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So we finally got to go. And we saw it on the IMAX screen (which is not the same thing as seeing it IN Imax, because I can tell you from Dark Knight THAT is frakking amazing), but still impressive as hell.
OMG I totally choked up at the end when they dedicated the movie to both the Roddenberrys. Thank you, JJ.
I have to say that although I had qualms about HOW they were going to reboot it, I think the way they did it was ultimately the best possible solution. Canon remains canon - this is a parallel universe. That feels more respectful to me than pretending none of it ever happened (which, y'know, sometimes you need - I'm GLAD Batman Begins ignored the other Batman movies, but not for this).
Spock/Uhura? BEST THING EVER. And that would be why she wouldn't give you the time of day, Jim - she already had a certain hybrid wrapped around her finger.
ZQ? knocking it out of the park. Way to go, Sylar. I might be a bit in love. *sigh*
Chris Pine was a better Kirk than I expected. I think he had real charisma, though I think I might rather have Spock be the Captain and Kirk his XO, rather than the other way around, but obviously that wasn't going to happen.
And of course, there is no bad in Leonard Nimoy as Spock. Or giving the Final Frontier speech. I'm so glad he did it, and not one of the new cast. They'll get their turn.
With the exception of the really disastrously stupid Snow planet, it moved. I didn't even realize they hadn't introduced Scotty until Pegg appeared,
Everyone got their moment of badassery. And Pike was great and ended up in the Christopher Pike Chair.
There were so many little things I loved:
- "Admiral Archer's pet beagle" lost in space. *dies* Poor Porthos! bwahahahahaha. I think that was my favorite of all the canon nods.
- "Live long and prosper" being self-serving. hee.
- Spock taking about two seconds to figure out Kirk had met his future!alternate!self. And then beating the shit out of Kirk in a rage. he's badass.
- VULCAN NERVE PINCH FTW
- random happy Orion starfleet academy roomie (at first I thought she was Keri Russell but she was Rachel Nichols. I knew she was in the Bad Robot stable some place. And of course Grunberg was there too. For a moment I thought I heard MIchael Emerson, but I guess not - no Lost people, it looks like. I liked John Cho, but I wonder what DDK would've been like.)
- did I mention Spock/Uhura was AWESOME? Need MOAR!
Parts I didn't like as much:
Mark Lenard is and will always be Sarek to me. I'm sorry, Ben. YOu tried, and you were better than many of the so-called Vulcans on Trek series in recent years (Gary Graham, WORST VULCAN EVER) but, no. And I still hate Winona Ryder (I do not say that lightly, people, but I KNOW things), which distracted me from what should have been a sad moment. So I could've done without both Spock's parents, but that Science Academy scene was worth the price of admission. (Except for Akiva Goldsman there. WTF?)
But still. THEY BLEW UP VULCAN. BASTARDS! I hadn't been spoiled for that, and that shocked me. VULCAN. I'm still in shock from that.
I... don't even know what to do with the snow planet. If they were watching Vulcan go boom in real time, it has to be in the same solar system. And therefore, you'd think, in SOME DANGER from the black hole next door... But okay, Spock is, as we've established, a badass and obviously got the hell out of there before it got torn apart. But still the whole snow planet sequence, except for Young Kirk and Spock was a waste of space.
And why wouldn't Nero keep Spock WITH him? Maybe it's just me - since I have a very similar setup in Tartarus when Ishtar makes Asheron watch - she wants to SEE him watching his people all die. You'd think Nero would be gloating to Spock's face about it.
I think they need to ease off the Bones-isms a bit for McCoy. Karl Urban was all right, and his delivery is perfect, but there were too many nods in the script.
Hand-held works on BSG and the small screen because we can see the whole screen. I WANT IT TO DIE in movies. RIGHT NOW. It's so hard to see what the hell's going on.
Red matter? JJ your Alias bullshit is showing. I will accept mystical time traveling islands, but that? eh. not so much. I mean, c'mon, they're already trying to create mini black holes in the present -- I don't think mystical crap was the right solution there. (not to mention in TNG canon the Romulans use some kind of singularity drives anyway, IIRC. They could've just used that.)
But despite some of my rather nitpicky complaints, I enjoyed it. :)
So we finally got to go. And we saw it on the IMAX screen (which is not the same thing as seeing it IN Imax, because I can tell you from Dark Knight THAT is frakking amazing), but still impressive as hell.
OMG I totally choked up at the end when they dedicated the movie to both the Roddenberrys. Thank you, JJ.
I have to say that although I had qualms about HOW they were going to reboot it, I think the way they did it was ultimately the best possible solution. Canon remains canon - this is a parallel universe. That feels more respectful to me than pretending none of it ever happened (which, y'know, sometimes you need - I'm GLAD Batman Begins ignored the other Batman movies, but not for this).
Spock/Uhura? BEST THING EVER. And that would be why she wouldn't give you the time of day, Jim - she already had a certain hybrid wrapped around her finger.
ZQ? knocking it out of the park. Way to go, Sylar. I might be a bit in love. *sigh*
Chris Pine was a better Kirk than I expected. I think he had real charisma, though I think I might rather have Spock be the Captain and Kirk his XO, rather than the other way around, but obviously that wasn't going to happen.
And of course, there is no bad in Leonard Nimoy as Spock. Or giving the Final Frontier speech. I'm so glad he did it, and not one of the new cast. They'll get their turn.
With the exception of the really disastrously stupid Snow planet, it moved. I didn't even realize they hadn't introduced Scotty until Pegg appeared,
Everyone got their moment of badassery. And Pike was great and ended up in the Christopher Pike Chair.
There were so many little things I loved:
- "Admiral Archer's pet beagle" lost in space. *dies* Poor Porthos! bwahahahahaha. I think that was my favorite of all the canon nods.
- "Live long and prosper" being self-serving. hee.
- Spock taking about two seconds to figure out Kirk had met his future!alternate!self. And then beating the shit out of Kirk in a rage. he's badass.
- VULCAN NERVE PINCH FTW
- random happy Orion starfleet academy roomie (at first I thought she was Keri Russell but she was Rachel Nichols. I knew she was in the Bad Robot stable some place. And of course Grunberg was there too. For a moment I thought I heard MIchael Emerson, but I guess not - no Lost people, it looks like. I liked John Cho, but I wonder what DDK would've been like.)
- did I mention Spock/Uhura was AWESOME? Need MOAR!
Parts I didn't like as much:
Mark Lenard is and will always be Sarek to me. I'm sorry, Ben. YOu tried, and you were better than many of the so-called Vulcans on Trek series in recent years (Gary Graham, WORST VULCAN EVER) but, no. And I still hate Winona Ryder (I do not say that lightly, people, but I KNOW things), which distracted me from what should have been a sad moment. So I could've done without both Spock's parents, but that Science Academy scene was worth the price of admission. (Except for Akiva Goldsman there. WTF?)
But still. THEY BLEW UP VULCAN. BASTARDS! I hadn't been spoiled for that, and that shocked me. VULCAN. I'm still in shock from that.
I... don't even know what to do with the snow planet. If they were watching Vulcan go boom in real time, it has to be in the same solar system. And therefore, you'd think, in SOME DANGER from the black hole next door... But okay, Spock is, as we've established, a badass and obviously got the hell out of there before it got torn apart. But still the whole snow planet sequence, except for Young Kirk and Spock was a waste of space.
And why wouldn't Nero keep Spock WITH him? Maybe it's just me - since I have a very similar setup in Tartarus when Ishtar makes Asheron watch - she wants to SEE him watching his people all die. You'd think Nero would be gloating to Spock's face about it.
I think they need to ease off the Bones-isms a bit for McCoy. Karl Urban was all right, and his delivery is perfect, but there were too many nods in the script.
Hand-held works on BSG and the small screen because we can see the whole screen. I WANT IT TO DIE in movies. RIGHT NOW. It's so hard to see what the hell's going on.
Red matter? JJ your Alias bullshit is showing. I will accept mystical time traveling islands, but that? eh. not so much. I mean, c'mon, they're already trying to create mini black holes in the present -- I don't think mystical crap was the right solution there. (not to mention in TNG canon the Romulans use some kind of singularity drives anyway, IIRC. They could've just used that.)
But despite some of my rather nitpicky complaints, I enjoyed it. :)
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And, though perhaps not immediately obvious to a newbie (omg, how is that even possible? *g*), the fact that Uhura could become that close to Spock just says volumes about her persistence, her patience, her unwillingness to be pushed away, her intelligence, etc. Or IOW, the mere EXISTENCE of that relationship says so much about her without words.
I "know" Vulcan a lot better than I ever knew Alderasn. Harsh.
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Yeah, sorry about that. I know nothing of Vulcan, but it is hard to get to know a little foam special effect explosion, so I'll go with you there. :P
I AM remedying by newbie status I think. But, now I'll probably be one of those fans who's all 'Reboot ftw!!' no matter how much I learn to appreciate the original.
Nice new icon. :)