" fans. Abrams is up-front about the fact that he never got into ST at all as a kid and wasn't a fan even when he took on the first movie, though he was working with at least a couple of writers who WERE big-time [male] "Star Trek" fans. Therefore, they tried to come up with a script that contained some things for long-time fans and some things that non-fans might enjoy.
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