Re: Star Trek to return in '08
- From: "Terrell Miller" <millerto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 21:28:33 -0400
"LooseChanj" <LooseChanj@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Enjoy Generations, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis immensely,
though
again I'm not by any means a TNG fan. But they're great movies, much
better
acting and character development than TOS (granted, any positive fraction
is
by definition >0).
Insurrection was boring re-hash, and Nemesis was just...utter crap.
Visually
impressive, but the story felt like something a 10 year old would write.
The
main bad guy being a clone of Picard is just...stupid. There are more
than 10
people in the universe dorks. There are even more than 10 *important*
people
in the universe. Let's feature some of them shall we? This "we have a
set of
characters and no one else exists" idea is one reason I'm leery of this
new
Kirk/Spock at the Academy movie.
you notice how Jack Ryan is the only CIA agent who ever goes out in the
field, besides Mr. Clark?
Same reason: franchises are built around main characters (the actors
portraying same get franchise salaries, not to mention), so the stories
focus on them. Clancy's worst-selling books are the ones without Ryan
playing a major role in them. The dullest CSI episodes are the ones without
Grissom. Etc., etc.
It's just a structural limitation of a series, whether movies, books or TV
shows. Nemesis wasn't remotely special that way.
--
Terrell Miller
millerto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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