Who said don't mess with the timeline?
Certainly not the producers of the new Star Trek movie which I had the guilty pleasure of watching yesterday.
After my dates for the evening pulled out due to too-tiredness (fair enough, they'd just come back from a short trip to Switzerland, and I know how this can drain you), I went on my own. Is this a disturbing tendency, going to the cinema on your own and enjoying it a bit more each time? Somehow the relative anonymity feels good. You're out, but you don't need to talk. Except for when you do, along the lines of "Excuse me, I believe this is my seat." - "Oh, and my jacket had just settled in so nicely." - "Well if no one takes those seats, I'll let your jacket have it back and move over." - "No need, my jacket is already making itself really comfortable over here." - "Quite the adaptive jacket you've got there." - "Yes, my dear companion, the jacket..." - I almost started flirting with a guy at least ten years younger than me! Because he personified his jacket!
The film itself was more fun than I'd thought. Some really good gags, some cheap laughs, some action for action's sake that I actually enjoyed, some gaping plotholes and missing logic - hello Vulcans. And sorta thingie, with this plotline the whole future, i.e. TNG, DS9, Voyager etc. will, er not happen?
Okay, so it's a reboot, and in the sense of a Bond reboot, this would, hah, make sense, but then Bond has never claimed one consistant universe. Which Star Trek canon series and films (not sure about the novels) sort of have to date. While at the same time milking the concept of parralel universes well enough. Spock/Uhura? Vulcan destroyed? Wtf? Not that I mind. I think I liked the film so much because I'd never cared so much about Kirk and co. in the first place, so I didn't overexite myself with high expectations that couldn't be anything but Not Met. Or something.
Anyway, I had fun. It certainly helped that I haven't been watching TV series like Lost or Heroes, so the faces were pretty much blank slates for me. Except for Mr. Urban. Who looked nothing like Eomer, though. And Captain Pike was cool. There has to be one cool bloke over fifty or I won't like zer movie. :-p
After my dates for the evening pulled out due to too-tiredness (fair enough, they'd just come back from a short trip to Switzerland, and I know how this can drain you), I went on my own. Is this a disturbing tendency, going to the cinema on your own and enjoying it a bit more each time? Somehow the relative anonymity feels good. You're out, but you don't need to talk. Except for when you do, along the lines of "Excuse me, I believe this is my seat." - "Oh, and my jacket had just settled in so nicely." - "Well if no one takes those seats, I'll let your jacket have it back and move over." - "No need, my jacket is already making itself really comfortable over here." - "Quite the adaptive jacket you've got there." - "Yes, my dear companion, the jacket..." - I almost started flirting with a guy at least ten years younger than me! Because he personified his jacket!
The film itself was more fun than I'd thought. Some really good gags, some cheap laughs, some action for action's sake that I actually enjoyed, some gaping plotholes and missing logic - hello Vulcans. And sorta thingie, with this plotline the whole future, i.e. TNG, DS9, Voyager etc. will, er not happen?
Okay, so it's a reboot, and in the sense of a Bond reboot, this would, hah, make sense, but then Bond has never claimed one consistant universe. Which Star Trek canon series and films (not sure about the novels) sort of have to date. While at the same time milking the concept of parralel universes well enough. Spock/Uhura? Vulcan destroyed? Wtf? Not that I mind. I think I liked the film so much because I'd never cared so much about Kirk and co. in the first place, so I didn't overexite myself with high expectations that couldn't be anything but Not Met. Or something.
Anyway, I had fun. It certainly helped that I haven't been watching TV series like Lost or Heroes, so the faces were pretty much blank slates for me. Except for Mr. Urban. Who looked nothing like Eomer, though. And Captain Pike was cool. There has to be one cool bloke over fifty or I won't like zer movie. :-p