But yeah, middy, you have always shown yourself to be a most reasonable man. It was wrong of me to suggest otherwise.
No worries.
See what I mean? Most reasonable.
(I'm trying to be the change I wish to see on the board.
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SPOILERS : List of the TOS references in the new movie
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See what I mean? Most reasonable.
(I'm trying to be the change I wish to see on the board.
)
(I'm trying to be the change I wish to see on the board.
I think you've done a good job in that regards. I've always found your post to be well thought and well argued.
I goofed big time on point 6 above. The same dialogue also appears between Kirk and McCoy in "The Corbomite Manuever."
^^^In TOS, the first person Spock nerve pinched was Kirk--half of him, anyway ("The Enemy Within"). So it's only fitting the first person we see him pinch in the new continuity is Kirk as well.
Thanks, folks.
No one has mentioned that Chris Pine crosses his legs JUST like Shatner, when sitting in the captain's chair at the very end - neither Pike or Robau do it....
Pine does seem to have Shatner's swagger in the final bridge scene from the posture to the strut, finally culminating in sitting in the chair and crossing his legs.
^^ Because Forbin directors like JJ aren't making the film for fans, that's why this movie sucked, throwing us a bone with TOS references and then changing the look of the ship and changing the characters was a big mistake.
As much as sympathize, it wasn't a mistake. It did exactly what Paramount wanted it to do: make money. It revitalized a fallow franchise years if not decades ahead of schedule. Good or bad (and I think more good than bad but YMMV and I totally see where you're coming from), that's all it needed to do. The glowing reviews it's gotten (even the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, who usually wipes his ass with SF movies, was somewhat kind--he only wiped his sweaty pits with this one) make it something else on top of that: the "prestige" blockbuster.
Again, don't take this as an argument or rebuke, just the facts as they most likely appear to Paramount, the folks who made this movie and a large portion of its audience. Sometimes you just have to be happy being a dissenter: I, for one, have never liked E.T. As you may imagine, that puts me in a small club indeed.
Again, don't take this as an argument or rebuke, just the facts as they most likely appear to Paramount, the folks who made this movie and a large portion of its audience. Sometimes you just have to be happy being a dissenter: I, for one, have never liked E.T. As you may imagine, that puts me in a small club indeed.
Oh yeah: when Spock leaves the bridge after throttling Kirk, Quinto expertly reproduces the dejected, hunched over walk Nimoy used in "The Naked Time" and "Amok Time."
Another thing I noticed during the construction shots of the Enterprise is that the bottom of the secondary hall has the same yellow circle and gray square/rectangular markings as the original television model. You get a good look at them when the Academy shuttle lifts off and flies off.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
No way..its far better. And the proof is in the pudding; people laughed when he said it. No one outside the Genre would even remember the old, and I might add, out-dated version...just another reason this movie succeeds despite the, you said it best, ridiculous ways people try to bring it down
Rob
I thought that too but couldn't place where I'd seen Kirk do so, it seemed that every TOS episode I watched afterwards just happened to be one he didn't do it in.
