Abrams Interview with LA Times - 1/29

[datas_cat_spot]

Here's part two of the interview.

 

[cooleddie74]

We Trekkers can be a vicious lot. Abrams has every right to be a little nervous. We are ruthless to our OWN. We can't even agree and be happy on whether Kirk served more than one five-year mission or not. Abrams will wish he died in a flash fire at a barbecue if this film doesn't do well and he has to run into some of us.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

We Trekkers can be a vicious lot. Abrams has every right to be a little nervous. We are ruthless to our OWN. We can't even agree and be happy on whether Kirk served more than one five-year mission or not. Abrams will wish he died in a flash fire at a barbecue if this film doesn't do well and he has to run into some of us.

Hell I've hear that some Trekkers have actually tasted human flesh, and engauge in depraved rituals invloving Star Trek action figures.

 

[cooleddie74]

We Trekkers can be a vicious lot. Abrams has every right to be a little nervous. We are ruthless to our OWN. We can't even agree and be happy on whether Kirk served more than one five-year mission or not. Abrams will wish he died in a flash fire at a barbecue if this film doesn't do well and he has to run into some of us.

Hell I've hear that some Trekkers have actually tasted human flesh, and engauge in depraved rituals invloving Star Trek action figures.

Captain Robau is so badass...he doesn't even COOK human flesh first before consuming it.

 

[Amaris]

I'm excited about this movie, but poor, poor J.J. If he's saying things like this:

You know, I would think that especially fans of "Star Trek," which is an optimistic universe, a universe about working together and the possibility of the human endeavor, you would think that people who appreciate that wonderful portrait of the future and that universe would be open to literally going to a place no one has ever gone before. I'm very optimistic that fans of the show, even the pursuits, will be willing to embrace the spirit of Roddenberry and once they see these actors doing this extraordinary work, I think they will have to intellectualize it all, they'll simply enjoy the experience.

Then he has NOT visited this forum.
I'm not kidding. I have seen some of the most petty people posting in this forum, arguing right down to the tiniest detail and how it's all gone horribly wrong.

J.

 

[cooleddie74]

If J.J. visited the Trek BBS on a regular basis he would have already put the business end of a .357 Magnum in the back of his mouth. This place humbles even the people who are MEMBERS.

 

[Amaris]

If J.J. visited the Trek BBS on a regular basis he would have already put the business end of a .357 Magnum in the back of his mouth. This place humbles even the people who are MEMBERS.

Oh yeah. Nothing kills optimism faster than a bunch of Trek fans.
Hell, they'll do it over nothing more than the thread count of a standard Starfleet issue bed sheet in episode 3F204 at time stamp 0:58:11:08 and whether it's canon with the bedsheet seen in episode 2F401 at time stamp 1:21:44:19. And they will have a riot over the differences.


J.

 

[M'Sharak]

I'm excited about this movie, but poor, poor J.J. If he's saying things like this:

You know, I would think that especially fans of "Star Trek," which is an optimistic universe, a universe about working together and the possibility of the human endeavor, you would think that people who appreciate that wonderful portrait of the future and that universe would be open to literally going to a place no one has ever gone before. I'm very optimistic that fans of the show, even the pursuits, will be willing to embrace the spirit of Roddenberry and once they see these actors doing this extraordinary work, I think they will have to intellectualize it all, they'll simply enjoy the experience.

Then he has NOT visited this forum.

Or maybe he has.

 

[ITL]

Well, Sternbach thinks we're a bunch of nutters going by his appearance in the infamous Blue Warp Nacelles thread...

Could this be the "nutter" precedence? I think JJ would approve of such sillyness. But he may be dismayed by some other threads...

 

[Amaris]

I'm excited about this movie, but poor, poor J.J. If he's saying things like this:

You know, I would think that especially fans of "Star Trek," which is an optimistic universe, a universe about working together and the possibility of the human endeavor, you would think that people who appreciate that wonderful portrait of the future and that universe would be open to literally going to a place no one has ever gone before. I'm very optimistic that fans of the show, even the pursuits, will be willing to embrace the spirit of Roddenberry and once they see these actors doing this extraordinary work, I think they will have to intellectualize it all, they'll simply enjoy the experience.

Then he has NOT visited this forum.

Or maybe he has.

"For every one who hopes, there are two to depress him, three to reject him, and five to tell him how foolish he was."

J.

 

[M'Sharak]

Well, Sternbach thinks we're a bunch of nutters going by his appearance in the infamous Blue Warp Nacelles thread...

I can see where he might get that impression.

Could this be the "nutter" precedence? I think JJ would approve of such sillyness. But he may be dismayed by some other threads...

I have an idea he's got someone on staff whose job it is to keep track of what's being said in places like this. It may not have caused him to change the way he was treating the material but more than once he (and Orci and others) seem to have been anticipating questions before they're asked in interviews. Orci himself is a member at another board which some of the people here frequent.

Edit:

"For every one who hopes, there are two to depress him, three to reject him, and five to tell him how foolish he was."

I don't recognize the quote, but that's something which could be applied in a lot of places -- or to most things in life, perhaps.

 

[Amaris]

Well, Sternbach thinks we're a bunch of nutters going by his appearance in the infamous Blue Warp Nacelles thread...

I can see where he might get that impression.

Could this be the "nutter" precedence? I think JJ would approve of such sillyness. But he may be dismayed by some other threads...

I have an idea he's got someone on staff whose job it is to keep track of what's being said in places like this. It may not have caused him to change the way he was treating the material but more than once he (and Orci and others) seem to have been anticipating questions before they're asked in interviews. Orci himself is a member at another board which some of the people here frequent.

Edit:

"For every one who hopes, there are two to depress him, three to reject him, and five to tell him how foolish he was."

I don't recognize the quote, but that's something which could be applied in a lot of places -- or to most things in life, perhaps.

That would be a J. Allen original.

J.

 

[xortex]

In the interview with him and Orci, Orci looked liked he was going to jump out of his skin nervous. He said to Abrams, 'you finished it already?!' and seemed startled when Brannon Braga bumped into him and said hi.

 

[Messianni]

In the interview with him and Orci, Orci looked liked he was going to jump out of his skin nervous. He said to Abrams, 'you finished it already?!' and seemed startled when Brannon Braga bumped into him and said hi.

Nervous? Probably suprised and excited.

 

[lawman]

What blows my mind about the interview—and the more so that no one here has mentioned it yet—is that Abrams apparently thinks the Star Wars prequels worked and that Lucas got it right.

Surely the majority of fans agree that notwithstanding all the "design" and "rendering" that Abrams praises, the main thing Lucas accomplished, storywise, was to undermine the original films from 20 years earlier?

 

[Amaris]

What blows my mind about the interview—and the more so that no one here has mentioned it yet—is that Abrams apparently thinks the Star Wars prequels worked and that Lucas got it right.

Surely the majority of fans agree that notwithstanding all the "design" and "rendering" that Abrams praises, the main thing Lucas accomplished, storywise, was to undermine the original films from 20 years earlier?

From reading the article, I think what J.J. was saying that George's technique was right. The massive expansiveness of the Star Wars universe, the epic feel of it. The look, the style. He apparently disagrees with George's characters because he explains how he's going to do that differently, from the inside out instead of the other way around. If you'll notice, he's paying attention to all of the right things. The characters, the story, the optimism, and the epic feel of a grand adventure.

I am starting to feel very confident this movie is going to be good.

J.

 

[Shatmandu]

Is there really enough continuous nacelle gossip to fill a magazine every month?

I feel like it would likely be "Nacelles Quarterly".

as long as they keep the fold-out centrefold picture

But then we all couldn't have the mental picture of some fat, old twit beating off to the magazine, whispering, "Oh, your nacelle cap is waaaay too bright, you bad widdle boy. Daddy 'pank!"

Joe, word painter

 

[M'Sharak]

Oh, my...


Edit:
Someone over at the RPF took a few minutes and exercised a little imagination and came up with a picture of how a Nacelles Monthly cover might look.

 

[Messianni]

Oh, my...


Edit:
Someone over at the RPF took a few minutes and exercised a little imagination and came up with a picture of how a Nacelles Monthly cover might look.

Brilliant!

 

[Ptrope]

Someone over at the RPF took a few minutes and exercised a little imagination and came up with a picture of how a Nacelles Monthly cover might look.

Okay, if that were the only thing J.J. inspired in the Star Trek universe, it's worth it!