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May. 18th, 2013 10:23 pmTonight, I went to see the new Star Trek movie. About which, three things:
1) I think that I like Benedict Cumberbatch significantly more when he is being evil. I think it's because then the thing where he looks like a stick insect mated with a lizard person works for him, rather than against him.
2) I tend to think of these movies as AU fanfiction, in that they touch on canon things in ways that are often interesting or have a lot of emotional resonance, but they aren't actually canon. And, mostly, they work for me as fanfiction. However. Although I quite like Chris Pine in these movies and enjoy the character that he's playing, I have a really hard time thinking of that character as Jim Kirk. Because he's the kind of Jim Kirk that you'd get from someone who'd read a lot of fic and absorbed a lot of fanon but had not actually seen the original show. So that's occasionally distracting. (If you told me that he was John Crichton, I would have considerably less of a problem.)
3) ( And this one is spoilery. )
3.5) ( Also spoilery, pretty inconsequential. )
1) I think that I like Benedict Cumberbatch significantly more when he is being evil. I think it's because then the thing where he looks like a stick insect mated with a lizard person works for him, rather than against him.
2) I tend to think of these movies as AU fanfiction, in that they touch on canon things in ways that are often interesting or have a lot of emotional resonance, but they aren't actually canon. And, mostly, they work for me as fanfiction. However. Although I quite like Chris Pine in these movies and enjoy the character that he's playing, I have a really hard time thinking of that character as Jim Kirk. Because he's the kind of Jim Kirk that you'd get from someone who'd read a lot of fic and absorbed a lot of fanon but had not actually seen the original show. So that's occasionally distracting. (If you told me that he was John Crichton, I would have considerably less of a problem.)
3) ( And this one is spoilery. )
3.5) ( Also spoilery, pretty inconsequential. )
