Trek Trailer?
Nov. 18th, 2008 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteYou would think that I of all people would have watched the trailer for the JJ Abrams Star Trek film.
I can't do it. I cannot make myself watch it, knowing that a young James Kirk is driving a present day sports car. I am really annoyed at the very thought of it. Annoyed at the most basic fanboy level by the disregard for canon, though I know that canon is pretty much going bye bye. Annoyed at the notion of Kirk being the kind of kid who would race around in a sports car. Annoyed that anyone is even driving a car in the future. Annoyed at the "presentism" yet another filmmaker feels is needed to make his vision of the future accessible to a wide audience by making our time the only time that matters to the future. Annoyed at the very idea of building the most advanced machine ever designed outdoors in a cornfield. Yes, I will watch it at some point. And unless the word of mouth is abysmal, I will pay to see the film. I will accept that this is far more of a reboot than was previously indicated, and that maybe a reboot is needed. But my excitement for the project is a lot lower than I hoped it would be.
But what I really wanted to comment on is the contempt I am seeing for the old school fans for criticizing the trailer. There is a lot of hostility out there. Towards us. Towards even the original show. Towards any suggestion that we are allowed to love our show and to say "this isn't what we love." So I will say it now. I am an old school Trekkie. My love for the original series remains undimmed. My devotion to canon remains strong. And my feeling that you can make a Star Trek film that is at once new and in canon is also strong.
And that is all I have to say for now. Perhaps once I see the trailer, I will have something else to say.
I can't do it. I cannot make myself watch it, knowing that a young James Kirk is driving a present day sports car. I am really annoyed at the very thought of it. Annoyed at the most basic fanboy level by the disregard for canon, though I know that canon is pretty much going bye bye. Annoyed at the notion of Kirk being the kind of kid who would race around in a sports car. Annoyed that anyone is even driving a car in the future. Annoyed at the "presentism" yet another filmmaker feels is needed to make his vision of the future accessible to a wide audience by making our time the only time that matters to the future. Annoyed at the very idea of building the most advanced machine ever designed outdoors in a cornfield. Yes, I will watch it at some point. And unless the word of mouth is abysmal, I will pay to see the film. I will accept that this is far more of a reboot than was previously indicated, and that maybe a reboot is needed. But my excitement for the project is a lot lower than I hoped it would be.
But what I really wanted to comment on is the contempt I am seeing for the old school fans for criticizing the trailer. There is a lot of hostility out there. Towards us. Towards even the original show. Towards any suggestion that we are allowed to love our show and to say "this isn't what we love." So I will say it now. I am an old school Trekkie. My love for the original series remains undimmed. My devotion to canon remains strong. And my feeling that you can make a Star Trek film that is at once new and in canon is also strong.
And that is all I have to say for now. Perhaps once I see the trailer, I will have something else to say.
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Date: Nov. 18th, 2008 09:17 pm (UTC)I'll stick to the books and hope for more New Frontier, the cast and crew that is continuing to go where no one has gone before, at least in my head...