October 2009 Archives

I finally saw the Star Trek movie. In a non-spoiler nutshell - Abrams has created an entire movie where teenage versions of our favorite heroes careen together in a haphazard fashion to reboot a failing franchise. There is no sense of purpose - no rational decisions - just a bunch of kneejerk decisions made by rash kids who then work through the fallout. It's muppet babies syndrome - fanfic has done this before. Remove a few decades and throw the canon to the wind to bring together Our Characters as youngsters. Meh. Clearly Abrams hasn't attended the same writing classes the rest of us get where the plot and character development builds and hangs together in an orderly fashion. Not that you couldn't tell this was so by observing the non-progression of Lost.