From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: dtravel@sonic.net
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?

Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:
> On Dec 9, 1:51 pm, Dimensional Traveler  wrote:
>> Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:
>>> On Dec 9, 9:34 am, 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.
>>> Except, none of them act any differently from the old characters.
>>> Well, except Uhura, who has a huge schoolgirl crush on Spock.
>>> Fascinating.
>> And yet most of the complaints include something about how the
>> characters act _nothing_ like the previous bearers of those names.
>>
> 
> Every review I read, and they were by generic movie reviewers rather
> than Trek fans, included some statement along the lines of "X and Y
> nailed their characters."  I don't recall any of them complaining that
> they couldn't recognize the reimagined characters, but maybe you read
> more reviews than I did.  Who complained, old Trek fans?  They'll
> complain about anything.
> 
So the reviewers claim that the new actors "nailed the characters" of 
characters the reviewers don't know.  Yes, that's such a ringing 
endorsement.  More likely the reviewers were saying that the actors 
"nailed" the characters as written for the movie, which is not the same 
as the characters from the series or previous movies.

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