XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.movies.current-films, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: stocksami@earthlink.net   
      
   Ted Nolan  wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > A Watcher   wrote:   
   >> A Watcher wrote:   
   >>> trag wrote:   
   >>>> On Dec 9, 9:56 am, "Smokie Darling (Annie)"    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> I agree with Ted here.  The whole Soran plot was just a device   
   >>>>> (mcguffin, if I may), the real plot was reintroducing all the   
   >>>>> characters that most ST viewers "know", and the new interactions based   
   >>>>> on a certain event that occurred.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That's not  the Kirk that I "know".   
   >>>>   
   >>> Isn't a point of the latest movie?  Changing their past changed the   
   >>> characters we knew in the original ST.  Now they can go on and make new   
   >>> movies based on these different characters.  There's no end to it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Of course that will confuse the casual viewers who are really into ST.   
   >>>   
   >> Whoops, some typos in that post.:   
   >>   
   >> Isn't that a point of the movie.   
   >>   
   >> Of course that will confuse the casual viewers who aren't really into ST.   
   >   
   > I was wondering if that was snark or a typo :-)   
   >   
   > I don't think it will confuse the casual though.  They know "Kirk ==   
   Captain",   
   > "Spock == Pointy ears + logical", "Bones == doctor + curmudgeon",   
   > "Uhura == attractive black lady + competent",   
   > "scotty == engineer + 'I canna change the laws of physics' schtick".   
   >   
   > All that's still there.  The *non* casual viewers will complain how it's   
   > all wrong once you get past the first layer, the casual viewers will get   
   > what they expected.   
   >   
   > 				Ted   
      
   Don't the serious ST fans always complain. :-)   
      
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