From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek:  Am I the Only One?   
      
   >  -----Original Message-----   
   >  From: Wickeddoll [mailto:not@chance.dude]   
   >  Posted At: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:06 PM   
   >  Posted To: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   >  Conversation: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
   >  Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
   >     
   >  Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   >  > Santolina chamaecyparissus wrote:   
   >  >> On Dec 9, 9:34 am, A Watcher  wrote:   
   >  >>> trag wrote:   
   >  >>>> On Dec 9, 9:56 am, "Smokie Darling (Annie)"   
   >     
   >  >>>> wrote:   
   >  >>>>> I agree with Ted here.  The whole Soran plot was just a device   
   >  >>>>> (mcguffin, if I may), the real plot was reintroducing all the   
   >  >>>>> characters that most ST viewers "know", and the new   
   interactions   
   >  based   
   >  >>>>> on a certain event that occurred.   
   >  >>>> That's not  the Kirk that I "know".   
   >  >>> Isn't a point of the latest movie?  Changing their past changed   
   >  the   
   >  >>> characters we knew in the original ST.  Now they can go on and   
   >  make new   
   >  >>> movies based on these different characters.  There's no end to   
   it.   
   >  >>>   
   >  >>   
   >  >> Except, none of them act any differently from the old characters.   
   >  >> Well, except Uhura, who has a huge schoolgirl crush on Spock.   
   >  >> Fascinating.   
   >  >>   
   >  > And yet most of the complaints include something about how the   
   >  > characters act _nothing_ like the previous bearers of those names.   
   >  >   
   >     
   >  Ya ain't gonna please everyone, so I just interpret things for   
   myself.   
   >  I thought only Pine and Quinto were true to the personalities created   
   >  by   
   >  Shatner and Nimoy - the rest were something else entirely.  Including   
   >  Urban - he did McCoy's bitching, but I didn't think he got the   
   >  personality down - he was too hostile all the time.  Kelley's Bones   
   >  was   
   >  a fussbudget, but he was affable most of the time.   
      
   But remember that you're seeing these characters at an earlier stage of   
   their lives--Starfleet Academy or thereabouts.  In this movie, this   
   McCoy had just concluded a messy divorce, and was still bitter and angry   
   over it.   
      
      
   At least a decade more elapses till we get to the TOS era, and the   
   characters have acquired more maturity and mellowed somewhat.   
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
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