On Feb 8, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Travis Edmunds wrote:
But we were still dealing with temporally developed characters. Consequently, we the audience have certain character-specific expectations - i.e. the goosebumps a die-hard Trekkie/Trekker (the latter being my generation) gets when Kirk is laughing at the superior intellect of Khan whilst kicking the genetically engineered crap outta said bad guy. That's all I'm saying. A feature film with an entirely new cast of characters = no goosebumps.
Ah, OK, I see. But is that really necessary? Aren't there other movies that start from a premise of unknown characters and leave you chilly, simply because they're well written, -directed and -acted? I can think of a few.
If the expectations of the Trek franchise have sunk so low that there's not even a realistic hope of a square-one story having a truly meaningful impact, then I say let it lie on the shelf and stay there until some truly talented people come along and pick it up again.
Paramount is right. They have to kill Trek in order to save it.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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