re: Any other Star Trek:TOS fans hate the Abrams stuff?

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there's gotta be a sort of "willing suspension of disbelief" that kicks in

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I hear you. Still not a reason to like Abrams' take though.

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So that the two versions can exist and yet not offend.

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And they clearly don't offend lots of people. I don't like being talked down to and I don't like my intelligence insulted. If I had never watched TOS, that would be one thing, as this would be my first experience with the characters. However, I like the characters in TOS and I don't like Abrams' version of the characters, so I'm done. What I'm perplexed by TOS fans' acceptance of all this is - take for example "Balance of Terror" - wonderful episode, minimum special effects, but that level of drama would just be beyond the current team's ability to pull off.

That "submarine" battle feel, along with strong characters was captured in The Wrath of Khan. Call Shatner a hokey overactor if you want, he continued to pull it off in a likeable, dare I say it, "heroic" fashion. Pine, by far the weakest actor in the new crop, can never attempt to approach that level of "hokey overacting".