I just hope it has the ”feel” of the original TOS and not the 21st century feel of over emphasis on special effects, action and violence.

The only true way they can recapture the original TOS experience is when CGI gets to a point where they can flawlessly do CGI versions of Kirk Spock amd McCoy themsleve, and thats a ways off

(dead serious question)”

Dead serious answer, Harry.

I believe people should speak up and have opinions. I also believe that if you don’t have facts to back opinions, you can look like an as*. There are not a lot of facts floating around this yet.
I absolutely am tired of people being insulting toward the director and writers and hiding behind an internet handle. In my opinon, this is unwarranted and callous. IF this movie dies, then legit concerns can be raised. That potential date comes in May ‘09, not December.
I am “type A” and need to let go of this… because my heart literally can’t take this and what the economy is doing to me.
It may make some other posters cheer, but I am truly thinking of just reading the articles and not the posts. I need the information, but not the stress.
I depise the callous venom.

To wit, I was not comparing Shakespeare to Star Trek, I was comparing re-imagining Trek to re-writing Shakespeare.

(dead serious question)

And before one of you scolds me about “allowing people their opinions..” don’t bother
I don’t have a magic button to delete posts, so rant away. Some of the half truths and misconstrued bs I see posted amazes me. And assumptions galore. We see Spock (the younger) have an emotional moment on a two minute trailer and it’s assumed he’s a raving loon. JJ makes ANY kind of statement on fans, or movies for fans or not fans and he’s killing the franchise, killing someone’s childhood or hates Trekkers, Trekkies or the like.
I know you all want it NOW, but quit reading between the lines to see what you want to believe.

And the “lied to” statements… give me a break.
It’s a movie about a beloved story…but don’t have a stroke over it.

‘I’m not really crazy about the current Doctor Who either, although I do enjoy it. It can be more than a bit heavy-handed at times, can’t it?’

Yeah, it demonstrates all the heavy-handed, extremist politics the BBC is so often accused of without any attempt to laugh at the ridiculousness of its own views, making it seem extremely self-righteous!

Old Who, like Star Trek: TOS worked well with ***subtle*** allegory and satire of all sides of the debate. Nu-Who rams its lessons down the viewers’ throats (a failing, albeit to a much lesser extent, of TNG as well) which, to me, demonstrates a lack of skill and maturity on the part of the writers. It’s as if, given less, Old Who writers made more of what they had.

SJA, being an out and out kids’ show, running 25 minutes per episode, doesn’t have time to soapbox. it gets on with telling a fun action adventure yarn. Elizabeth Sladen is wonderful as the older Sarah Jane, bringing all the quirkiness and maturity I’d expect of our favourite Time Lord. She’s the best Doctor in years ironically. She even gets the Brigadier involved at one point apparently (not seen that episode yet!)

For me, Nu-Who is desperately badly paced. It’s way to manic, not helped by the OTT manner in which Eccleston and Tennant have been required to play their roles. You really want to shake them and tell them to stop packing the speed pills!

What I’d really like to see is the spin-offs deal, at some point, with past companions. There have obviously been a lot of them and, like Sarah Jane, can’t have all gone back to a ‘normal’ life! Whatever happened to characters like Jamie, Zoe, Nyssa, Dorothy, Turlough, Leela and so on? I mean the Virgin novels even hinted that Leela and Andred were The Doctor’s parents!

Seeing Sarah Jane in action proves that you can’t just go back to a normal life after travelling with the Doctor!

I’m not really crazy about the current Doctor Who either, although I do enjoy it. It can be more than a bit heavy-handed at times, can’t it?

This is exactly what is bugging me about the whole thing. But you know, I don’t think they will entirely disappear. The timeline is perhaps almost restored and that allows wiggle room for all sorts of new adventures and differences without be beholden to that word – CANON. Heh heh. Again, I’m not even necessarily against change….it’s just the changes we’re hearing that have me worried– the mickey mouse hands, kirk watching Enterprise being built at that age in the trailer, the sneaking of Kirk on board by Bones, Kirk and Spock ending up in command — that just don’t seem plausible in ANY timeline.

“As for Spock, his upbringing on Vulcan may be more in line with the standard TOS timeline. Now he just meets Kirk way earlier,during his ‘emotive’ phase”

It’s odd but I always thought that if anything he’d be super repressed once leaving Vulcan just to show everyone that he IS a good Vulcan. I know we saw a very emotional Spock in Menagerie but I chaulked that up to the fact those scenes were done with a very different character — Number One was going to be the unemotional one in that first pilot. Spock wasn’t Spock yet.

Liz:

I know that Closet subscribes to the theory that the time-change will explain everything at the end, but why spend two hours developing characters who may end up disappearing at the end?

As for Spock, his upbringing on Vulcan may be more in line with the standard TOS timeline. Now he just meets Kirk way earlier,during his ‘emotive’ phase