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[bloodyrosemccoy]

Finally got around to seeing Star Trek: Into Darkness. Don't laugh. Sometimes things get in the way.

-I realize they're a dead horse at this point, but dammit I never get tired of redshirt jokes. Especially the one where (I think?) the nameless guys who had to take their red shirts off survived their away mission.

-I WANTED MORE KLINGONS.

-Dear Karl Urban: are you actually DeForest Kelley?

-I love that the soundtrack is still a raving fanboy. OMG EVERYBODY THIS IS A STAR TREK MOVIE AND I AM THE SOUNDTRACK! I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS I MIGHT JUST DIE

-Khan is still a lame villain. There, I said it.

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of Khan as a character, but he hasn't really been done well yet.

Other than that, I am in 100% agreement with your points, but would also add the look on Chekhov's face when Kirk tells him to put on a red shirt ;)

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

lol agreed. I need to find a CD of the soundtrack. It knows how awesome it is and how awesome Star Trek is and it's not afraid to show it.

And yeah, I never thought Khan was as great of a villain as the rest of the world does. But I do love Cumberbatch's voice, I could listen to it all day even if he's playing Khan.

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

Things I loved about that movie
- Uhura and Spock fighting and Kirk's reaction
- Uhura speaking Klingon
- Chekov's reaction to the red shirt
- Sulu taking command
- Scotty getting drunk
- when Khan said Spock couldn't break bone and you knew full well he'd be breaking some of Khan's by the end
- the reversal of the Wrath of Khan moment of sacrifice and how that made sense (I could go on at length but my theory is that Kirk and Spock especially but really all of them are going through the same character arcs as the originals, only doing it much faster, as triggered by the differences caused by the point of time-line divergence)
- Spock Prime's cameo
- and absolutely anything with Bones in it! Karl Urban is just brilliant and so outstandingly good in that part! I've read that his performance made Leonard Nimoy cry when they were filming the first of the reboot movies. Of course, Karl Urban is a complete geek. He gets it.