Just got back from seeing it, finally.
Yes, much win here. Our friend Joe Avins is a bit obsessive about his Trek movies, and reportedly he didn't like it, so Peggy and I were trying to figure out why and failing. We just enjoyed the hell out of it. I especially loved all the little mythology gags, like Pike in a wheelchair at the end. JJ Abrams has repeatedly said that he got the job because he wasn't an obsessive Trekkie, but someone connected to the production was, to have put all those little bits in.
I had only two real quibbles, besides the rubber science of course. First was, no defenses of any kind around Earth? And second, Kirk seemed to go from cadet on academic probation to (real) Captain in, what, a few weeks? Surely it couldn't, wouldn't happen that fast, even with battlefield promotions.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Yes, much win here. Our friend Joe Avins is a bit obsessive about his Trek movies, and reportedly he didn't like it, so Peggy and I were trying to figure out why and failing. We just enjoyed the hell out of it. I especially loved all the little mythology gags, like Pike in a wheelchair at the end. JJ Abrams has repeatedly said that he got the job because he wasn't an obsessive Trekkie, but someone connected to the production was, to have put all those little bits in.
I had only two real quibbles, besides the rubber science of course. First was, no defenses of any kind around Earth? And second, Kirk seemed to go from cadet on academic probation to (real) Captain in, what, a few weeks? Surely it couldn't, wouldn't happen that fast, even with battlefield promotions.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.