Abrams Talks Trek XI (From ComingSoon)

[nx1701g]

Saw this on coming soon and I hadn't seen it posted here so I thought I'd repost it here.

ComingSoon:
CS: You've said that you didn't start out as an uber-fan of "Star Trek," but you quickly became a fan. Can you talk in general terms about what you fell in love with about the whole franchise?

Abrams: I fell in love with the relationships between the characters. I fell in love with the characters. The idea of – it's so funny because you hear something so often and it loses it's meaning. But "space, the final frontier" – if you actually consider space as uncharted territory there's something about the idea of these people, because any ship flying by isn't going to get you excited. It's who's on the ship that matters. I feel like these characters actually going out into that nothingness and finding something is great. Having lived with it now and gotten to know the characters and worked with amazing actors who portrayed them, it made me fall in love with that notion, that idea that for some reason never struck me the way that "Twilight Zone" did. [CONTINUED]

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Well, that moron Abrams has no respect for TOS.

He's just trying to make an easy pile of money. Anyone who believes this movie might be good is just drinking the Kool-Aid.

Abrams pisses me off.

Okay, now that we've saved the effort of at least one post...

This sounds great. Thanks for posting it.

 

[Tralah]

To me the characters are at the heart of what made TOS so great, and I find it very encouraging that Abrams seems to realize this too.

 

[Jon1701]

Well, that moron Abrams has no respect for TOS.

He's just trying to make an easy pile of money. Anyone who believes this movie might be good is just drinking the Kool-Aid.

Abrams pisses me off.

Star trek is parody.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Star trek is parody.

Much of Star Trek fandom is self-parody.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Star Trek is a parody of Star Trek.

 

[Lord Garth]

Nice to see JJ Abrams talking about the film some more.

Okay, now that we've saved the effort of at least one post...

You'll get more of the replies you really want to see, the more "fun" ones that you can play off of, on comingsoon.net than you will here.

 

[HaplessCrewman]

I think this thread is a parody of the other! LOL

Why oh why do the most entertaining threads get closed the fastest?

 

[Sector 7]

The more I read from JJ Abrams, the more excited I am about the new Trek.
So far, I have seen nothing from the man to prove otherwise.

 

[Franklin]

The more I read from JJ Abrams, the more excited I am about the new Trek.
So far, I have seen nothing from the man to prove otherwise.

Ageed. I suppose cynics look askance at his gushing. But I think he does get Trek. I just hope I never hear him say the movie is, "A valentine for the fans."