new clip from episode 2
hmmmmm....I dont know... but maybe this is because this is a clip but I am not too big of a fan of the acting here from Celia and Ethan. Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana played the roles of Spock and Uhura better.
I can't say I agree.
To some extent, this is an apples and oranges comparison. Quinto plays Spock much more broadly, more arch, in the Kelvin films, because those are big blockbuster movies that have about two hours to hit all their big emotional highlights, so Quinto
has to play his character more broadly, with all his emotions
just beneath the surface, with bigger emotional highs. Peck, by contrast, is playing Spock on a TV series with semi-serialized character (not plot) arcs, so his Spock can be a little more nuanced, have his emotions be a little less just beneath the surface, and have less overt emotional highs.
It's next to impossible to compare Saldana's and Gooding's versions of Uhura, because we've barely seen Gooding. The most I think we can say is that Saldana was very concerned with establishing Uhura as an assertive , confident woman who is balancing being in a relationship, fulfilling her duties, and fending off unwanted sexual advances, and she brought a lot of her public persona to the role. Gooding by contrast is playing a version of Uhura who is a bit less sure of herself, trying to prove herself, and Gooding is also making more of an effort to replicate some of the mannerisms of Nichelle Nichols.
the acting for me seems not to be hitting the right notes, even Anson Mount that I liked in disco, I think Pike's Bruce Greenwood form the Kelvin films had a stronger and authoritative presence than Mount.
*shrugs* They both seem very commanding and authoritative to me.
Also this writers may be getting things off the rail with some legacy characters. Chapel had a long love crush on Spock that was I will say sweet and innocent. Now in this new series of the same character by episode 2, she is flirting with him that had that Uhura thinks she is his girlfriend, it is too much of a drastic change and I fear it may make Chapel come off as too aggressive or dominating, which is just so not her character.
... you are reading a
lot of things into that scene that are simply not present. But suffice it to say that 1) Uhura did not actually think Chapel was Spock's girlfriend (she was teasing him); that there is nothing wrong with a confident woman flirting with someone as long as she is not sexually harassing them; and that the entire idea of calling a grown woman's unrequited feelings for another adult "sweet and innocent" has a
lot of misogynistic ideas associated with it whether you intend that or not.
It is. because what we will be comparing is the acting range of an actor and quinto has more range.
I see no evidence of this.
I am sorry but even in the first episode with tpring, peck spock lacked tenderness in those scenes with his soon to be wife.
I completely disagree. If anything, I thought that he and Gia Sandhu played Spock and T'Pring with
too much overt tenderness and affection.
His delivery felt scripted. A far cry from quinto spock who always showed tenderness with the kelvin uhura and still could come off vulcan.
I think the difference here is that Peck put more of the tenderness with T'Pring in his facial expressions whereas Quinto tended to play the tenderness of his scenes with Uhura in his vocal inflections. They're just different acting choices; neither one is better than the other. I personally think they
both overplayed the emotions of those scenes just a tad bit, actually, but I also think that's a subjective evaluation.
Funny that that clip is uhura making a joke and we did not bother to laugh.
Yes, part of the point of the scene is that Uhura is awkward and not sure how to bond with Spock yet. She makes a joke and it does not land, for Spock or for the audience. That is the intent. Still doesn't mean she actually thought Chapel was Spock's girlfriend.
There were many laughing moments with quinto spock because some of his reactions to stuff were legit funny like when he told Pike that the complexity of humans pranks escapes him. After Pike promoted kirk to first officer in the 2009 film.
I mean, if you laughed, great, but I only thought that was cute not funny. I smiled; I didn't laugh.
