From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: not@chance.dude
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.
By the way, I think Pine turned in the best performance in the most
difficult role. Shatner so defined Kirk, I didn't think anyone else
could even come *close* to playing that character - I think Pine was
amazing.
Natalie
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