Pyat is Star Trekkin'!

[pyat]

I hate the new Star Trek movie already!

But I'm willing to believe I could be wrong.

And, frankly, I haven't bothered to see a new Trek movie in the theatres since Insurrection, which came out in 1998, and I didn't like it... and I didn't watch Enterprise, and I largely stopped watching Voyager after that awful mystery episode with the dog, which aired in 1995.

So, really, I'm not sure I'm exactly their target market, these days.

Darn kids.

Comments

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

Why do you hate it?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

The opening sequence with 12-year-old Jimmy Kirk doing his Matrix judo flip out the sports car just sort of bothered me so much that everything after that made me wince.

The acting, anyway. The FX look cool!

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

I despise it with all of my soul (so far), but then again, I'm really picky about how they write my favorite engineer. And Pegg can't cut it.

...and geez, he gets the most idiotic lines.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

What is it he's actually saying?

[thebitterguy]

I think he did at least as good as job as the pride of the CBC.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

In vivid contrast, I think it looks very nifty indeed (unsurprising, given how much of a neophile I am). I love the idea of TOS with an updated look and better effects. OTOH, I am less certain about the new actors. I'll need to see more than the trailer to figure that out.

Also, I'm hoping this will lead to another Star Trek RPG that I can help write :)

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, I'm hoping it doesn't, 'cause I cannot guarantee I'll have the input on it that I have now.

Not like that's a huge issue with RPGs anyway.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the look and the updated effects at all - though I'm curious as to why they're building the Enterprise on the ground. I just get the feel that the acting and script will be... subprime?

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or are there a bunch of sci fi geeks complaining about how STAR TREK is doing stuff that doesn't fall within the normal laws of physics?

Dudes! (and dudettes!) It's Star Trek! Shut the brain off and watch the pretty pictures!

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's kind of like objecting to Aesop because it has talking animals.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You sure told us, Leonard! I'll see you at the furry con next week, where we can wrangle with Rafferty over roleplaying game rules, instead. ;)

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Please. That mode of behaviour is also clearly canonical.

[bandersnitch.livejournal.com]

"So, really, I'm not sure I'm exactly their target market, these days."

You are EXACTLY their target market. Anyone who is done and tired of Trek is their target market. Also, they want to bring in new watchers who never would before.

I do find that its the most hardcore Trek fans that want to hate this, and I can't seem to find anything wrong with it.

I am excited because it is Trek and its so not all at the same time. And Scotty was more personality than engineer anyways, so Pegg nails it for me.

Time will tell.

[thebitterguy]

I don't think they care about burnt out Trek fandom. They care about the actual people out there who will go to the movie once, maybe twice, and maybe buy the DVD when it comes out.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

It's weird. I'm having basically no opinion on this. I'm all about half formed opinions and spouting off on them, but I just can't make myself care either way on this one.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

I'm only going for the eye candy. The delicious, sparkling, gigaflops of eye candy. I may watch it twice! Once for each eye! n.n

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You binocular types make me sick! Parading around with your two eyes. Bah!

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

The CGI gloss is OK, but I fear for what the storyline will yield. If there's time travel YET AGAIN, I'm turning in my phaser rifle.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Tons of time travel. Sorry.

Oh, uh... spoilers alert.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't mind the CGI at all. But the opening car chase and Matrix-flip and so on just... ug...

[neutopian.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of..something..hmmmm.. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120738/)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

No... no... stay back! Not even I want to consider the worst case (worst cast?) scenario..

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I see that movie as an annoying trend to take the shows I love and recast them, turning into inferior product. I see no need when the originals are available on DVD.

Trek hasn't been good since DS9 anyway.

[j-cat.livejournal.com]

I have to say I'm pretty optimistic. It looks fun. Very silly in places, but fun.

Was TOS not VERY silly sometimes?

(And since it seems to be the debate of the day: Building a giant, unbalanced star-ship on the ground strikes me as silly.)

[j-cat.livejournal.com]

Additional: I hear that Karl urban nails McCoy and that Spock is pretty good too.