Well, crap. Now I'm wishing I'd been there with you to see it, although you'd have hated seeing it with me pestering you with a million questions.
So, I was 11 when Wrath of Khan came out and that's when I saw it (over 30 years ago). I couldn't remember the original story at all and now I'm seeing I definitely missed things. A LOT OF THINGS. ACK. Reading over the wikipedia entry, I see they merged things from Wrath of Khan into the reboot too. Ugh, the remix is making my head spin.
Overall I really liked the movie. I actually did not like action!Khan. BC is too much Sherlock in my head and so I find it jarring when he's fighting, but the thinking/cold-blooded calculation part worked really well for me.
I was so happy to see Uhura throughout this one. She didn't disappear and I loved the questions Kirk was asking her about fighting with Spock. (For the record, my husband could be Spock's brother.) I totally see an OT3 there too, or at the very least, a triangle:D
Carol Marcus was very distracting. No clue what that was about. Set up for something in the next movie?
SIMON PEGG! And the guy who plays Checkov is still fucking adorable.
What is Cupcake?
I wish they had done more with the Klingons. That one guy whose face we actually saw looked fantastic.
Apparently I have many thoughts on this. Time for me to go work on podfic. :D
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So, I was 11 when Wrath of Khan came out and that's when I saw it (over 30 years ago). I couldn't remember the original story at all and now I'm seeing I definitely missed things. A LOT OF THINGS. ACK. Reading over the wikipedia entry, I see they merged things from Wrath of Khan into the reboot too. Ugh, the remix is making my head spin.
Overall I really liked the movie. I actually did not like action!Khan. BC is too much Sherlock in my head and so I find it jarring when he's fighting, but the thinking/cold-blooded calculation part worked really well for me.
I was so happy to see Uhura throughout this one. She didn't disappear and I loved the questions Kirk was asking her about fighting with Spock. (For the record, my husband could be Spock's brother.) I totally see an OT3 there too, or at the very least, a triangle:D
Carol Marcus was very distracting. No clue what that was about. Set up for something in the next movie?
SIMON PEGG! And the guy who plays Checkov is still fucking adorable.
What is Cupcake?
I wish they had done more with the Klingons. That one guy whose face we actually saw looked fantastic.
Apparently I have many thoughts on this. Time for me to go work on podfic. :D