Even for Trek physics, yeah, there's some really awful stuff going on there, and I went into it forewarned and forearmed with reviews like this one (or, hell, even this one) and I still had my disbelief adequately suspended in the context of the film's through-line. Not that the criticisms of the physics or the plot-driven conveniences (Scotty/Spock, the dramatic pull from the singularity) are invalid, just that I can see why they're there -- the chase and the escape especially iron out what'd be some relatively slow moments of the movie, and I think (I hope) they were aiming for a frenetic film, trying to get more kinesis in one Trek film than all the others put together, and on that note I can see why they did what they did....
Nimoy's first appearance...I think I was reading stone-cold stoicism when we should've been reading something else at that point, and you're right -- especially given the colors the younger Spock has shown, there could've been more there, and yes, we do see that much more clearly in the end. (So what does future!Spock do now?) Urban was uber-Kelley, yeah, but I think that appealed more to my nostalgia enough to get a pass from me. Am looking forward to the DVD, if only for the cut Klingon scene....
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Date: 2009-05-26 05:53 pm (UTC)Nimoy's first appearance...I think I was reading stone-cold stoicism when we should've been reading something else at that point, and you're right -- especially given the colors the younger Spock has shown, there could've been more there, and yes, we do see that much more clearly in the end. (So what does future!Spock do now?) Urban was uber-Kelley, yeah, but I think that appealed more to my nostalgia enough to get a pass from me. Am looking forward to the DVD, if only for the cut Klingon scene....