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So it's supposedly confirmed now that Cumberbatch is Khan. My reaction to that is essentially welp, they went there. >.< Cumberbatch will walk away with any role he's given, but he ain't Khan, even aside from the major and so-obvious-that-of-course-they-missed-it-entirely problem with casting him (like there were no Indian actors with the chops??) as a guy named Khan Noonian Singh.
I'm also not impressed with seeing Carol Marcus in her underwear in the trailer. I'll believe in Abrams's equal-opportunity Trek when all the male characters show up in their underwear too and Amanda and Winona ARE NAMED ONSCREEN, UNLIKE IN THE LAST MOVIE, WHERE THEY WERE ONLY DESCRIBED AS "___'S MOTHER" AND "___'S WIFE" (AND OH, VARIOUS SLURS ALSO). And he really needs to stop talking about Spock and Uhura, because "we're exploring what she could possibly see in a guy like that, but it's obvious what he sees in her, she's Zoe Saldana" is... you know what, I'm just going to stop talking about this now, because better people than me have explained what's wrong with this picture.
And I don't know whether to indulge my hopes that the new movie will get into the social and cultural changes caused by the disasters in the previous one (they LOST AN ENTIRE PLANET AND ALMOST AN ENTIRE STARFLEET GRAD CLASS, not to mention a huge cut of their fleet?? If the neighboring empires didn't overrun the Federation immediately, what kind of changes might there be? Answer: LOTS). Sure, I want explosions and high-speed space dogfights and nemeses and saving-the-world, but our heroes aren't out on the edge of the known where there's no authority but themselves (which, I think, is one of newTrek's mistakes). They can save their homeworld from being destroyed, but they can't save it from the changes wrought by near-destruction, and that's going to affect all the human crew-members far more than the planet-of-the-week affected them in TOS, and I can't care about their characterization or the world they live in if that's ignored. But on the other hand, Yet Another Post-Apocalyptic Movie. I can't win.
And I'm trying to ignore the rumors that McCoy won't have much of a role, because he's the only one whom I feel really channels his TOS counterpart, and absent that I really have very little reason to watch Into Darkness.
In conclusion: eh.
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I'm also not impressed with seeing Carol Marcus in her underwear in the trailer. I'll believe in Abrams's equal-opportunity Trek when all the male characters show up in their underwear too and Amanda and Winona ARE NAMED ONSCREEN, UNLIKE IN THE LAST MOVIE, WHERE THEY WERE ONLY DESCRIBED AS "___'S MOTHER" AND "___'S WIFE" (AND OH, VARIOUS SLURS ALSO). And he really needs to stop talking about Spock and Uhura, because "we're exploring what she could possibly see in a guy like that, but it's obvious what he sees in her, she's Zoe Saldana" is... you know what, I'm just going to stop talking about this now, because better people than me have explained what's wrong with this picture.
And I don't know whether to indulge my hopes that the new movie will get into the social and cultural changes caused by the disasters in the previous one (they LOST AN ENTIRE PLANET AND ALMOST AN ENTIRE STARFLEET GRAD CLASS, not to mention a huge cut of their fleet?? If the neighboring empires didn't overrun the Federation immediately, what kind of changes might there be? Answer: LOTS). Sure, I want explosions and high-speed space dogfights and nemeses and saving-the-world, but our heroes aren't out on the edge of the known where there's no authority but themselves (which, I think, is one of newTrek's mistakes). They can save their homeworld from being destroyed, but they can't save it from the changes wrought by near-destruction, and that's going to affect all the human crew-members far more than the planet-of-the-week affected them in TOS, and I can't care about their characterization or the world they live in if that's ignored. But on the other hand, Yet Another Post-Apocalyptic Movie. I can't win.
And I'm trying to ignore the rumors that McCoy won't have much of a role, because he's the only one whom I feel really channels his TOS counterpart, and absent that I really have very little reason to watch Into Darkness.
In conclusion: eh.
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comments there so far.