So I did not rush out to see Star Trek: Into Darkness last weekend, because I was an OG Trekkie almost fifty years ago, and (to paraphrase the old joke about the young bull and the old bull) I figure I can saunter up the hill in a week or three and enjoy all the nasty reviews in the meantime.
For those of you who’ve already seen ST:ID, or who really don’t mind spoilers, I cannot highly enough recommend Rob Bricken’s “The Spoiler FAQ” at io9…
… And furthermore, using Khan just proves that nu-Trek is going to be nothing more than the greatest hits version of Star Trek, and not even the original hits — some new band covering the old hits. It means that Abrams doesn’t have any original ideas for Star Trek, and is content to rehash the shit people enjoyed the first time. Of all the classic Trek characters to bring back, of all the classic stories they could have brought to mass audiences for the first time, or even bad stories that they could have improved, they go with the one character everybody already fucking knows because they think all we want to see is the same old shit…
I think everybody had probably best assume that the comments in this one thread will contain spoilers, so — What’s your opinion of ST:ID? Any other reviews (positive or not) you’d recommend?
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