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   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <753fb19a-33c6-4faa-8e5c-c57469bfbf12@g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,   
   Santolina chamaecyparissus   wrote:   
   >Just watched the DVD of the new Trek film and I must say there are a   
   >couple of things I'm disappointed in.  First, the film, but only a   
   >little.  When I first read about the premise and the individuals who   
   >would be responsible for making it I set my sights rather low.  This   
   >outing, I thought, will likely be heavy on pyrotechnics and light on   
   >everything else.  But then the reviews started pouring in, and they   
   >were almost uniformly positive.  We were assured that fans of the   
   >various incarnations of Star Trek, as well as the public at large,   
   >would be thoroughly entertained.  Fair enough, I set my sights a   
   >little higher and was determined to like it.  Turns out my first   
   >instincts were closer to the mark.   
   >   
   >Second, I'm disappointed either in myself or popular culture in   
   >general, but I'm not sure which.  After all, consider the   
   >"story" (I'll avoid the temptation to compose a long essay on how   
   >threadbare it was and just leave the word in scare quotes).  Decimated   
   >by the loss of his family, a mad scientist named Soran skips across   
   >space and time looking for some sort of emotional resolution to his   
   >devastating loss.  The answer lies in his destruction of an entire   
   >planet full of innocent people, but he doesn't care.........oops.   
   >Sorry, I forgot to note the "spoilers" there.  I just gave away the   
   >entire plot of the new Star Trek movie.  Shoot.  And since there are   
   >no subplots or subtexts of any interest I've basically just summarized   
   >the whole darn thing.  Oh well.   
   >   
      
   I liked the movie.  I'm not sure its better than TWOK which still   
   had the TV continuity and long established characterizations to   
   draw on, but it's a good start.  And there were plenty of subplots.   
   In fact, the main "stop the bad guy" plot was almost secondary to   
   the subplots.  You could actually say the 'A' plot was "Kirk comes   
   of age" with 'B' character plots of who is   
   "Spock/Uhuru/Bones/Sulu/Scotty/Checkov" this time and a 'C' stop the   
   bad guy plot.   
      
   				Ted   
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