so you think star trek beyond doesn't need to be a sequel and keep some continuity with the first two movie and thus respect the integrity of the characters and story so far?
if so, we disagree
but it seems to me, or I confuse your nick with another, that not a long time ago you were among the ones saying that the new movie wouldn't be too different and would keep the dynamics and character arcs from the first two.
In fact, when I shared my worries about Pegg some people here were saying he has no power anyway and that he probably had to follow the work done by the other writers and what paramount&bad robot say.
yeah, but I'm here and want to see the new movie because I'm a fan of the first two, obviously. If I wanted to watch a completely different thing, I wouldn't need to watch this movie.
I'm sure a lot of the people in the audience will be people who hadn't watched the first two movies and probably the goal here is to draw that part of the audience and thus get new fans. But I also think the existing fans of the reboot are interested because they want to know how this story ends. I don't think this is a crazy concept or something new.
as for the reboot being an origin story of the characters from tos: yes and no.
It's an origin story of a version of these characters, but not the tos one. For that, we have to wait for another reboot because as soon they made this one an alternate reality and made it a point in the story that it is a different reality, and introduced new stuff (some tragic, some not) changing the course of the characters' lives, pretending that these people are clones of their tos counterparts or that this had never been an alternate reality would be, honestly, stupid.
Spock for example has his own integrity here, he isn't merely a younger version of Nimoy's Spock..the moment you try to turn him into tos Spock you turn him a caricature because you have to ignore aspects of the character in this continuity to justify him acting the same exact way he did in tos, even if for his own arc it doesn't make sense. They're both Spock, but they are not the same. Spock Prime never had a relationship with Uhura, he didn't see his planet getting destroyed, he didn't see his mother die, he didn't have his father admitting that it's ok for vulcans to have feelings too and thus he doesn't fail as one, or it's his human side to blame, if he has feelings. His emotional development was accelerated and he essentially reached a point in his life that it took Spock Prime years to reach because he had different life experiences.
The least thing I want to see is MCcoy being xenophobic with this Spock and being all about how he has no feelings when this McCoy should know better and this Spock had never really pretended to have no feelings or was on denial about his human side the way tos Spock was.
Accidentally uploaded my ass.
