Star Trek - Into Darkness

Jait

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Pretty sure there was lens flare in the opening scenes. Not that I give a shit, but I did notice it at the first scene on the bridge when Spock is heading to the volcano.

This argument reminds me of people who call any metal band they don't like "nu metal"
Yeah. I wish in the 1980s The Rolling Stones called GnR, Metallica, and all the rest Nu Metal. Fucking generations.
 

Djay

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Yeah, they really start hinting at stuff almost right out of the gate in season 2. Season one like Mist said can be rough but there is some good character development.

One thing I liked about DS9 is how important even minor characters turned out to be. The writting in that show was just a step above all other trek imo.
I've been trying to get into DS9 for a while, since everyone says it gets really good, but it took me about a year to get through the first two seasons. I felt a turn with about 5 episodes remaining in Season 2 and I breezed through those episodes and just finished S3E2. Definitely worth it if the rest of the series stays like this, but it was like pulling teeth to get here.
 

Tarrant

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Glad you're enjoying it so far. It's crazy but the show only continues to get better and better and never looks back.
 

Tuco

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It was an attempt to classify a genre that's way too generic. Lithose made a better post about it pages back.

http://www.rerolled.org/showthread.p...l=1#post208958
I think the problem with the quote

"Rod Serling claimed that the former was "the improbable made possible" (Sci-Fiction) while the latter was "the impossible made probable" (Fantasy)"

Is that it excludes too much of what we call scifi. Plus it's hard for me to separate one section of a universe from another section. Ex as soon as Q comes on the scene in star trek it lessens the science-feel of the entire thing.

For me it's easier to refer to scifi as any fiction focused on science and especially in the future and just ignore the designation of science fantasy.
 

Caliane

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I think the problem with the quote

"Rod Serling claimed that the former was "the improbable made possible" (Sci-Fiction) while the latter was "the impossible made probable" (Fantasy)"

Is that it excludes too much of what we call scifi. Plus it's hard for me to separate one section of a universe from another section. Ex as soon as Q comes on the scene in star trek it lessens the science-feel of the entire thing.

For me it's easier to refer to scifi as any fiction focused on science and especially in the future and just ignore the designation of science fantasy.
nah. its a good distinction.
you just need to accept there is a scale, and its not black and white.
And additionally, being one or the other, doesnt mean elements of the other can't find its way in.
Science fiction can have fantastical elements in it. if those fantastical elements outnumber the plausible, then it kindof shifts. or if its an important element, then it moves to fantasy.
 

supertouch_sl

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benedict cumberbatch's depiction of khan was much better than the original. he's one of the better villains i've seen in the last decade.
 

Dyvim

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His overacting was mainly vocal/pronouncation. Ive seen a dubbed version of ID and could only tell be lip reading he was trying kind hard on the voice acting.
Although i wouldve liked if they had him wear some kind of muscle suit to better match the enhanced strenght by genetic engineering look.
 

Wuyley_sl

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This may have been covered in the last 29 pages but I just saw this and why did they need Khan's blood to revive Kirk? Why not just crack open another person in the cryo caskets and take some of their blood to heal him?
 

Rezz

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This argument reminds me of people who call any metal band they don't like "nu metal"
Correct.

Movie was good/fun (plot-hole-no-jutsu aside) and definitely still maintained the focus that the previous Star Trek movies prior to the 2009 film carried. Worth the money and I hope it continues to spawn successor films.
 

Dyvim

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This may have been covered in the last 29 pages but I just saw this and why did they need Khan's blood to revive Kirk? Why not just crack open another person in the cryo caskets and take some of their blood to heal him?
Well they knew Khans blood will most liekely work, they werent that sure with the still frozen crewmembers, although it would quite possible work as well, but why take the risk when you still need to catch a potential terrorist roaming SF anyway? Plus we dont know what time/tricks/specialists it takes to unfreeze one of the others.
 

Tarrant

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Because "cracking another one open" would have meant either killing them or waking them up. They wouldn't kill someone like that...and after having to deal with Khan do you think they'd want to deal with or take the chance of having two of them up and about?
 

Tarrant

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Hmmm, that's true. Maybe since they already had tested Khans blood they wanted to use his not knowing if different things had been genetically done to toe others or not? -shrug- That seems plausible to me.