Star Trek: Into Darkness
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asterrocWatched Star Trek: Into Darkness in a packed theater last night.
The un-spoilery version:
This movie is a lot of fun action, funny one-liners, and also reveals a lot more about the Kirk and Spock characters, giving them more depth than they had before. I'd recommend seeing it in the theaters. I'm torn about whether I liked this or Oblivion better. Oblivion was prettier and more thinky, this was more action and fun.
The spoilery version:
OMFG! So I've never watched The Wrath of Khan (though I hope to rectify that tonight) but I knew Khan's origin story well enough that I figured it out just as he was expositing about his origin and as he said his name I said it with him.
I really liked how Kirk and Spock's characters were developed more in this movie. We start to really see how Kirk would do anything for his crew, regardless of what's supposed to be right on paper. We see more examples of how Kirk's emotions running amuck can be a benefit to his team, that his intuition can help get them through scrapes where Spock's logic would be useless. Spock reveals more of his inner self as well, especially in an argument with his now-more-obvious girlfriend (Nyota) Uhura, where he basically says "it's not that I can't feel emotions, it's that I don't *want* to feel negative emotions so I block them *all* out." Again, a good job playing up his internal conflicts and honoring both parts of his heritage.
Their understanding of each other grows to the point where they're able to take on each other's roles - apparently they swap places from their original WOK roles with Kirk disabling Scotty, going into the reactor, and dying, and Spock staying on the bridge and bluffing Khan. If I were Spock's DM, I'd totally give him a bonus to his Bluff check against Khan b/c everyone knows Vulcans don't lie. And he rolls... a crit 20! Khan not believes these are his torpedos, with his crew entirely safe within them. Interesting the parallels made between Kirk's protectiveness of his crew, and Khan's of his. And of course with Kirk out of the action, it's Spock who has to chase Khan down in the dramatic climax chase scene, and it's even Spock who loses his temper at the end and continues beating Khan, much as Kirk did earlier in the film.
So yeah, I really enjoyed it. :) Go see it.
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The un-spoilery version:
This movie is a lot of fun action, funny one-liners, and also reveals a lot more about the Kirk and Spock characters, giving them more depth than they had before. I'd recommend seeing it in the theaters. I'm torn about whether I liked this or Oblivion better. Oblivion was prettier and more thinky, this was more action and fun.
The spoilery version:
OMFG! So I've never watched The Wrath of Khan (though I hope to rectify that tonight) but I knew Khan's origin story well enough that I figured it out just as he was expositing about his origin and as he said his name I said it with him.
I really liked how Kirk and Spock's characters were developed more in this movie. We start to really see how Kirk would do anything for his crew, regardless of what's supposed to be right on paper. We see more examples of how Kirk's emotions running amuck can be a benefit to his team, that his intuition can help get them through scrapes where Spock's logic would be useless. Spock reveals more of his inner self as well, especially in an argument with his now-more-obvious girlfriend (Nyota) Uhura, where he basically says "it's not that I can't feel emotions, it's that I don't *want* to feel negative emotions so I block them *all* out." Again, a good job playing up his internal conflicts and honoring both parts of his heritage.
Their understanding of each other grows to the point where they're able to take on each other's roles - apparently they swap places from their original WOK roles with Kirk disabling Scotty, going into the reactor, and dying, and Spock staying on the bridge and bluffing Khan. If I were Spock's DM, I'd totally give him a bonus to his Bluff check against Khan b/c everyone knows Vulcans don't lie. And he rolls... a crit 20! Khan not believes these are his torpedos, with his crew entirely safe within them. Interesting the parallels made between Kirk's protectiveness of his crew, and Khan's of his. And of course with Kirk out of the action, it's Spock who has to chase Khan down in the dramatic climax chase scene, and it's even Spock who loses his temper at the end and continues beating Khan, much as Kirk did earlier in the film.
So yeah, I really enjoyed it. :) Go see it.
Originally posted on Dreamwidth.
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Date: 2013-05-20 02:46 am (UTC)