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You get that from Star Trek, really?
I didn't, but I think the marketing seemed to take that stance with all the "This ain't your papa's Star Trek" business. I also came at the movie originally as someone generally unfamiliar with the old series, so I had a different perspective than Strega.
I also came at the movie originally as someone generally unfamiliar with the old series, so I had a different perspective than Strega.
I'm not yet sure what Strega's opinion was, but I came at it from the perspective of someone who's seen all of Trek except Enterprise, and I didn't get a superior attitude from it. Did anyone else?
I'm not sure how I would describe Blacksnake Moan, but "man chains woman" isn't it. That definitely wasn't what I came away thinking about the movie.
The air of "We're going to do Star Trek right!" that I picked up from the marketing really annoyed me. I've always felt that all the alternate universe stuff was put in to prevent the legions of original Trek fans from confiscating and destroying all the prints.
No, I didn't like it. Trek: 90210.
Edit: Because if the original story line was good enough, they could have set up a new bunch of cadets following in the old guard's footsteps, then they could have the young, pretty, hop-in-the-sack kids to play with.
I didn't much like the new approach to Trek, but it seemed to me they were bending over backwards to respect what came before.
I didn't get that from the marketing, Connie. I got "We are going to do it ANEW" but that did not imply that they thought the originals were inferior. There was a lot of reverence for the original series in it for me.
Oh, and I loved it and TOS.
Trek has tried new characters before, a bunch of times. But even with the luxury of series behind them, the movies didn't pull. The only way to use the original golden characters and not mess up continuity was to go something like they did.
This is one of those Tom Bombadill things, isn't it?
What's a Tom Bombadil thing? Surely not an implication he belonged in the film?
Tom bombadil is where I permanently stopped reading.
No, just a difference in people's perceptions of what is and what isn't sacrosanct when turning text into film. Some people's untouchable institutions are other people's streamlining, or fodder for updating. Can't please everybody.