I actually liked how Vulcan was handled. The skies should have been orange, but thats a nit-pick. The way they handle the teasing - okay outright verbal abuse - that young Spock is subjected to is particularly clever. I've always had difficulty making the emotionless, stringently logical Vulcan discipline parse with the idea that Spock was jeered and bullied in school for being different. Abrams and Co. find a way to do it and have it make sense. This was probably my favorite moment in the whole flick.
But thats what's frustrating. The moments where they get it right. It's in those moments that I see a Star Trek reboot (something I've been a vocal, and my friends will say tedious, advocate of for years now) that I might have loved. I so wanted Star Trek back. After suffering through Voyager and Enterprise (apologies to any who like those shows) it would have been nice to find Trek that I could get excited about again. It looks now like I never will. But there's always hope I suppose...
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Date: 2009-05-09 08:58 pm (UTC)But thats what's frustrating. The moments where they get it right. It's in those moments that I see a Star Trek reboot (something I've been a vocal, and my friends will say tedious, advocate of for years now) that I might have loved. I so wanted Star Trek back. After suffering through Voyager and Enterprise (apologies to any who like those shows) it would have been nice to find Trek that I could get excited about again. It looks now like I never will. But there's always hope I suppose...