Bastiches be messin' with my childhood! Seriously, I enjoyed the movie, but while I watched it the first time I was also expecting them to hit the reset button, swing back around the Earth and turn back time because omg they blew up Vulcan. I'm OK with it being AU, I really am, but the first time I saw this movie I didn't pass judgement on much because I wasn't sure it would stick.
Also, when I watched the movie the first time, I thought:
* that Spock was afraid of being accused of favouritism initially because Uhura was his best student;
* that Spock's expression right before she kissed him the first time meant "OMGWTFBBQ what is she doing?" especially after he told her to go do her job;
* that the oral sensitivity comments were initially meant to be funny only to the audience.
It was when he snogged her that last time and said her name that I realised they were actually meant to be dating, thanks to his unconvincing portrayal of het Vulcan desire up to that point--remember Zarabeth? remember Leila? IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THAT!
Then it was me doing the OMGWTFBBQ dance.
Overall I liked the movie, but not what they did to Uhura, or to Spock with the relationship with Uhura, or the way that they showed Winona's childbirth scene in juxtaposition with the pictures of Nero's pregnant wife and Amanda's death (reducing all three of those women to emotional goads for male characters).
It's not like I expected a remake of TOS to be feminist; TOS wasn't, although it was progressive for its time, and I loved how independent Uhura was, compared to Janice Rand and Christine Chapel with their goofy crushes on Kirk and Spock. I know there was a Christine; McCoy mentioned her. But it seems like they gave half her personality to Uhura, which sucks because Uhura had a better one!
One of my criticisms of TNG was that a lot of the fun campy sexy stuff was gone, that in the process of making it less sexist they made it less sexy; and I was actually pleased with what they did with Gaila, bringing back the sexy green girl but as an equal, not a slave. But they had to go and screw with the characters of Uhura and Amanda, who DID bring the awesome in TOS... :/
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Also, when I watched the movie the first time, I thought:
* that Spock was afraid of being accused of favouritism initially because Uhura was his best student;
* that Spock's expression right before she kissed him the first time meant "OMGWTFBBQ what is she doing?" especially after he told her to go do her job;
* that the oral sensitivity comments were initially meant to be funny only to the audience.
It was when he snogged her that last time and said her name that I realised they were actually meant to be dating, thanks to his unconvincing portrayal of het Vulcan desire up to that point--remember Zarabeth? remember Leila? IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THAT!
Then it was me doing the OMGWTFBBQ dance.
Overall I liked the movie, but not what they did to Uhura, or to Spock with the relationship with Uhura, or the way that they showed Winona's childbirth scene in juxtaposition with the pictures of Nero's pregnant wife and Amanda's death (reducing all three of those women to emotional goads for male characters).
It's not like I expected a remake of TOS to be feminist; TOS wasn't, although it was progressive for its time, and I loved how independent Uhura was, compared to Janice Rand and Christine Chapel with their goofy crushes on Kirk and Spock. I know there was a Christine; McCoy mentioned her. But it seems like they gave half her personality to Uhura, which sucks because Uhura had a better one!
One of my criticisms of TNG was that a lot of the fun campy sexy stuff was gone, that in the process of making it less sexist they made it less sexy; and I was actually pleased with what they did with Gaila, bringing back the sexy green girl but as an equal, not a slave. But they had to go and screw with the characters of Uhura and Amanda, who DID bring the awesome in TOS... :/