Any other TOSers give up post-Abrams?
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Thinkin' a thing don't make it so.
Yeah. They thought things would be better if it was Star Wars flavoured.
Among other things. All part of the process.
No, putting those thoughts onto the screen does.
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They probably did. However, whatever their intentions, it made a person who was getting worn out on Star Trek, suddenly love it again. I love the original series, I love the Star Trek legacy, I love it all, but it had become routine. The new movie infused life back into it, and I have that feeling of "first love" for Star Trek again, that I hadn't felt in many years. That may not seem like much, but to me, it is a wonderful feeling, to have that zest for the greatness that is Star Trek.
I think, right now, I'm so forward about it because I finished watching Trekkies, and I just really miss the late 90s. I don't think we'll ever see that again.
Having a conversation with generation X and Y about the shortfall of Abram's Star Trek is like having a conversation about Babe Ruth or Sammy Sosa, Fred Astaire or Timberlake, Ali or Tyson. To each its own. Don't even ask the Kindle generation to read a book so forget Star Trek literature. Usually a newer generation improves upon the old as we want them too. But I feel Abram's Star Trek tried to be too politically correct, diverse, and friendly too quick. Although we hope our future generation is kinder and gentler, the whole interspecies mingling with the emotionally available Spock was too out of character with the canon of Vulcan personalities. Abram's would have been better off moving the story forward than trying to recapture the beginning. Don't get me started on the Oscar because we all know it's about timing and year's competition per category.
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There is no generational link between like or dislike of the movie.
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Not the 'Kindle generation'
is responsible for a diminishing interest in Trek books - the really bad quality of far to many of them is.
Amen, Axiom. I was born in 1957, and my husband was born in 1955 (and both of us have been Star Trek fans since the first episode premiered). We have several friends our age who are also ST fans. As a result, I can testify there are plenty of geezers around who liked the movie, because with one exception (my brother, who's turned into a crabby old fart about everything anyway), we all liked it tremendously.
Then, of course, there are the many 40 year-plus Trek fans who enjoyued the movie.
Amen, Axiom. I was born in 1957, and my husband was born in 1955 (and both of us have been Star Trek fans since the first episode premiered). We have several friends our age who are also ST fans. As a result, I can testify there are plenty of geezers around who liked the movie, because with one exception (my brother, who's turned into a crabby old fart about everything anyway), we all liked it tremendously.
I'm in my mid-fifties. So, your premise fails.
I've noticed that some like to say that if you're of a certain age and don't like the movie then you're likely an old crab, a curmudgeon or anything else that's equivalent with being unable to appreciate anything new. They can't seem to accept that some people just don't think it's a good movie and can't accept it's flaws alongside not seeing enough good in it.
The park was abandoned, choked by weeds and filled with rubbish. It's under new management now, and the old rides that bored folks and drew no customers have been torn out, thrown away and replaced with more modern entertainments. And if some old guys want to sit around and harangue the kids with how much more fun the place was in '68...let 'em, as long as they don't slow traffic or block the concession stand.
It's Cartmanland!
I agree with you, btw.
And this has got nothing to do with age, too. My dad is over 60 and watched TOS's original run. He likes Abrams-verse just fine. I never thought anyone would make this an age-related thing. As if all the people who rip on the new film were old timers.
Exactly.I never thought anyone would make this an age-related thing. As if all the people who rip on the new film were old timers.
Somedays I think that the vitriol spewed at the movie can be boiled down into what Kirk said to Azetbur in The Undiscovered Country:
"People can be very frightened of change."
"People can be very frightened of change."
Especially when it's bad.
After watching Abrams' film I find myself more forgiving of TWoK. Curiously at work these past couple of weeks both films were playing on big screens to demo Blu-Ray (I work at Future Shop). The TV's were almost side-by-side.
One of the things that impressed me about the TWoK Blu-Ray was how good some of those pre cgi f/x look. That said the CRT monitors on the bridge still look absurd.
One of the things that impressed me about the TWoK Blu-Ray was how good some of those pre cgi f/x look. That said the CRT monitors on the bridge still look absurd.
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