No. What Abrams did was spot on. My only regret is that Chris Hemsworth was cast as Kirk's father instead of Kirk himself.
Should Abrams Have Done A Clean Reboot
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No. What Abrams did was spot on. My only regret is that Chris Hemsworth was cast as Kirk's father instead of Kirk himself.
Yeah, I agree Wulff. I'm a big fan of the JJ-films and I love a lot of what they've done, but the one thing I do think was a mistake was that they didn't more overtly unshackle themselves from continuity and stand confidently on their own feet. In retrospect, it feels like somebody got scared, and wanted to hedge their bets with the fandom. It's the same kind of thinking that led to TNG's first movie instalment being a cross-over with TOS, simply because somebody, somewhere, wanted to play it safe.
It's one of those things that in retrospect disappoints me about Trek2009. I actually like STiD more for having that natural sense of confidence about it, there's a much better sense of them all starting from a blank page in the second movie, but the 2009 movie now feels quite ham-fisted to me in the way that it went about 'passing the torch' from old to new.
They tried so hard to please everybody, but all they managed to do was create continuity snafus where a clean reboot wouldn't have had any at all.An interesting question will be, what comes after the movies? May there be a fourth, fifth, maybe sixth movie - but what comes next? The stars are obviously way too expensive, to produce a TV show with them. And after all, a movie has to perform in the theatres for a view weeks, a TV show has to pull ratings every week for years. I don't see enough potentiall in the way, the last two movies went, so I think for a TV return there has to be a cold reboot - if not a reimagination. Even more drastic than the newBSG has done.
Too early to tell. If the movie is a hit, we'll probably get a fourth installment. If it bombs, Trek may be put in mothballs again for a while. Not sure I see a scenario where it goes back to TV.
Then it probably won't resemble the Star Trek we all know.
I Would hope for one closer to the tone of the Original Trek before fanon, writers sucking all the complexity out and Roddenberry Going nuts screwed with it.
I would too. But with TV's desire to turn everything dark, I don't have high hopes.
Yeah, but TOS was pretty dark at times. Honestly all they would need to do is take TOS remove the outdated things at keep a level of seriousness and ot would probably already come off as darker and grittie.
Maybe you can reboot TNG as a show. Go with two stars to play Picard and Riker and then relative unknowns to play the rest of the cast. That would keep costs down.
Alright I'm just dreaming now.
Or do it the way TNG did it the first time. No one in the cast was big star. Stewart was mostly known for supporting roles and stage work. Frakes had been on couple of TV shows, but wasn't a star. The two "biggest" names were Burton and Wheaton.
NO!
Abrams was able to honor the past and move forward at the same time. If he had done a clean reboot fans would have rebelled.
Clean reboot or not, with Abrams & Co at the helm, for me it would have always been a
I'm surprised. I thought with your live and let live attitude that it only needs to entertain you and all is well. So I would have figured "even if it is dark" given the title of the most recent Trek movie.
So I presume "dark" on TV at least doesn't entertain you. How about DS9?
I'm surprised. I thought with your live and let live attitude that it only needs to entertain you and all is well. So I would have figured "even if it is dark" given the title of the most recent Trek movie.
I'm not one that is much for dark entertainment where the characters have no redeeming traits (nuBSG). Deep Space Nine put me to sleep for the most part.
6 years already. Phew.
I'm surprised. I thought with your live and let live attitude that it only needs to entertain you and all is well. So I would have figured "even if it is dark" given the title of the most recent Trek movie.
I'm not one that is much for dark entertainment where the characters have no redeeming traits (nuBSG). Deep Space Nine put me to sleep for the most part.
I still maintain that going dark would still match up with TOS seeing as it did go dark quite a number of times.
Of course I could totally see the TOS crew finding themselves walking into trekified versions of the plots for Alien, Aliens, The Thing, and Event Horizon.
I'm surprised. I thought with your live and let live attitude that it only needs to entertain you and all is well. So I would have figured "even if it is dark" given the title of the most recent Trek movie.
I'm not one that is much for dark entertainment where the characters have no redeeming traits (nuBSG). Deep Space Nine put me to sleep for the most part.
Agreed, but I'd argue that the difference between New Galactica and DS9 was that the folks on DS9 had redeeming traits.
I sometimes wonder if Ron Moore forgot that.
Twilight? Damn, that's harshGorn. Not enough Gorn. If the next Trek movie doesn't have a heap-load of Gorn, I'mo abandon this li'l fixation and finally watch me some Twilight.
