Whatever happened to Kirk/Spock?

[badkarma_one]

Not a rant -- just an honest question

Comments

[bant]

I think it's because McCoy was portrayed as younger and more as a bad boy than he was was in the original series.

[badkarma_one]

Maybe - Kirk is definitely a bad boy. He's the antithesis of Shatner's portrayal. I think that's the hardest thing for me to accept about the film.

[bant]

I agree with you. Kirk earned is place as captain of the Enterprise in the original series. In at least one episode, Shore Leave, he described his life in Star Fleet Academy and what he was like. It definitely was not the Kirk we saw in this film.

I liked McCoy in the film. It was an alternate portrayl of the character. The only one, I think I liked.

[amedia]

It's a good question. I've only seen the new movie once, so I was more caught up in the wild ride and looking for nods to TOS than paying attention to character chemistry and so on. (I made a list of the nods I found at http://amedia.livejournal.com/204966.html)

[badkarma_one]

That was a nice recap on your page (and I love the McCoy icon, too).

[badkarma_one]

Yeah, the Uhura thing threw me for a loop, too -- especially the PDA on the transporter pad. Whoa!

I like Kirk and Spock primarily as friends, and I love the gen relationship among the three of them. Kirk needs both Spock and McCoy for different reasons -- and Spock and McCoy need each other, too. To me, the best TOS episodes bring that to the forefront.

I tend to go through phases with slash, liking it, being indifferent, liking it, etc. I came late to slash -- I've been a Trek fan since Day One, knew about fandom since the early 70s (I attended my first con in 1975, in NYC) and got into zine fandom in 1981 -- but didn't buy my first slash zine until 1990, and didn't buy my first K/S zine until 1995.

[melodyclark]

I've never liked K/S by itself -- K/S/M is great to me. I don't even read Trek slash unless McCoy is involved because it's just of no interest to me. We all see relationships and characters differently. There's no one "right" way to see a series.

[badkarma_one]

No, there's no one right way -- I was just wondering why the K/Mc pairing was the dominant pairing for this iteration of Trek.

[melodyclark]

I don't think it is the dominant one. It's just one. I keep hearing from my friends that K/S is still number one. lol It's all a matter of perspective.

[badkarma_one]

Maybe it's just where I'm reading -- I see it all over LJ, but that's where I've been spending my time lately (time? What's that? When I wasn't making pot roast this afternoon -- and it was yummy -- I was boxing up books, tapes, and zines. I'll tell ya, this move would be a lot easier on my back if I wasn't a fan -- but then, I wouldn't be *me*).

[lasairfhiona]

I think it has everything to do with Karl Urban and his portrayal of Bones.

[badkarma_one]

His portrayal was fantastic! It was probably the best part of the movie for me -- not that I disliked the movie, not at all. But his portrayal was no less than wondrous.

[lasairfhiona]

I went to see it the first time with trek fans and we kept tapping each other's seats and poking each other with comments about the movies and the bennies to the fans.

But We all came out of there raving about Karl Urban. It's helps that he's a HUGE trek fan himself.

[badkarma_one]

I went alone opening weekend -- I was using up vacation time at work and took that Friday off. I went to the earliest showing (11:15, I think it was), and there were about 30 other people in the theater. To me, they looked of the age that they would have been sitting in front of their TVs watching the first episode back in 1966.