So I Saw Star Trek
Thoughts on Star Trek, in no particular order:
Needed more Uhura! But that would be true of any movie that wasn't Nyota Uhura Does All The Things. The parts that she did have were stone-cold awesome though (and a big step from the first movie). She needs to work on her Relationship Conversation Timing, but her Shooting Bad Guys in the Face timing is impeccable.
Cumberface was better than expected - I found his total deadpan in the first half of the movie kind of hysterical. On the fence about I feel about the whitewashing. Obviously it is an issue, but at the same time, with his speech about savagery and doing the warrior-y things that Starfleet needs, I think that might have been kind of unfortunate coming from an ~exotic~ non-white character? So IDK.
That whitewashing aside, I did appreciate how many of the background shots on the Enterprise and in London/SF were full of women and non-white people. The future: not lily-white apparently!
Was there an android on the bridge? The new timeline is so weird.
Chekov in his little engineering goggles was insufferably adorable. Poor boy, he was not having a good time of it.
I still ship Sulu/Chekov like burning! Which in this movie was supported almost solely by Sulu's sad little face when he realizes he won't get to sit next to Chekov for the rest of the mission, but that's as much as we got last time, so.
Other things that I ship: Spock/Uhura, Kirk/Spock, Kirk/Spock/Uhura, Kirk/Bones, Kirk/Pike(/daddy issues), Kirk/Marcus/EVEN MORE DADDY ISSUES, dubiously consensual Kirk/Khan (where Khan is getting on his knees to demonstrate his temporary trustworthiness, or where Khan is putting Kirk in his place, I'm not picky). I also kind of would like to see Kirk/the entire Captains meeting? Apparently I have a thing for Kirk and messed up relationships with older men.
Kirk still bleeds very pretty. He should do that as much as possible.
I really liked that they opened with Kirk actually fucking up and getting called out on it. I think that was the bigger complaint I saw at the end of the 1st movie - that they put a cadet fresh out of the academy with two days worth of command experience in charge of an entire ship long-term and thought that would end well? And surprise, he thinks the rules don't apply to him and that he can survive anything. I was very mad at him for bitching out Spock for tattling on him to Pike, because, dude, it is not Spock's job to let you get away with murder. If you are going to ignore the rules, you have to accept that you might get in trouble! But having actual consequences and character growth come out of that was nice. I also liked that the thing that seemed to hurt Kirk more than losing his command was the thought of losing The Enterprise. Because that is still the truest romance of the series.
I would like to see a lot of AUs where Kirk does actually stay Pike's First Officer and Spock goes to the other ship. And Kirk finds that there is a lot he still needs to learn about being a captain and that having a mentor is a good thing. And Spock is so used to having his semi-fond semi-antagonist relationship with Kirk that he ends up a disciplinary problem for his new Captain, who does not appreciate being second-guessed and snarked at that much.
All in all, A++ would fangirl again.
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Needed more Uhura! But that would be true of any movie that wasn't Nyota Uhura Does All The Things. The parts that she did have were stone-cold awesome though (and a big step from the first movie). She needs to work on her Relationship Conversation Timing, but her Shooting Bad Guys in the Face timing is impeccable.
Cumberface was better than expected - I found his total deadpan in the first half of the movie kind of hysterical. On the fence about I feel about the whitewashing. Obviously it is an issue, but at the same time, with his speech about savagery and doing the warrior-y things that Starfleet needs, I think that might have been kind of unfortunate coming from an ~exotic~ non-white character? So IDK.
That whitewashing aside, I did appreciate how many of the background shots on the Enterprise and in London/SF were full of women and non-white people. The future: not lily-white apparently!
Was there an android on the bridge? The new timeline is so weird.
Chekov in his little engineering goggles was insufferably adorable. Poor boy, he was not having a good time of it.
I still ship Sulu/Chekov like burning! Which in this movie was supported almost solely by Sulu's sad little face when he realizes he won't get to sit next to Chekov for the rest of the mission, but that's as much as we got last time, so.
Other things that I ship: Spock/Uhura, Kirk/Spock, Kirk/Spock/Uhura, Kirk/Bones, Kirk/Pike(/daddy issues), Kirk/Marcus/EVEN MORE DADDY ISSUES, dubiously consensual Kirk/Khan (where Khan is getting on his knees to demonstrate his temporary trustworthiness, or where Khan is putting Kirk in his place, I'm not picky). I also kind of would like to see Kirk/the entire Captains meeting? Apparently I have a thing for Kirk and messed up relationships with older men.
Kirk still bleeds very pretty. He should do that as much as possible.
I really liked that they opened with Kirk actually fucking up and getting called out on it. I think that was the bigger complaint I saw at the end of the 1st movie - that they put a cadet fresh out of the academy with two days worth of command experience in charge of an entire ship long-term and thought that would end well? And surprise, he thinks the rules don't apply to him and that he can survive anything. I was very mad at him for bitching out Spock for tattling on him to Pike, because, dude, it is not Spock's job to let you get away with murder. If you are going to ignore the rules, you have to accept that you might get in trouble! But having actual consequences and character growth come out of that was nice. I also liked that the thing that seemed to hurt Kirk more than losing his command was the thought of losing The Enterprise. Because that is still the truest romance of the series.
I would like to see a lot of AUs where Kirk does actually stay Pike's First Officer and Spock goes to the other ship. And Kirk finds that there is a lot he still needs to learn about being a captain and that having a mentor is a good thing. And Spock is so used to having his semi-fond semi-antagonist relationship with Kirk that he ends up a disciplinary problem for his new Captain, who does not appreciate being second-guessed and snarked at that much.
All in all, A++ would fangirl again.
This entry was originally posted at http://masterofmidgets.dreamwidth.org/281088.html. You can also comment there using OpenID.