Interesting analysis! I agree with pretty much everything you said, and I've been thinking many of these things myself without putting words to them. Often who's seen as "good" and who's seen as "bad" is determined by who is the main character of the movie. I myself sometimes have a tendency to fall for villains or anti-heroes if they're written and played in a way where you can see their side of things. This is definitely the case with Khan. ( Also the fact that he's so attractive sort of helps... yeah, I find it easier to overlook a fictional character's bad sides if he's pretty
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And yes, what's with freezing the poor thing again? Did they even let him heal up first? Whatever happened to that proper trial stuff Kirk thought he should have instead of being killed from orbit? ( No, we're not supposed to care about that. The "bad guy" was beaten and the "main characters" are happy, that's all that matters. ) We don't know if he was told his people are still alive or not. I hope he was. It would be incredibly cruel otherwise. Then again I don't put it past people who are so convinced of their good-guyhood ( Starfleet ) to think he doesn't deserve to know because "he's the bad guy
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I think, in Into Darkness, it was Spock who assumed Khan would wipe out all inferior people, but I've also heard that the original Space Seed backstory for Khan is also canon in the new universe. I'm not entirely sure on the accuracy of that, so don't take it as gospel, but I think the consensus was that Spock, who hadn't grown up on Earth, wouldn't have known about Khan being the exception to the rule when it came to Augments
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You know, I just realized why I want to see the two Khans as separate characters. ( Except for the fact that they / the actors look very different. ) It's the whole "abusive boyfriend" thing that goes on with Marla McGivers in Space Seed. It just disgusts me. ( And I don't understand how she can love a man who treats her like that, and betray her ship for him. ) Everything else, I can sort of sympathize with. But I still think he was way more justified in whatever he did after being woken up by Marcus before STID than by Kirk in Space Seed.
In Space Seed, he'd lost power once, and had to take over the ship to avoid being shipped to Starbase Whatever Number and end up in some sort of prison/punishment ( Kirk later says something about rehab colony I think? ). If he wants to be free and "build an empire" with his people without being "cured", it has to be now. And I got the impression that he didn't actually want to kill people, he didn't get any pleasure out of killing unless they were actual enemies
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Yes, I can totally understand Khan going mad with grief over his wife ( who betrayed him and he forgave her ) and his people, and years of hardship on a harsh planet. But he was given a choice: "Rule in Hell or serve in Heaven". And rule in Hell he did... a bit more of a Hell than either he or Kirk thought when they were left there, but... it was a gamble and they both lost in the end. Yeah, it sucked. But Khan was screwed from the start. I don't really buy the "superiority breeds superior ambition" thing as a total necessity in all cases, but according to Enterprise there was something not right with them, and I definitely think that being raised as a tool for a specific purpose which then fails and the people you were supposed to save turn against you will screw anybody up beyond belief. But I agree, if Kirk had been stranded on a hostile planet for some 15 years, and lost the woman he loved and 20 of his crew, everybody would cheer him on for getting revenge on the man who stranded him there
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In Space Seed, he'd lost power once, and had to take over the ship to avoid being shipped to Starbase Whatever Number and end up in some sort of prison/punishment ( Kirk later says something about rehab colony I think? ). If he wants to be free and "build an empire" with his people without being "cured", it has to be now. And I got the impression that he didn't actually want to kill people, he didn't get any pleasure out of killing unless they were actual enemies ( ... )
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