From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: santolina@juno.com
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?

On Dec 10, 5:03apm, Dimensional Traveler  wrote:
> 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. aThe 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 athe Kirk that I "know".
> >>>> Isn't a point of the latest movie? aChanging their past changed the
> >>>> characters we knew in the original ST. aNow they can go on and make new
> >>>> movies based on these different characters. aThere'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." aI don't recall any of them complaining that
> > they couldn't recognize the reimagined characters, but maybe you read
> > more reviews than I did. aWho complained, old Trek fans? aThey'll
> > complain about anything.
>
> So the reviewers claim that the new actors "nailed the characters" of
> characters the reviewers don't know.
Uh, no.  They know the characters, they're just not Trek geeks so far
as I can tell.  Don't be obtuse.
>aYes, that's such a ringing
> endorsement. aMore likely the reviewers were saying that the actors
> "nailed" the characters as written for the movie,
No, they were saying what I implied they were saying.
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