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[bloodyrosemccoy]

I AM SURE ALL MY GEEK BUDDIES ARE WAITING BREATHLESSLY FOR IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW STAR TREK FILM. WELL, I HAVE BEEN TO THE MIDNIGHT SHOWING, MY FRIENDS, AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THIS MOVIE IS VERY, VERY LOUD.

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HEREBY INAUGURATE BABY SPOCK* INTO MY COLLECTION OF PEOPLE FOR WHOM I HAVE DECLARED UNDYING LOVE.

AND WITH THE SPECTACULAR SCENE INVOLVING KIRK, SULU, AND SOME GUY IN A RED SPACESUIT, I AM FORCED TO CONCLUDE THAT THIS FRANCHISE HAS VERY WEIRD IDEAS OF FANSERVICE.

IN CONCLUSION: DUUUUDE.


*JUST TO BE CLEAR, BABY SPOCK IS THE ZACHARY QUINTO ONE. I HAVE DUBBED THE BRIEFLY-APPEARING CHILD VERSION THE SPOCKLET.

Comments

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Very weird, but AWESOME!

The Baby Chekhov made me SQUEE! He was sewenteen! D'AWWWWWWW *cuddles him*

... in other news, it appears that my really, really whacked maternal instinct is still fully functioning ...

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I know, right? He was so damn PROUD of himself whenever he figured something out!

I admit, I cheered and applauded at Ensign Ricky Redshirt's fiery demise. The catchphrases made me nod and go "Uh huh," but a rousing and inspiring salute to the fine tradition of the original show was enough to get me going.

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

He was like what Wesley Crusher ought to have been - basically, a whole lot MORE adorable and LESS annoying. I have just this second made this icon of him to illustrate how fantastic I think he is.

If you don't explode, decapitate or completely incinerate at least one redshirt, it is NOT a Star Trek anything. Clearly, they have learnt this.

The only catchphrase that didn't make me groan as well as giggle (I admit, I giggled at all of them as well as groaning) was 'I'm a doctor, not a physicist!' But I think that's because I was struck quite forcibly by what a FABULOUS casting choice Karl Urban was for Bones.

I spent MOST of the movie debating with myself over whether or not the guy playing Kirk was the guy who played Iceman in the X-men films. Turns out he isn't. But it was very distracting!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's exactly it--totally enthusiastic Wesley Crusher-y goodness. I want to ruffle his hair and ask him who's the cutest widdle genius around.

They did a pretty good job casting, I gotta say. I liked it when the actors would try to insert some familiar mannerism from the old show, like how Kirk lounges in the captain's chair or Spock's eyebrow-pop, because it never QUITE worked but it was a pretty good try.

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

I think overall you have to give the director and cast an A+ for effort.

[karjack.livejournal.com]

I love Baby Spock so much.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I sorta had the same response to him Uhura did.

[10cents.livejournal.com]

IIIIEEEE, I CAN'T WAIT! Glad to hear that you enjoyed it. I am going tonight, only because that's the earliest that all of the people I am going with can get there. Otherwise I would have been first in line to the first showing.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

My b/f and I waited in line for hours to see it just last night. It was the first movie we saw together in a theatre ever. It had its flaws (Earth bars wouldn't have had Cardassian drinks in that time period :P) but I certainly don't regret having seen it. Did you read the 4-part comic prequel?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I did not!

I'd say that's a pretty good first right there for you two!

I admit my biggest issue was less about the details and more that it was more like Star Wars than Star Trek in feel--actiony, epic, but less of that sense of anthropology and diplomacy and discovery. But hey, still pretty awesome. (And how badass is it that they made Uhura a xenolinguist?)

[bean-bunny.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT?

I WAS CAPSLOCKED ALL FUCKING NIGHT UNTIL I FELL ASLEEP BECAUSE DAVID TURNED ON NEXT GENERATION AND THAT'S HOW I ROLL.

YOU MAY ENJOY YOUR BABY SPOCK, MY DEAR, FOR IT LEAVES MORE KIRK FOR ME.