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Star Trek! (yeah, me too...)
May. 11th, 2009 06:46 pmI wasn't planning on seeing Star Trek, but then there was a veritable flist explosion of squee, and I am weak. I was prepared to be more excited by the trailers (and I was! GI Joe! 9! Transformers! Matt Lauer Can Suck it Land of the Lost! (okay, maybe notsomuch that last one)
By some accident, I managed to be completely unspoiled for Star Trek. As in, I spent the first 5 minutes fascinated and somewhat confused. And also, crying. Heroic sacrifice! Way to get attached to characters in under 30 seconds, self. And no, I'm not talking about you, Cameron. I wasn't 100% sure who the characters were until they started talking.
I also didn't read any of the reviews, and I hadn't been to a movie in months and months until Wolverine, so I hadn't even seen the trailers except one on YouTube, forever ago. So, if I was supposed to know anything about the premise other than "they're younger" - I didn't.
Really, I can not say enough how much I was not intending to see this movie, but then I've got a reunion this weekend, and I figured it would give me something to talk about, if we ran out of conversation.
Now I'm thinking about going to see it again in IMAX.
So now I want, like, meta, and maybe some icons, but I am terrified of what I might find in the new Star Trek communities that are popping up. I want, like, awesome epic episode-type gen fic. Okay, maybe that's a lie. I think I'd read anything with Bones in it right now, but I'm sure that'll fade. But I can't remember the last time I thought something was so awesome that I was worried fandom would make it worse.
By some accident, I managed to be completely unspoiled for Star Trek. As in, I spent the first 5 minutes fascinated and somewhat confused. And also, crying. Heroic sacrifice! Way to get attached to characters in under 30 seconds, self. And no, I'm not talking about you, Cameron. I wasn't 100% sure who the characters were until they started talking.
I also didn't read any of the reviews, and I hadn't been to a movie in months and months until Wolverine, so I hadn't even seen the trailers except one on YouTube, forever ago. So, if I was supposed to know anything about the premise other than "they're younger" - I didn't.
Really, I can not say enough how much I was not intending to see this movie, but then I've got a reunion this weekend, and I figured it would give me something to talk about, if we ran out of conversation.
Now I'm thinking about going to see it again in IMAX.
So now I want, like, meta, and maybe some icons, but I am terrified of what I might find in the new Star Trek communities that are popping up. I want, like, awesome epic episode-type gen fic. Okay, maybe that's a lie. I think I'd read anything with Bones in it right now, but I'm sure that'll fade. But I can't remember the last time I thought something was so awesome that I was worried fandom would make it worse.
