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This movie! This movie which is a 9.5 out of 10 for not sucking! It teetered on the edge of epic fail - the Mandarin, Pepper, Tony's big ego - and never quite fell over! Eeee! I could've used a little more badass for Pepper, but it could have been so much worse and it wasn't, it was actually fun.
And ST:Into Darkness! I didn't set my expectations low enough! It was like the weakest parts of War Games in a blender with *handwaves vaguely* cheryypicked fragments of the source material to give the illusion of Trek-ness papering over the bits between the explosions. The plot mostly held together, other than the flimsy Prime Directive mess at the beginning, and the fistfight that had me jonesing for Uhura/Spock/Kirk at the end, and the middle... okay, cold mess from beginning to end. I was checking my watch an hour in, ugh. Maybe Abrams has swapped the traditional ST Odds Curse for an Evens Curse? Even if timing is pushed around so he can finish SW and get cracking on Reboot Three, it's pretty hard to mess up The Search for Spock with the canon divergences in Into Darkness. Or I will eventually accept that the reboot series is not my favorite ST series, but that's okay. And while waiting for that to happen, I will rewatch the clasics (The Voyage Home: embracing the camp!) while rereading War Games and Need to Know or maybe Miss P's reboot fic.
Expectations are everything: I went into IM3 expecting epic fail and enjoyed a move that threw itself at the ground and missed; Into Darkness was judged against a 20 year old standard and found wanting. I dread the inevitable sketchy pon farr movie so very much.
And ST:Into Darkness! I didn't set my expectations low enough! It was like the weakest parts of War Games in a blender with *handwaves vaguely* cheryypicked fragments of the source material to give the illusion of Trek-ness papering over the bits between the explosions. The plot mostly held together, other than the flimsy Prime Directive mess at the beginning, and the fistfight that had me jonesing for Uhura/Spock/Kirk at the end, and the middle... okay, cold mess from beginning to end. I was checking my watch an hour in, ugh. Maybe Abrams has swapped the traditional ST Odds Curse for an Evens Curse? Even if timing is pushed around so he can finish SW and get cracking on Reboot Three, it's pretty hard to mess up The Search for Spock with the canon divergences in Into Darkness. Or I will eventually accept that the reboot series is not my favorite ST series, but that's okay. And while waiting for that to happen, I will rewatch the clasics (The Voyage Home: embracing the camp!) while rereading War Games and Need to Know or maybe Miss P's reboot fic.
Expectations are everything: I went into IM3 expecting epic fail and enjoyed a move that threw itself at the ground and missed; Into Darkness was judged against a 20 year old standard and found wanting. I dread the inevitable sketchy pon farr movie so very much.