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Oh my god! Oh my god. Oh. My. God.
That movie was amazing. I was fangirling throughout the entire thing.
When I heard that it was going to be an alternate dimension I thought they were just going to use that to make up for any amount of canon they bump out of the way, but the fact that they centered the whole movie around it was just brilliant. I loved it.
It was like, fanfiction. Or at least, what I love about fanfiction: taking the characters you love and changing everything around them to see all the possibilities that could happen. In this, Kirk was an angry, self destructive but brilliant young man who was going nowhere instead of the Starfleet Golden Boy he was in canon, Scotty was placed in some planet in the middle of nowhere, and Kirk and Spock hated each other from the get go. And yet, despite that, they still band together and come to form the crew that we all know and love.
Amazing.
And to see old Spock, and to have him talk about the strong bond between him and Jim was just...perfect. I'm so glad they did that, because you never get to see Spock's reaction to Kirk's death in the movies, so to have him meet and talk to a younger version of Spock and then go out of his way to make sure he and the younger him became friends... I think that was a great closure to their relationship. Which I've always felt was needed because I've always somewhat thought that Star Trek was really just a love story between Kirk and Spock. (And I don't necessarily mean romantic love, it can be bromance or whatever.) The most touching moments of series were always between or about those two--in Amok Time, when thinking he killed Kirk knocked Spock right back into his senses, his reaction to seeing Kirk alive afterwards; the time when Spock and Bones were in a cage and Kirk was fighting (was it in some kind of arena in a new Rome? God, its been so long. I need to rewatch the series again) and Bones was assuring Spock that Kirk would be alright; in The Motion Picture, when Spock nearly dies from melding with V'ger and decides that he didn't want life without emotion; and of course his dying scene at the end of Wrath of Khan, and Kirk risking everything to save him in the next movie; and then the scene at the end where Spock remembers him--it goes on and on and on. And I am so happy that the bond between remained a huge part of the story line.
The ONE THING I was VERY unhappy with was the Uhura/Spock thing.
I mean, what the hell?
I get it, it's funny that in this alternate time line, Kirk doesn't get the girl. Spock does. But still: what?
I just don't think it is realistic. We saw how very unromantic Spock usually was in the series, and though yes, I know, this is in an alternate dimension, I don't see how the change ended up effecting him in that way. I mean, the destruction of that one ship didn't alter the beginning of his life too drastically: his father was still an ambassador, still married a human woman, and Spock still chose to go into Starfleet--all this is canon. So why is he suddenly accepting of a romantic relationship when in the series, years after this it took personality altering spores to loosen him up enough to fall in love? Now, if Uhura and Spock had a relationship later on in The Original Series, and the altered timeline just brought them together sooner, okay, I could accept that. But there was never any evidence of that. Sure they were friends, but any time there was any romantic/sexual tension involving Uhura it was usually with Kirk--unless you count the time with Scotty in movie V that was never mentioned again.
But other than that, I just loved this movie. Absolutely loved it.
I have to go see it again.
I don't care if every other movie I want to see this year turns out horrible, this movie made my year.
That movie was amazing. I was fangirling throughout the entire thing.
When I heard that it was going to be an alternate dimension I thought they were just going to use that to make up for any amount of canon they bump out of the way, but the fact that they centered the whole movie around it was just brilliant. I loved it.
It was like, fanfiction. Or at least, what I love about fanfiction: taking the characters you love and changing everything around them to see all the possibilities that could happen. In this, Kirk was an angry, self destructive but brilliant young man who was going nowhere instead of the Starfleet Golden Boy he was in canon, Scotty was placed in some planet in the middle of nowhere, and Kirk and Spock hated each other from the get go. And yet, despite that, they still band together and come to form the crew that we all know and love.
Amazing.
And to see old Spock, and to have him talk about the strong bond between him and Jim was just...perfect. I'm so glad they did that, because you never get to see Spock's reaction to Kirk's death in the movies, so to have him meet and talk to a younger version of Spock and then go out of his way to make sure he and the younger him became friends... I think that was a great closure to their relationship. Which I've always felt was needed because I've always somewhat thought that Star Trek was really just a love story between Kirk and Spock. (And I don't necessarily mean romantic love, it can be bromance or whatever.) The most touching moments of series were always between or about those two--in Amok Time, when thinking he killed Kirk knocked Spock right back into his senses, his reaction to seeing Kirk alive afterwards; the time when Spock and Bones were in a cage and Kirk was fighting (was it in some kind of arena in a new Rome? God, its been so long. I need to rewatch the series again) and Bones was assuring Spock that Kirk would be alright; in The Motion Picture, when Spock nearly dies from melding with V'ger and decides that he didn't want life without emotion; and of course his dying scene at the end of Wrath of Khan, and Kirk risking everything to save him in the next movie; and then the scene at the end where Spock remembers him--it goes on and on and on. And I am so happy that the bond between remained a huge part of the story line.
The ONE THING I was VERY unhappy with was the Uhura/Spock thing.
I mean, what the hell?
I get it, it's funny that in this alternate time line, Kirk doesn't get the girl. Spock does. But still: what?
I just don't think it is realistic. We saw how very unromantic Spock usually was in the series, and though yes, I know, this is in an alternate dimension, I don't see how the change ended up effecting him in that way. I mean, the destruction of that one ship didn't alter the beginning of his life too drastically: his father was still an ambassador, still married a human woman, and Spock still chose to go into Starfleet--all this is canon. So why is he suddenly accepting of a romantic relationship when in the series, years after this it took personality altering spores to loosen him up enough to fall in love? Now, if Uhura and Spock had a relationship later on in The Original Series, and the altered timeline just brought them together sooner, okay, I could accept that. But there was never any evidence of that. Sure they were friends, but any time there was any romantic/sexual tension involving Uhura it was usually with Kirk--unless you count the time with Scotty in movie V that was never mentioned again.
But other than that, I just loved this movie. Absolutely loved it.
I have to go see it again.
I don't care if every other movie I want to see this year turns out horrible, this movie made my year.
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That reminds me that a rerun is airing today.
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And yay for Star Trek reruns, that's how I fell in love with the show. I'm far too young to have watched any of them when they aired, I started watching them during one of those SciFi Marathons. :)
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I saw ST in my youth (five, six years old maybe?) whenever I could on Saturday afternoon/evening. Saturday was bath-day and ST day *g*. Too bad that there was also a sport report around the same time so we weren't always lucky enough to see it. But later there were reruns. And I was able to get the whole classic series on video in English when it was aired on Sky before Sky became a Pay TV. Though I must say it was a bit scary back then sometimes when I watched it first. At last one episode (I don't recall the name but I remember the lights that scared me. Not any longer but back then; no clue why, it was only scary the first time I saw it. /*end ramble*
But I must say I really enjoy the reruns one TV station has at the moment - they declared May to be ST Month :)
I wanted to post this yesterday but I lost my text when my IE crashed. I think it will go through now :)
Have a good Sunday.