Hi, hope you're doing fine 🤗🥰
Just saw you like Star Trek ? What are your thoughts about TOS vs the 2009 remake movies ? Also your thoughts on Spirk ? 👀
(Loved to see some Star Trek content pop on my page, I didn't expect that in the middle of my Inazuma Eleven oriented feed ahah)
Oh hi!! Such a pleasure to see you in my asks!! :D I hope you’re doing good as well. ^^
So yeah, I kind of accidentally stumbled into Star Trek TOS last October and I’ve been obsessed ever since ^^’ (you can bet I’ve thought about making Inazuma crossovers hghjhgfghj). I’ve watched the whole original series and the six subsequent movies (+ the Animated Series of course tehehehe), and right now I’m on the last season of TNG. I’ve been enjoying it a lot, but it doesn’t tickle my brain quite like TOS does, for reasons unknown to me. :p Hyperfixations are capricious like that —well, I’m not teaching you anything here. x) TOS is just so BEAUTIFUL and SINCERE and HOPEFUL and CAMPY -oh my god the sheer amount of camp is incredible- and it’s about LOVE and UGHHHH it makes my brain short-circuit. ;—;
And yeah, I’ve watched the AOS trilogy… I actually told myself I wouldn’t talk about them too much on my blog because of how many Complex Feelings I have about them and I thought no one would care about it, but well… You gave me an opportunity to yap, so I will YAP, be warned!! >:D
I saw on your blog that you’re a fan of the reboot movies (or at least you were in 2018) so I’m kind of afraid to share my opinion kjhgfdfg, but well, you did ask so uh… I kinda hate them?? o///o
Sdfujhfdfghj okay that’s inaccurate, because they do bring me a great deal of joy (ESPECIALLY the first two), so I guess you could call them my most Dearly Beloathed movies? Like movies that I love to hate. The third movie is genuinely okay in my opinion, so it brings me the least amount of joy (paradoxical, but you get what I mean).
I guess if I had watched these movies without being a TOS fan I wouldn’t have such strong feelings on them, but as it stands, they just kinda betray everything I like about Star Trek. I tried to go into them with an open mind, thinking “okay, this was made for a new audience, it’s with different takes on the characters, it’s gonna be its own thing…” but I quickly realised that, um… no? These movies (again, especially the first two) actually RELIED on me having prior Trek knowledge (like Nimoy’s Spock showing up in the first movie, and Khan and Carol Marcus in the second). So I was like, which is it?? Should I take this as its own new take on the franchise or as a fan-service redux of the old stuff?? To me, the movies were failing at being either of these (failing at being a new thing because of how much it relied on previous instalments, and failing at pleasing old fans because the characters and writing were simply inferior and it WASN’T EVEN CAMPY). So at first I was confused and frustrated with this, but then as I thought about it more and more, it kinda started to become hilarious? The second movie especially relied SO MUCH on the audience having prior knowledge of the franchise that I couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it all (“My name… is Khan” DUDE THEY DON’T KNOW YOU THEY DON’T CARE. ALSO they redid Spock’s death scene but reversed and with none of the emotional impact HFJXHCHDHDHC). I could go into detail about it for hours and hours but uh, no one wants that, so I’ll stop there for now. ^^’
The third movie actually succeeds at being a movie that can stand on its own so it’s not nearly as funny. :/ But I’m certainly not gonna complain about it being competent. x)
Sorry if I’ve been mean to these films, I really want to stress that they bring me much joy and that, at the end of the day, I’m very glad that they exist.
Spirk is the greatest love story to ever grace television obviously. These are two people that simply BELONG together and you dont even need to ship them to see that. EVERYONE sees that. But also my opinion is that Bones needs to be there as well or else there is no point.
Thank you very very much for your ask and for giving me a space to ramble my little heart out. <3 Sorry if I wrote too much jvjfjfkg I guess I had a lot to say. (°v°)