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CdrMike
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Jun-11-17, 12:51 PM (EDT) |
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17. "RE: randomly, re New Formula Star Trek:"
In response to message #0
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I'd just like to note for the record that I, one of this board's bigger Trek nitpickers, am not taking part in the discussion about timelines and quantum realities. That's a level of nerdiness that I can't descend to without spelunking gear. That said, my biggest problem with NuTrek is probably their reliance upon fans having read the comics/visual novels to get the half of the plot that didn't make it into the film. SFDebris noted this with Star Trek, how the writers had come up with this detailed and emotional backstory for Nero that was fleshed out in the comics, which could have made him the strongest villain the franchise had seen since Khan. But because you don't get credit for what you didn't include in the story, he just comes off as a random bald emo Romulan. Same deal with Khan in Into Darkness, the writers came up with a detailed storyline to explain how Khan had started out as the Indian genocidal dictator that we all knew, before a round of brainwashing and cosmetic surgery turned him into Lt. John Harrison. Likewise they detailed his mission to Qo'nos, using the transwarp beaming equation to set a bomb that blew up Praxis and devastated the Klingon population. But none of that made it into the film, so we get a pasty white British man playing a character we all remember well being played by the tanned and muscular physique of a Mexican actor. And that's NuTrek's biggest problem in a nutshell: The movies make great popcorn flicks with action and comedy aplenty. But like popcorn at the theater, a few hours later its stale and flavorless. You remember the humor, you remember the action, but the story itself was largely empty air. All I'm saying is that next NuTrek film needs more to it than navel-gazing about why Jim Kirk wants to be captain. Or the on-again/off-again romance of Spock and Uhura. Put the character development up on the big screen, don't leave it stuck in the comic books that only fans bother to check out. This is especially grating to those of us in the fanbase who spent the better part of the last 3 decades being told that if something didn't appear on-screen, then it wasn't canon to the franchise unless it appeared in a licensed book/magazine. -------------------------- CdrMike, Overwatch Reject "You know, the world could always use more heroes." - Tracer, Overwatch |
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