Tribe Weekend Recap: Two Walk Offs and a Shutout – What More Could You Ask For
May 20, 2013Indians exemplifying “next man up” thus far
May 20, 2013My wife made a brief and reluctant experience on the podcast to give her take. Honestly, she was only on for about three minutes before she ran out as quickly as she could. We did spoiler free talk for the first 10 minutes, so feel free to listen away whether you saw the movie or not.
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Star Trek Into Darkness
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Watching Wrath of Khan?
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My wife makes an appearance on the podcast
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Should the movie have aped the catalog so much?
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Rebooting the series and whether or not they’ll make a third one
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Did anyone need to really need that guy to be Khan?
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Just how perfect the effects are and how it allows movies to get back to characters
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A car alarm goes off in Brian’s background
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Who will the next group of writers be?
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Being super-entertained by an XD movie and whether or not we should micro-analyze
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Movies vs. films and the multiple tiers of summer movies
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Christopher Nolan and how much to trust him as a producer
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Kirk and whether he’s supposed to be smart or dumb like impression
- Battlestar Galactica and the comparisons to Star Trek
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Interesting review, everyone. Thank you. I am not a purist or Trekkie by any means, but I appreciate the philosophical and social issues that the films and the Next Generation provided me in my youth.
What bothers me about this latest film is that they seem to treat the philosophical dynamic between Kirk and Spock – between reason and emotion – very sloppily. In the Wrath, Spock shows his selflessness by risking his life for the crew. “The good of the many outweigh the good of the one.” Having Kirk imitate that exact moment that originally showed the essence of what made Spock a special character cheapened how they differ and their respective uniqueness.
The second aspect that bothered me is that the original Spock discloses too much information to the new Spock without explaining to the viewer why the old Spock would do that. The prime directive is to not interfere with relatively undeveloped civilizations. Isn’t Spock disclosing information to the new Spock the ultimate violation of that directive? He is not letting a younger version of himself exist independently. It’s absurd that Spock would do this or that the young Spock would solicit information. If they wanted to show that Spock had relaxed in his age, they should have explained that or had him make a speech about why he changed his perspective (maybe all living things have a will to exist?). Just making it seem as an acceptable action with merely a shrug was frustrating.