(no subject)
Despite my initial misgivings when seeing the trailer for the first time all those months ago, I am quite impressed with the Star Trek movie. I am impressed with just how well they managed to do the characterisations. @_@ Bones and Spock were especially dead center.
I lolled hard when McCoy finally went "Are you out of your Vulcan mind???" The scene with him barreling down the corridor while injecting Kirk with various drugs was also priceless. I like... liked a great many of the scenes. Even more difficult to pick out any favorites.
I am looking forward to the next one. I just have no idea where they are going to go from here. What I'd like is a good old fashioned exploration "episode" given the time and TLC of movie. Star Trek has always been a great vehicle for issue exploration (probably one of the great overarching themes of any of the series is that they all take on issues), but that always tends to be secondary in the movies. (Exceptions I can think of are II (revenge), VI (unity), First Contact (revenge), and Insurrection (blind following of orders... but seriously, not very worth watching), and... that's it) They have a lot of heritage to draw on (racism, war, genetic manipulation, rights and freedoms, tolerance, ~*~COMMUNISM IN SPACE~*~), but they may just opt to try to continue a plot and fill it with awesome character writing. I wouldn't mind another...
Whatever it is, this might be enough to completely restart Star Trek. :Db
I lolled hard when McCoy finally went "Are you out of your Vulcan mind???" The scene with him barreling down the corridor while injecting Kirk with various drugs was also priceless. I like... liked a great many of the scenes. Even more difficult to pick out any favorites.
I am looking forward to the next one. I just have no idea where they are going to go from here. What I'd like is a good old fashioned exploration "episode" given the time and TLC of movie. Star Trek has always been a great vehicle for issue exploration (probably one of the great overarching themes of any of the series is that they all take on issues), but that always tends to be secondary in the movies. (Exceptions I can think of are II (revenge), VI (unity), First Contact (revenge), and Insurrection (blind following of orders... but seriously, not very worth watching), and... that's it) They have a lot of heritage to draw on (racism, war, genetic manipulation, rights and freedoms, tolerance, ~*~COMMUNISM IN SPACE~*~), but they may just opt to try to continue a plot and fill it with awesome character writing. I wouldn't mind another...
Whatever it is, this might be enough to completely restart Star Trek. :Db