I love him in all his incarnations.
In the reboot he's the character that I find the most interesting and he's perhaps the more layered.
He surely is the character I'd have more fun writing if I were a writer.
The only scene where I thought he was OOC is the one where he cried and shouted "khan".
That was over the top and way too forced and the reason number one why some iconic scenes cannot simply be reversed and rewritten to fit a reboot with characters that had just meet each other.
I do get that the scene was more like the last straw that broke the camel's back for him so it's not like his reaction was without context and unique circumstances. He never really grieved for his mother and home planet and his PTSD is heavily hinted in the comics too where Uhura herself is worried about him and him seemingly having a death wish. The comics make her reaction in the movie all the more understandable and I honestly think he needed that argument. Without that scene between them, we would never get inside his psyche that way as she was the only person with whom he could open up in that moment. His speech in the ship on the way to kronos proved that the destruction of vulcan and the death of his mother weren't of no consequence and I like the nod to a recurring theme that is the fact that unlike what it looks from the outside the vulcans actually feel more than the humans (the message of what he told Uhura basically was that he cares/feels too much and that's the reason why he needs control )
So back to Kirk's death it probably was the last straw and from this perspective it makes sense for him to have a stronger reaction than he'd have under different circumstances. Plus I think that Spock felt extra sorry for Kirk because the latter had saved him at the beginning and he had been a tad ungrateful with him b/c he didn't even get why the captain was his friend... and then in the end Kirk sacrifices himself to save everyone and Spock cannot save his life back, there is nothing he can do to help him.
That said, it still feels forced for him to cry and scream like that for someone that just minutes ago he wouldn't even really consider a friend. He didn't cry not even when his mother died and his home planet got destroyed. It's his reaction when Amanda died that shows you how he reacts to this kind of things. Just watch the scene where he and the other vulcans appear on the pad and he just looks at the pad where his mother should have been. Looking at him (and Sarek too. His reaction all the more subtle but it's there) you just
know that the image of his mother looking at him before she fell to her death will taunt him
forever.
The only moment where he shows his grief in a more almost conventional human way is when he's alone with Uhura and for a moment it seems like he's about to cry on her shoulder but his pain and grief remains dignified just like his resolve to not completely succumb to it.
It just made his grief all the more obvious and thus it makes those scenes more emotional.
I'm watching season on of TOS now, and I think Spock shows emotions in very subtle ways here and there.
NuSpock in the movies has had huge emotion events to react to. Losing his mother, the Vulcan home world, an early reconciliation with Sarek, being in love with Uhura, Kirk's near death...also, in the format of movies vs tv series, things have to move quickly, there's no time to develop things slowly the way a tv series could.
I would speculate that his reconciliation with Sarek after their devestating losses freed him up to be more true to himself and not repress his human emotions as severely as he did originally. Uhura probably helps bring these qualities out in them too.
I've loved Quinto's Spock, I have no issues with his characterization or growth.
Agree.
TOS had always been mainly the Kirk's show and while Spock was a very prominent character, there is a lot about him that was underdeveloped/underutilized.. a lot about him we don't really know.
Giving him personal arcs that are not connected to the friendship with Kirk ( like a girlfriend, the death of his mother and the vulcan's destruction) makes it possible for the writers to get inside Spock's psyche and develop him as co-protagonist with Kirk rather than just the nerdy friend of hero, so to speak.
Had Spock Prime been a true co-protagonist as well, we'd probably see more of him too (I'm not talking about just the screentime here but the
way it's used and
why)
And dawwww.... little non-canon deleted Spock I love him too!
I wonder if that was a real baby.
Imagine if you could grow up and say, "I played Spock in a Star Trek movie".
it was a real baby and he actually was a little girl
baby Spock is truly adorable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXKiGZzGtSs
best line:
vulcan lady: the baby is healthy why does the mother cry?
older vulcan lady:
she's human.
