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redfiona99) wrote2012-12-27 06:28 pm
redfiona99) wrote2012-12-27 06:28 pm
Yet More Grumbling About The New Trek Trailer
My problem with Nu! Trek 2, or at least it's trailer, is that my feelings follow the pattern of those old jokes that go
Statement - boo!
Twist on statement - yay!
like this one (http://www.schooljokes.com/school_holidays/1.shtml) but the wrong way round.
It's things like:
There's no lens flare in the trailer - yay!
Instead it looks like its been filmed by a 12 year old with no access to steady cam - boo!
Cumberbatch is in it - yay!
They're making him put on a stupid growly voice when he can sound plenty menacing without it - boo!
I've heard a rumour that Cumberbatch is actually playing Gary Mitchell - yay!
But that makes no sense because the only reason that plot worked was because Mitchell was Kirk's best friend at the Academy and he wasn't in this 'verse - boo!
It's a woman who saves the day in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" - yay!
There's no way that that's staying the same even if they go with this plot - boo!
Wrath of Kahn is a good film, if that's what they're going with - yay!
So what on Eartch are they going to add - boo!
Rewatching the trailer with ex-housemate P has suggested that it's Kirk in the radiation chamber - yay!
There's sadly no way they'll kill Kirk off - boo!
And that last bit, much though my dislike for nu "I have Daddy Issues like all of JJ Abrams's characters" Kirk may be a little too obvious, is important. We know they're not going to kill these characters off (well none of the main three, Cho, Pegg, Yelchin and Ms Saldana, your characters I worry for). There is no peril here.
Statement - boo!
Twist on statement - yay!
like this one (http://www.schooljokes.com/school_holidays/1.shtml) but the wrong way round.
It's things like:
There's no lens flare in the trailer - yay!
Instead it looks like its been filmed by a 12 year old with no access to steady cam - boo!
Cumberbatch is in it - yay!
They're making him put on a stupid growly voice when he can sound plenty menacing without it - boo!
I've heard a rumour that Cumberbatch is actually playing Gary Mitchell - yay!
But that makes no sense because the only reason that plot worked was because Mitchell was Kirk's best friend at the Academy and he wasn't in this 'verse - boo!
It's a woman who saves the day in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" - yay!
There's no way that that's staying the same even if they go with this plot - boo!
Wrath of Kahn is a good film, if that's what they're going with - yay!
So what on Eartch are they going to add - boo!
Rewatching the trailer with ex-housemate P has suggested that it's Kirk in the radiation chamber - yay!
There's sadly no way they'll kill Kirk off - boo!
And that last bit, much though my dislike for nu "I have Daddy Issues like all of JJ Abrams's characters" Kirk may be a little too obvious, is important. We know they're not going to kill these characters off (well none of the main three, Cho, Pegg, Yelchin and Ms Saldana, your characters I worry for). There is no peril here.