oh..this WILL happen SPOILERS!!!

[RobertScorpio]

POSSIBLE SPOILERS..BEWARE!!!




You can see this coming from a MILE away...

Its opening day for TREK XI. The night before, Entertainment tonight will go out to a local theatre to interview the fans who are lined up for the first showing the next day. Some of them will be dressed up like Klingons or Romulans, which is cool. (But not that strange fan with the black cat on his shoulder who seems to show up every where dressed as spock.)

Any way, the reporter will ask something like "How do you think this movie will do?" and the millions of people watching Entertainment tonight will hear this answer..."Its going to suck. They have changed the ship, Romulans will be seen by Starfleet which will go against canon, and captain kirk will be some horny dude who is driven by angst chasing after uhura.. they have ruined Trek!!!"

The normal people watching that interview will all come away with the general impression that I shared in another thread..

TREK+FAN= GEEK.

I will be sure to avoid Entertainment tonight the night before...I wont go to the first showing because I don't want to hear it from fans like that...I will go the next day, with so called normal folk. Because if the normal folk don't like this next TREK movie? Game over...and it is their responce I am looking most forward too experiencing...

Rob
Scorpio

 

[MattJC]

Robert, you're still going to be a geek like the rest of us on these boards whether this movie is a success or not. Hanging around "normal folks" isn't going to change that.

 

[Dale]

I disagree. Coverage of events like this are edited down to portray the excitement of the crowd leading up to the film, and only positive statements and a lot of people waving and going "Woooooooo!" will be shown. If "geekiness" is portrayed at all, it will be portrayed by costumed people flashing the LL&P sign.

None of the so-called controversies, of import only to people like us, really, will be touched on. The word "canon" will not be uttered in the broadcast.

 

[Captain X]

If someone thinks the movie will suck, why would they be standing in line for hours to go see it opening night?

And people already think all Star Trek fans are nerds anyway, so what are you worried about?

 

[archeryguy1701]

If someone is going to be standing in line before the movie and listing everything they think will be wrong with the movie, then I think there are bigger issues at play than the Enterprise looking different...

 

[Dale]

I'm sure more than one poster here will be standing grimly in their local line, arms crossed, wearing a black armband mourning the imminent "death of Star Trek," waiting to be proven right about the magnitude of suckage and canon violation in the film, eager to get back here and post myriad variations on "I told you so!"

I just don't think they will get any TV airtime.

 

[Gepard]

I just don't think they will get any TV airtime.

Hey, don't discount Triumph the Comic Insult Dog so readily.

 

[Dale]

I just don't think they will get any TV airtime.

Hey, don't discount Triumph the Comic Insult Dog so readily.

"Oh yeah, Star Trek was a GREAT movie..."

 

[Dale]

I just don't think they will get any TV airtime.

Hey, don't discount Triumph the Comic Insult Dog so readily.

"Oh yeah, Star Trek was a GREAT movie..."

FOR ME TO POOP ON!

 

[Aragorn]

If someone thinks the movie will suck, why would they be standing in line for hours to go see it opening night?

How many of the repetitive unconditional bashers here will watch this movie more times than the biggest fans?

 

[Gepard]

How many of the repetitive unconditional bashers here will watch this movie more times than the biggest fans?

Yup. For example: TGT watched every damn Star Trek film. Including Nemesis.

 

[number6]

If someone thinks the movie will suck, why would they be standing in line for hours to go see it opening night?

How many of the repetitive unconditional bashers here will watch this movie more times than the biggest fans?

They'll be there in the front row with notebooks on their lap.

 

[GodThingFormerly]

Yup. For example: TGT watched every damn Star Trek film. Including Nemesis.

Of course I did, and multiple times in the case of the TOS films. How could I savage them in picoscopic detail otherwise? As for ST:XI, I'll definitely give the abomination's theatrical run a miss but will consider a 720p rental whenever it shows up on iTunes/Apple TV.

TGT

 

[Dale]

They'll be there in the front row with notebooks on their lap.

...and I'll be three rows behind them, throwing wet Jujubees.

 

[Gepard]

Of course I did, and multiple times in the case of the TOS films. How could I savage them in picoscopic detail otherwise?

Hey, I wasn't expecting anything less. At least that puts you above the folks who'll savage anything without a shred of evidence.

-Malakai, liking ILM's classic Trek film work.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Robert, you're still going to be a geek like the rest of us on these boards whether this movie is a success or not. Hanging around "normal folks" isn't going to change that.

Yes...I resigned my self to that years ago...
Rob

 

[RobertScorpio]

I disagree. Coverage of events like this are edited down to portray the excitement of the crowd leading up to the film, and only positive statements and a lot of people waving and going "Woooooooo!" will be shown. If "geekiness" is portrayed at all, it will be portrayed by costumed people flashing the LL&P sign.

None of the so-called controversies, of import only to people like us, really, will be touched on. The word "canon" will not be uttered in the broadcast.

I have seen this before. The night before Nemesis came out they went out and sure enough found seven star trek fans waiting in line and they uttered foolish things...my wife shook her head and asked if all star trek fans were like that? "Canon" was uttered...

Rob

 

[RobertScorpio]

I'm sure more than one poster here will be standing grimly in their local line, arms crossed, wearing a black armband mourning the imminent "death of Star Trek," waiting to be proven right about the magnitude of suckage and canon violation in the film, eager to get back here and post myriad variations on "I told you so!"

I just don't think they will get any TV airtime.

If shatner ratches up his problems with the movie, I think my OP will come true..it will come true anyway, but Shatner is fueling this story...we'll see....

Rob

 

[CaptainHarlock]

* This type of fan is disgusting. Who complains about changes in details of Enterprise is a person that makes sex one time each seven years. Or less.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Hey, I'm a total nerd. Used to wear home-made Trek uniforms to conventions (and was later cautioned by fans working on TNG when I was pitching never to let the producers find that out.)