Tuesday, 6. January 2015
Star Trek Into Darkness and what was wrong with it
ell, 17:02h
I'm not going to talk about all those little things that I didn't like. I could say how the Enterprise looked completely not like it should, or how the Admiral's Unifors remindet me far too much of those in the motion picture (where the Admiral's uniforms were the only ones that didn't look really bad), or how hiding the Enterprise in an ocean was the worst idea ever, because how did they ever get in there unnoticed? (Not mentioning that there's the problem of Archimedes in the bathtub...)
No, my poblem is with Uhura and (even more) Spock. I know there are many who have a big problem with the whole love-story thing, but with I'm quite OK with that, with the fact that they're a couple that is. I find it completely OK that someone might have a relationship if they are working together for who knows how long. We have seen that in the original series already (given it was redshirts then) and I don't have a problem with the fact that it's not Kirk for once, but Spock and Uhura.
For me the real problem is not that they have a relationship, but how. While in the '09 movie it was still very subtle and controle, it is as if in Into Darkness the whole thing explodet into a flaming romance, and that is so not like Spock. I understand that the whole loosing his planet and his mother and what-not-all thing made him different to the 'old' Spock, but still he had the same Vulcan training, controling his emotions and embracing logic. And I don't think he would give up that control so completely, as to passionately kiss his love in public! I mean, even most of us flaved, emotional humans would find two people kissing like that in public rather embarrassing.
This is just so not like Spock, no matter how you argue with me about this whole he's half-human and he does have emotions thing. We've seen the whole Human-Vulcan relationship thing at least twice over in Star Trek and they always managed to work it out fine, so I don't see, why they had to screw it up like this now. I just hope they fix that in the next one, because I really don't want to have the two of them constantly getting into one anothers hair once they're on the five year mission.
And as Sarek already put it about himself and Amanda (and I hope I translate this halfways correctly):
She might be fighting, but he's only discussing.
No, my poblem is with Uhura and (even more) Spock. I know there are many who have a big problem with the whole love-story thing, but with I'm quite OK with that, with the fact that they're a couple that is. I find it completely OK that someone might have a relationship if they are working together for who knows how long. We have seen that in the original series already (given it was redshirts then) and I don't have a problem with the fact that it's not Kirk for once, but Spock and Uhura.
For me the real problem is not that they have a relationship, but how. While in the '09 movie it was still very subtle and controle, it is as if in Into Darkness the whole thing explodet into a flaming romance, and that is so not like Spock. I understand that the whole loosing his planet and his mother and what-not-all thing made him different to the 'old' Spock, but still he had the same Vulcan training, controling his emotions and embracing logic. And I don't think he would give up that control so completely, as to passionately kiss his love in public! I mean, even most of us flaved, emotional humans would find two people kissing like that in public rather embarrassing.
This is just so not like Spock, no matter how you argue with me about this whole he's half-human and he does have emotions thing. We've seen the whole Human-Vulcan relationship thing at least twice over in Star Trek and they always managed to work it out fine, so I don't see, why they had to screw it up like this now. I just hope they fix that in the next one, because I really don't want to have the two of them constantly getting into one anothers hair once they're on the five year mission.
And as Sarek already put it about himself and Amanda (and I hope I translate this halfways correctly):
She might be fighting, but he's only discussing.
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