He's dead, Jim.
...Was noticably missing as a line, but we got 'Damn it man, I'm a doctor, not a physicist', so all is well.
Movie was a ludicrous amount of fun. I went in not really knowing what the hell to expect except perhaps nerdrage, but wow. No real nerdrage except for one point. And I'm a heavy TOS Trekkie. Best series, best cast, so much potential for suck, failure and anger - And such epic avoidance of it.
The Good: Spock, McCoy, Scotty and Chekov were all awesome and dead on. The rest were good but seemed slightly off. McCoy looked the part so well so I knew it was him the moment he came on screen and he wasn't in an obvious position on the bridge like Sulu and Chekov were. (I've managed to not see any of the trailers for this thing and don't know who anyone in it is except the guy who plays Sylar and obviously Leonard Nimoy, so.) They worked in most of everyone's catchphrases without it sounding forced or stupid. I knew the Redshit was gonna get it the instant we saw him. Going on an away mission with Big Name Characters? Check. Wearing red? Check. Ignoble death? Yup!
The Bad: "Those are... Klingons?" If they hadn't told me the bad guys were Romulans I don't think I would have figured it out. I'm too used to TNG Romulans, who were almost all military and even the civilians we saw had the requisite haircut. Amanda's death felt kind of forced - Man that transporter beam took forever, and man that rock is behaving awfully specifically in how it's getting sucked in. Blowing up the Elv- I mean the Vulcans was kind of a dick move. Poor Vulcans. The Applied Phelbotinum really needed a better name and at least some kind of explanation for what it was and why the hell Spock was carrying around several gallons when a drop is apparently enough to turn a sun into a black hole.
The Ugly: Time travel is nothing new and certainly nothing FutureSpock isn't familiar with. OK, going forward is now pointless because the future has changed, but going back in time *is* doable. Crank up the warp drive, slingshot around the sun, blow up the bad guy's ship the instant it emerges and wham, six billion people don't die. Yes, this would create a paradox and technically wipes out the crew, but there is *already a paradox* from the bad guy. He changed his past and still existed. Crew changes the past, wiping out their timeline in a heroic sacrifice to save the people of Vulcan, and either disappears as the timeline corrects itself, or continues to exist and just takes that shiny new starship of theirs and goes and sees what's out there. And I have a damned hard time believing Spock isn't going to want to alter the timeline to save his people and ensure that the versions of his friends that he knew actually exist.
In summary, awesome, but I have one huge glaring thing that keeps it from being totally awesome. But ignoring that, it was easily among the best Star Trek movies.
Man I've been so lazy with trying to write stuff. Major annoying creative dryspell. I don't even have ideas for my D&D campaign right now, heh.
Erevan is eating my ankles again. Rotten siamese.
Movie was a ludicrous amount of fun. I went in not really knowing what the hell to expect except perhaps nerdrage, but wow. No real nerdrage except for one point. And I'm a heavy TOS Trekkie. Best series, best cast, so much potential for suck, failure and anger - And such epic avoidance of it.
The Good: Spock, McCoy, Scotty and Chekov were all awesome and dead on. The rest were good but seemed slightly off. McCoy looked the part so well so I knew it was him the moment he came on screen and he wasn't in an obvious position on the bridge like Sulu and Chekov were. (I've managed to not see any of the trailers for this thing and don't know who anyone in it is except the guy who plays Sylar and obviously Leonard Nimoy, so.) They worked in most of everyone's catchphrases without it sounding forced or stupid. I knew the Redshit was gonna get it the instant we saw him. Going on an away mission with Big Name Characters? Check. Wearing red? Check. Ignoble death? Yup!
The Bad: "Those are... Klingons?" If they hadn't told me the bad guys were Romulans I don't think I would have figured it out. I'm too used to TNG Romulans, who were almost all military and even the civilians we saw had the requisite haircut. Amanda's death felt kind of forced - Man that transporter beam took forever, and man that rock is behaving awfully specifically in how it's getting sucked in. Blowing up the Elv- I mean the Vulcans was kind of a dick move. Poor Vulcans. The Applied Phelbotinum really needed a better name and at least some kind of explanation for what it was and why the hell Spock was carrying around several gallons when a drop is apparently enough to turn a sun into a black hole.
The Ugly: Time travel is nothing new and certainly nothing FutureSpock isn't familiar with. OK, going forward is now pointless because the future has changed, but going back in time *is* doable. Crank up the warp drive, slingshot around the sun, blow up the bad guy's ship the instant it emerges and wham, six billion people don't die. Yes, this would create a paradox and technically wipes out the crew, but there is *already a paradox* from the bad guy. He changed his past and still existed. Crew changes the past, wiping out their timeline in a heroic sacrifice to save the people of Vulcan, and either disappears as the timeline corrects itself, or continues to exist and just takes that shiny new starship of theirs and goes and sees what's out there. And I have a damned hard time believing Spock isn't going to want to alter the timeline to save his people and ensure that the versions of his friends that he knew actually exist.
In summary, awesome, but I have one huge glaring thing that keeps it from being totally awesome. But ignoring that, it was easily among the best Star Trek movies.
Man I've been so lazy with trying to write stuff. Major annoying creative dryspell. I don't even have ideas for my D&D campaign right now, heh.
Erevan is eating my ankles again. Rotten siamese.