But yeah no consider the alternative, AOS Spock. Zachary Quinto IS conventionally good-looking, but AOS Spock doesn’t pop. He’s not the one that makes people swoon. Now granted, straight girls may not be into this Spock because he’s played by a gay man, but I think it’s more than that. AOS Spock, like Kirk, isn’t so much a character as a caricature. On some level Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman (the writers of Star Trek 2009 and Into Darkness) get the appeal of Spock: he’s supposed to be emotionless but he’s secretly not, but they don’t really know how to write Spock as a person. He’s pretty much just an emotionless blank slate who has outbursts of emotions when the plot requires it. There are no layers. TOS Spock was logical and aloof, but also witty, charming, sassy, and at times, even nurturing. AOS Spock gets a well placed line or two (“I am displaying multiple attitudes, sir. To which are you referring?”), but there’s just none of that je ne sais quoi that made Spock so damn lovable. I don’t think it’s on Quinto’s performance either, because he played the character a damn sight better in Beyond when he was being fed lines by an actual fan of Star Trek, Simon Pegg. But for the most part he’s just boring and unengaging and truly alien, which is why I think people don’t thirst over him the same way they do Nimoy. When you put the bangs, eyebrows, and ears on Quinto, it just looks like high quality cosplay.
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