SPOILER!!!:
Fundamentally, this was a story about a friendship between two men who have real challenges to overcome and can help each other do it. I particularly enjoyed watching their profound conflict warm into something else. Secondarily, it was about how a crew came together in a trial by fire. The mechanism for all this was a space opera plot with an alien bad guy of the week and a fair amount of implausibility, but I'll accept that because it because the main characters were compelling and because it was beautifully executed.
I'm not sure how I feel about Spock/Uhura because I think it is out of character for him, at least, but I find myself wondering why people are so quick to decide Uhura was dumb eye candy. Is there some kind of double standard at work? I thought her acting was in the same league as the others, not that she was given as much to do as K and S -- still, it was miles beyond anything poor Nichelle Nichols got to do.
Or was it the outfit? I definitely could have done without the minis for women in this movie. As long as they were rebooting... come on, guys. Where's the logic in traipsing around a spaceship where you can't bend over without showing off your booty? This is one case where staying true to the original doesn't make a whole lot of sense post-Enterprise or even just post-1970's.
As far as losing Vulcan -- yeah, that is a body blow -- but there are still 10,000 Vulcans. And now they are in an extremely interesting predicament as a people, as is Spock as an individual. The storytelling possibilities are really amazing.
I'm not sure how I feel about Spock/Uhura because I think it is out of character for him, at least, but I find myself wondering why people are so quick to decide Uhura was dumb eye candy. Is there some kind of double standard at work? I thought her acting was in the same league as the others, not that she was given as much to do as K and S -- still, it was miles beyond anything poor Nichelle Nichols got to do.
Or was it the outfit? I definitely could have done without the minis for women in this movie. As long as they were rebooting... come on, guys. Where's the logic in traipsing around a spaceship where you can't bend over without showing off your booty? This is one case where staying true to the original doesn't make a whole lot of sense post-Enterprise or even just post-1970's.
As far as losing Vulcan -- yeah, that is a body blow -- but there are still 10,000 Vulcans. And now they are in an extremely interesting predicament as a people, as is Spock as an individual. The storytelling possibilities are really amazing.
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