The release of Revenge of the Sith was a bittersweet time for me. It was the film that I had most anticipated of the Prequel Trilogy. From the moment the Prequels were announced there was one scene that I most wanted to see, and I knew it would be a part of the finale, so it would be a long wait. It was the duel between Obi-wan and Anakin, the fateful battle that would leave a friendship shattered and the future of the galaxy forever altered.
The announcement of the Prequel Trilogy also came with the announcement that this would mark the end of the Star Wars saga on the big screen. Yes, we may have a 3D re-release, an anniversary screening or a special release like The Clone Wars , but no more true live action adventures with our heroes in the Galaxy, Far, Far Away.
Fast forward to October and an unexpected announcement. Lucasfilm and all of its properties had been sold to the Walt Disney Company. As if that was not enough, Disney announced that they were bringing the Star Wars saga back to the big screen. Production was to begin on Episode 7, among other projects. The one thing that we as fans knew would never happen, was actually going to happen. We are now roughly a year and a half into this new era of Star Wars. He could beat Spock at chess a stretch, by any imaging not by magic, but by indomitable tenacity and a creative spirit.
I love this film dearly but as someone at some otehr site I think pointed out, it also damaged the franchise. The problem was that this film was such a nuclear explosion of excietment within the fan community that all other Star Trek films, with both casts, were heavily influenced in story and plotting. The movies lost the capabliity of being about ideas and became about war, fighting, and killing, Don;t get me wrong I love me a good war picture, but Star Trek can be so much more than that.
I really really hope, but do not expect, the new crew will take on some ideas instead of villains in their future travels. I suppose you could put it down to the differences between Kirk being raised by his father and by his apparently asshole stepfather. I always had the impression that he tore apart the code and tweaked it so that it was just barely possible to eke out a win. Of course, it also made no sense that Spock created what was essentially a psychological test. The only way it really makes sense is that, in the course of their training simulations, they happen across it, and that each case is always slightly different.
Maybe people checked it out after it got good reviews. I also always figured original Kirk only tweaked the code so it was possible to win, not so that he could win without putting in any effort at all.
Agreement with essentially everything above. A wonderful film which really got the essential elements of Star Trek in a way that the first film hopelessly missed. I completely agree with bobsandiego 13, but, of course, the seeds of cinematic SF destruction were sown by Star Wars many years before. The hideous, unspeakable thing that J J Abrams has spawned does not offer any obvious entry point for serious thought.
How could Chekov, who by whatever retconned means knew Khan, have not remembered that the superman from the 20th century was stranded on a planet in the star system his ship was exploring?
And how does a planet just blow up, anyway? And what happened to the debris, which certainly would still be present only a few Terran years later?
And how exactly does a creature on a planet in the Ceti Alpha star system evolve so that it can form a symbiotic union with the brain of Homo sapiens , anyway? And do very senior Starfleet officers really have nothing better to do than to act out roles in cadet training simulator exercises? The sea battles were horrific, and the effects on the crews devastatingly depicted.
In practise, a space battle would be very short-lived, with not much room for the kind of dramatics shown in TWoK or in any of the series, but then that makes for a dull battle. Once the Langston field goes, the target ship is vaporised instantly. I wonder how much I would have enjoyed the episode had I seen it first. Eugene Myers — That mission summary is way too short!
I wanted a detailed breakdown of every single scene in the movie. Now I have no choice but to watch the movie over again. I always thought that was supposed to be a genuine outburst.
Your take on it makes a lot of sense and made me look at that scene in a whole new way. I took it to be genuine rage, too. Kirk had just had his ship wrecked, his crew killed, and a genocidal device wind up in the hands of a mocking genocidal maniac. It was unclear at that moment Kirk would prevail even if he got his ship back in order, and the possibility was very real Khan could have—as members of his crew advised—taken his toys and gone all jihad.
From what I remember of the battles is that Peter Weir never used an objective viewpoint. This is way Peter weir is one of the most talented directors out there he truly understands character and point of view.
No one else had ever done that. All other films about the Titantic disaster at some point move to a point of view from a life boat and the human cost, the human loss become diluted and indestinct. The more I think about it, the more convinced I am. Does Kirk have any good reason to keep his friends in the dark though?
Or does he just want to seem even more impressive? Take a look at this! They want the characters to find out visually instead of just having things told to them. It does make Kirk seem like a bit of a jerk though. It would have been so easy to reassure everyone that things would be okay, instead of just acting smug while everyone around him was worried.
There are moments when he almost seems to know this himself. I never really understood that complaint. My favorite example: the dudes lifting up grates to release the torpedoes. Why is it that all these years later, Chekov is only an XO and Uhura is only a commander? And yeah the retcon makes no sense. Eugene and I had plenty of heated words about it, but that scene was just loathsome. In my mind, Kirk reprogrammed the scenario to make it winnable. To make it possible to win.
Re: taking it multiple times, that actually makes sense to me. I would imagine that even the loose tongues of Starfleet cadets would keep the real nature of the test secret for future graduating classes. To beat a dead horse take that, horse! This has become de rigueur for all movies, but especially science fiction. The first hour is kind of interesting, a slow unfolding of information about this world; the second hour is a Jerry Bruckheimer film.
I watched this movie twice before doing my review and the scene plays much differently than I had remembered. Both before and after that moment, note that Kirk looks completely nonplussed. David and Carol and even Saavik are freaking out a little about being trapped there for eternity, but Kirk is just taking a stroll.
The falling crap is the rigging coming down and the lifting gates are the guns being run out. Kirk made his serious mistake Saavik is to Kirk as Joachim is to Khan when he left his shields down.
And it was Spock who suggested taking their tactics into 3D. Debris always falls from the ceiling. All sorts of crap fell on the Romulans in Balance of Terror, the Constellation is trashed all episode. I wonder how it works? I mean — space is 3D. Having a space traveller forget about three-dimensional navigation is completely unbelievable, and to have Kirk , of all people, forget about it is the single weakest point in the entire film. It shows just how limited are the imaginations of the people who write these things, Meyers included.
I disagree. I wonder how old David was last time Jim visited. As for Starfleet visiting Khan for 15 years. I always thought that Starfleet had visited at least once, maybe a few years after Kirk put them on the planet. And they found evidence that Ceti Alpha V had exploded, taking Khan and his followers with it. Maybe V and VI were very similar and in close orbits. But it would explain why no one followed up again and why there was no particular note in the records when Reliant visited the system over a decade later.
Everyone thought Khan and his men and the planet were gone already. Were we together? Were we going to be? You had your world and I had mine. And I wanted him in mine, not chasing through the universe with his father.
My son. And what am I feeling? But for Khan, makes sense to me. Ausfresser is among a number of players that find the awkward rules wording on the older cards endearing. For those who want to spend a little more, the format is designed for people who build their decks slowly, as they can afford it, over a period of years. I also play Stasis from time to time. Since then, I've expanded the list to include white to splash Disenchant a staple of the format and Swords to Plowshares.
Television seasons or series, as is the preferred term there tend to be much shorter than in the US, often made up of only stories a year in the case of the original Doctor Who , broken down as it was into multiple mini-serials this still averages out to about 24 half-hour episodes a year, but the difference here is that they were all considered part of the same story, and thus the same general idea.
Recall Patrick McGoohan considered The Prisoner padded at only seventeen episodes and was ultimately unhappy with the way the network handled that show. Flex August 19, pm. I remember being pretty disappointed when I first saw this episode. Especially as a kid I must have been under 10 when I first saw it , the idea of having years of your life ripped away freaked me out. The world was already changing pretty rapidly, as it does at that age, and the idea that you'd just skip whole chunks of your own growth was unsettling.
Plus, the makeup effects seemed appropriately disturbing. A disappointment, then, that the episode doesn't really go anywhere in that direction. Or play into a proto-Cronenberg kind of body horror that would have been interesting. It just sort of… sits there. It's not like the story of most of the original series isn't kernels of ideas that don't succeed in practice, but at least in most episodes you have some absurdly good performances from the lead cast as well as the generally garish and delightful visual aesthetic of the show.
But you don't even really have that here. Everything is flat and listless. Adam Riggio August 19, pm. Increasingly I get the feeling that television production in the USA in the s had a dearth of writers who fully understood what science-fiction could do.
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