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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-11-08 03:35 pm

[ SECRET POST #2867 ]


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Re: Still better than Spock/Uhura

(Anonymous) 2014-11-09 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Except…K/S isn't canon. The reboots show how they go from disliking each other to grudging respect to friendship. Which gives it a lot more leeway than something like the canon relationship of Spock and Uhura which the writers couldn't even be bothered to develop. Just stuck them together to advance Spock's emotional development supposedly.

Re: Still better than Spock/Uhura

(Anonymous) 2014-11-09 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
Nonsense. They're both relationships and both criticized for the same reason here:bad writing.
Romance isn't the only kind of relationship that can be badly written. And the k/s friendship is the main thing in these movies, unlike s/u, the fact that their friendship has no build up and sucks overal is more serious and worse because the writers have all the screentime and chances to do well with them, but they just don't.

Re: Still better than Spock/Uhura

(Anonymous) 2014-11-09 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe you think it's bad writing -- you're entitled to that opinion.

And I'll agree that it's not perfect by any stretch.

But, from where I'm standing, it's far and away the best written aspect of the reboot films which, as I've said, I believe is precisely because they can rely on TOS so much. And TOS had much, much better writers.

I think their relationship has the best build up in the new films. We see them go from dislike, to being forced to work together and developing respect and tolerance of one's abilities, to caring about one another as members of the crew, to deeply understanding one another's thought processes and becoming friends. In my opinion, that's a well-developed arc.

It's certainly a TON more than Spock and Uhura who are just together from the get-go (with no explanation, no scenes of them falling in love or even just being friends first) even when Spock is acting like a tool.

That's my opinion.

Re: Still better than Spock/Uhura

(Anonymous) 2014-11-10 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, no it's not. You have the second movie TELLING YOU that these two are best friends, but I don't believe it one bit. Not after the lukewarm grudging respect in the first film. That kind of "best friendship" takes YEARS to build that they are trying to say is there and the gap between the films is nowhere near that.

Also, the fact that this "friendship" was built in the game that most people didn't even play? Yeah, no. That's bad writing.

Reguardless of Spock/Uhura and any other relationship in the films, Kirk/Spock is handled badly and shits all over the TOS version. And I LIKE the movies.