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re: Any other Star Trek:TOS fans hate the Abrams stuff?
Posted on 2/16/13 at 2:44 pm to asurob1
Posted on 2/16/13 at 2:44 pm to asurob1
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I really thought JJ did a good job with capture the spirit of the Original Trek.
Rob, I have tried to be honest throughout this thread and admit this is the prevailing opinion amongst TOS fans with whom I discuss this.
I'm still asking questions. Can this team do anything like "City on the Edge of Forever"? "Amok Time"? Heck, "A Taste of Armageddon" or "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"? Maybe that's not what modern, movie-going audiences are looking for - but it is what I expect from Star Trek.
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Posted on 2/16/13 at 2:53 pm to Ace Midnight
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I'm still asking questions. Can this team do anything like "City on the Edge of Forever"? "Amok Time"? Heck, "A Taste of Armageddon" or "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"? Maybe that's not what modern, movie-going audiences are looking for - but it is what I expect from Star Trek.
Let's be fair now, did the OS movies do anything close to those episodes either?
As much as I love The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country, the rest of the OS Star Trek movies were pretty meh and not even close to being on par with the episodes you mention either. There are way more chances for a show to have extreme highs when you have a multitude of episodes to have hits and misses.
I personally think the first OS Star Trek movie was straight up garbage, and if you had asked me if they would follow it up with Wrath of Khan at the time I would have been pretty surprised. So I'd say it's pretty hard to say what the series may bring.
I will say I have high hopes for this second reboot film, as Cumberbatch is a superb actor who should make a fantastic villain as long as the script is decent.
This post was edited on 2/16/13 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 2/16/13 at 7:21 pm to Ace Midnight
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Rob, I have tried to be honest throughout this thread and admit this is the prevailing opinion amongst TOS fans with whom I discuss this.
I'm still asking questions. Can this team do anything like "City on the Edge of Forever"? "Amok Time"? Heck, "A Taste of Armageddon" or "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"? Maybe that's not what modern, movie-going audiences are looking for - but it is what I expect from Star Trek.
Not in a two hour movie. The problem here is in a tv series they have multiple episodes to develop characters. The reason you know kirk has swagger is we saw 100 plus episodes of exploring him...you can feature side characters in tv shows that you just cannot do in the movies.
To do that, Trek needs to be on television..(which it needs to be anyway). Then you will get those kind of stories.
Frankly, television writing is way way better then movie writing anymore. The wife and I watch multiple television series but have little interest in movies online or rentals because movie writing has really fallen off a long way...too much dependence on cgi and the like to move plots.
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