I have seen Star Trek!

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My family pulled through, after all, and after I helped with some serious labor-intensive stuff this afternoon we all went out to dinner and saw the movie! It was a nice surprise.

As for the movie...I can tell you many more posts will follow. I adored it. It's one of my favorite sci fi movies in years. Splendid.

And now I can't help but wish that someone would make an all-ages Spock video to the song "Wake Up" by Arcade Fire.

Comments

[gojira007.livejournal.com]

Pretty sound logic, I'd say. For me, who's always had a sort of distant affection for "Star Trek" in its many forms, I think the confusion by deviation was almost subconscious; I wasn't thinking, "Wow, Spock and Uhura weren't like that in the Original Series", I was thinking "Wow, that came outta nowhere!" without fully realizing that the former kinda caused the latter.

Also, that Zutara icon made me LOL pretty bad. X3

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The icon was one I made for akavertigo's fanfic Tempest In A Teacup. It's a wonderful story, one of the best k/z fanfics out there, and was the first to use the AU idea of Katara being raised in the FN as a war child expatriate.

I wasn't thinking, "Wow, Spock and Uhura weren't like that in the Original Series", I was thinking "Wow, that came outta nowhere!" without fully realizing that the former kinda caused the latter.

The whole thing is a big like an AU fanfic... people are in dramatically different situations than we're familiar with, and are introduced in the midst of new relationships.

When I saw Casino Royale, I thought it was what what a Bond movie would look like if a fanfiction writer got a hold of the script and then gave that script to a great director. In many ways, I think this Star Trek has a similar feeling... it has a complicated time-travel plot but focuses heavily on character development and character interaction, and it displays aspects of characters in small, personalized ways that we're not used to from canon Star Trek...and some of those displays are not "safe" storytelling that we're used to...like Spock and Uhura's implied teacher/student relationship, or Jim's blatant smarmy jerk attitude while openly cheating. (as i recall, the fact that he cheated was not so well-known in the original canon.)

[gojira007.livejournal.com]

I recall reading bits and pieces of "Tempest in a Teacup" and being quite fond of it, but that was from before Zutara had really sunk its teeth into me and so I didn't make it a priority to finish, a mistake I hope to one day rectify. ^_^

"Casino Royale" and "Star Trek" definitely have a similar kind of feel to me, actually. I mean, obviously, they're both Reboots to their respective franchises, but a very specific kind of Reboot that I think you describe perfectly. Take the emphasis off Big, Plotty storylines and put it on the characters and their relationships, make the Action sequences Cool as Cool can be, and play around with some witty in-jokes and references. The result in both cases are Movies that have all the things that make their franchises so cool without being anchored down to what came before. It's an approach with some real merit to it, I think.