Comments | shoebox2: So I haven't actually seen the new Star Trek movie yet.

shoebox2

So I haven't actually seen the new Star Trek movie yet.

May 09, 2009 23:16

I've been waiting until the flist reactions came in because I was so afraid, given how massive a reboot really was needed, of all the things they might try to 'modernise' TOS. A mad villain with a perpetual deformed grin bent on undermining the Federation was the least of it.

But according to the reviews thus far, it's OK. They did make one huge ( Read more... )

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tree_and_leaf May 10 2009, 07:53:21 UTC

Reading the James Blish novelisations - based off first-drafts - well before seeing the eps may give me a sensitivity to that particular phenomenon. Some of the most outre eps were once the most brilliant

Me too - in my head, Blish is my preferred canon... The special effects are better, too.

ETA: And all the same, I still maintain that Kirk is not a Simple Space Cowboy, but a devious-minded, ambitious workaholic who, were he a Harry Potter character, would so be in Slytherin. Doesn't mean he's not mostly a good guy - I like Kirk, but my heart always belonged to Spock. Of course, it doesn't hurt that Nimoy was a much better actor - he can stand there being theoretically entirely non-reacty and impassive, and you can still see what Spock is thinking (usually "Humans!")

ETA2 Sorry about the deleted comment, a result of incompetence in editing...

rj_anderson May 10 2009, 19:26:12 UTC

Oh, Kirk is SO Slytherin. You are absolutely and totally right. Not a Gryffindor at all.

shoebox2 May 10 2009, 22:57:49 UTC

Of course I must bow to you both in the matter of House affiliation. :) But I dunno...I can see Kirk as driven right enough, but devious? He just gave off such a vibe of being satisfied with what he had - which was basically being the ultimate male fantasy. That's why I could never work up a decent loathing for him, even at moments when I knew I should; after all, why shouldn't he enjoy himself?

Now you've got me genuinely interested, actually. :) He was the Captain, he was on a starship, he got all the babes and saved the universe at least twice a week - what's left to scheme for?

in my head, Blish is my preferred canon... The special effects are better, too.This. To the power of ten. I can still recall the one ep - for the life of me I can't remember the title, but it had primitive tribes warring over a pregnant chief's wife who I think was Julie Newmar ( ... )