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eirenicalSaw the new Star Trek movie Saturday night. I... still don't entirely have a handle on how I feel about it. *grumbles* I will say this, though. On some level, I was so disturbed by the things I liked about the movie that when I got home at 1 AM, I had to go watch "City on the Edge of Forever" to get the movie out of my head. I left that movie feeling like I'd just watched my best friend die. Which makes no sense, because I actually did enjoy the movie. The new cast was frickin' awesome and the new character interpretations, though in some cases similar, were different yet appropriate for this new century. I mean... anyone who didn't love the way Uhura *coughs* got assigned *coughs* to the Enterprise... *eg* And the Uhura/Spock moments were unbelievably sweet and make sense. Spock accepting touching/PDAs, though... that made me massively twitch. Again, I understand it's a new interpretation of the character that, again, is appropriate for this century, but still... it disturbed me.
Even though I know that this is alternate timeline... I guess the flat out truth is that in the past, whenever a new "wrong" timeline has subsumed the current one, our intrepid band of heroes would go back and fix it. This time, the universe got fucked seven ways to Sunday... and no one cares. No one's going to fix it. Even "Spock Prime" is just accepting things the way that they are. You can bet your ass that if it had been Jim Kirk who had been flung back in time, he'd have moved Heaven and Earth to set time back on its appropriate path. That won't happen this time. And so, even though I do admit that I liked the movie, the new cast did some serious justice to the characters ((Oh Karl Urban, Hell Yeah! I knew I loved you for a reason! *_* *_*)), and the new wonderful tension/angst-ridden start to Kirk and Spock's friendship will give me many pleasant thoughts *waggles eyebrows* ((though, damn it!, he and Uhura are just so wonderful, I don't think I want them split up... *sigh*))...
...I still feel like this isn't my Trek. I feel like an impostor killed my Star Trek and slipped into it's place. And not only did no one notice... everyone welcomed the change. Thus this feeling of mourning. But the thing that's causing me the most angst... there's a significant part of me that also likes this new little sister to my favorite show. ;_; Thus the feelings of conflict. I want to like the new Trek, because it really did live up to the original...
I'll get there. Eventually. :-P
Even though I know that this is alternate timeline... I guess the flat out truth is that in the past, whenever a new "wrong" timeline has subsumed the current one, our intrepid band of heroes would go back and fix it. This time, the universe got fucked seven ways to Sunday... and no one cares. No one's going to fix it. Even "Spock Prime" is just accepting things the way that they are. You can bet your ass that if it had been Jim Kirk who had been flung back in time, he'd have moved Heaven and Earth to set time back on its appropriate path. That won't happen this time. And so, even though I do admit that I liked the movie, the new cast did some serious justice to the characters ((Oh Karl Urban, Hell Yeah! I knew I loved you for a reason! *_* *_*)), and the new wonderful tension/angst-ridden start to Kirk and Spock's friendship will give me many pleasant thoughts *waggles eyebrows* ((though, damn it!, he and Uhura are just so wonderful, I don't think I want them split up... *sigh*))...
...I still feel like this isn't my Trek. I feel like an impostor killed my Star Trek and slipped into it's place. And not only did no one notice... everyone welcomed the change. Thus this feeling of mourning. But the thing that's causing me the most angst... there's a significant part of me that also likes this new little sister to my favorite show. ;_; Thus the feelings of conflict. I want to like the new Trek, because it really did live up to the original...
I'll get there. Eventually. :-P
