Let me explain what I mean. They needed to undo the ending of TWOK, with Spock dying, since Nimoy was going to come back and be in more Star Trek movies. So they created an entire movie around bringing him back, and tying up some other plot threads from TWOK(Kirk's son, the Genesis planet, etc.)
Yet what if they'd gone a different direction? ESB left off with a character in need of being brought back, too -Han Solo. Yet the entire plot of ROTJ wasn't "the rescue of Han Solo." That was only about the first 35-45 minutes of the film.
What if TSFS had dropped the whole "opposition from Starfleet," "stealing the Enterprise" stuff, and just had Kirk take the ship back to Genesis, pick up Spock, fight the Klingons, and bring Spock to Vulcan?
Actually, you could skip the whole fight with the Klingons and just have The Genesis planet destroy itself because it was unstable or something.
I guess my point is-what if they had done an entirely original plot after bringing Spock back early in the film, instead of taking the entire film just to undo his death? Don't get me wrong, I like TSFS, it's just that I've always felt that they kind of wasted one of only a handful of original crew movies we got with just bringing Spock back to be in future movies. Seems to me they could have brought him back early in the movie and then had something else to deal with.
(it's kind of like fan speculation about TVH before it came out. Many fans thought that a large part of the movie would focus on Kirk and crew facing Courts Martial or the consequences of their actions in TSFS in some big way. It turned out that only took up like fifteen minutes of the movie at the very end, and the very beginning.)
Yet what if they'd gone a different direction? ESB left off with a character in need of being brought back, too -Han Solo. Yet the entire plot of ROTJ wasn't "the rescue of Han Solo." That was only about the first 35-45 minutes of the film.
What if TSFS had dropped the whole "opposition from Starfleet," "stealing the Enterprise" stuff, and just had Kirk take the ship back to Genesis, pick up Spock, fight the Klingons, and bring Spock to Vulcan?
Actually, you could skip the whole fight with the Klingons and just have The Genesis planet destroy itself because it was unstable or something.
I guess my point is-what if they had done an entirely original plot after bringing Spock back early in the film, instead of taking the entire film just to undo his death? Don't get me wrong, I like TSFS, it's just that I've always felt that they kind of wasted one of only a handful of original crew movies we got with just bringing Spock back to be in future movies. Seems to me they could have brought him back early in the movie and then had something else to deal with.
(it's kind of like fan speculation about TVH before it came out. Many fans thought that a large part of the movie would focus on Kirk and crew facing Courts Martial or the consequences of their actions in TSFS in some big way. It turned out that only took up like fifteen minutes of the movie at the very end, and the very beginning.)
