Ok, I usually don’t have the patience to read all the replies when most usually end up being arguments, anymore, so please excuse me if I am repeating what’s already said.
Nemesis to me, was very bad for many reasons. All of them legitimate in my view. I will try to explain them all objectively.
Data’s new brother, B4: A relatively unoriginal concept to include in a movie for the big screen, based on a series which has included Data’s other brother, Data’s daughter and Data’s daddy in numerous story arcs. It seemed relatively bare and quite….*yawn* seen this stuff before, give us something new, in feeling and in implementation.
Shinzon: Now here is the ruination. Now, I can accept romulans cloning captain, making them genetically defunct by accident due to rapid maturity and such. I can understand all that, that the Romulan’s being Romulan’s.
What I can’t accept is his entire mentality and choice of targets and enemies. He was tortured by Romulans, enslaved by Romulans, befreiended by Remans which were also slaves to Romulans.
What’s his beef with earth, and especially Picard?
He is the whiteman raised by Indians story, with no hint of the white man raised by Indians methos to him. They should really have hit on that, yet they made him too dimensional. He’s going to attack earth…WHY? To be remembered? That doesn’t quite fit. There’s plenty of worlds that are just as important to earth that have done the Romulan Empire more damage, his only experience in war is fighting beside humans and romulans against the dominion.
His motives against earth still don’t make sense.
Earth being lost will not cripple the federation, its too vast. Infact the federation would beyond crying voer the deaths of so many, really wouldn’t be affected in the long term.
Stop targeting earth with 2-dimensional bad guys whose motives are questionable against any form of logic…earth aint that important in the galaxy, just because they think it touches us…earth based viewers.
I can accept his need to kill picard for genetic material, but I cannot understand his hate of picard. He’s a clone yes, but he is his own person, he is not an echo of the voice.
But overall, the movie introduced nothing new.
Angry clones, Data’s brother used evily, Target: Earth for no logical reason at all, …
It’s just a badly written TNG episode adapted for the silver screen.
It is not cinema quality.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I go to the cinemas to watch something that deserves to be on that big screen.
Nemesis deserved to be a direct to DVD release at best.
*******EDIT*******
Instantly after writing this article I turned to realise one of my cats had just done a massive shit on one of my jackets. After I got over the anger of that considering it DOES know how to use the kitty litter, and it had access and I rubbed its nose in it and cleaned it up...I thought. "Man, he just summed my thoughts of Nemesis up in one simply action: Same shit, worse smell than usual."
