Star Trek! (yeah, me too...)

[healingmirth]

I 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.

Comments

[fenellaevangela]

I have restricted myself to pretty much the one community, over on LJ, because suddenly there are DOZENS of new ones and I'd rather not be overrun by the new fen, thanks :-P I've had good experiences with it, so far.

[healingmirth]

It's probably just as well. You know some people are going to post everything to 6 different comms until things die down, so it's spam^2.