HOLY SHIT THAT WAS AWESOME.
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damkiannaOMG OMG OMG OMG. AWESOME. *flails* ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥!
That settles it, I will love Star Trek until the day I die. Hot damn.
Ahem.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuude. Kirk! Spock! McCoy! Uhura! Sulu! Chekov! Scotty! I love you all like crazy. I am not used to finding Bones physically attractive, but he was Karl Urban, and also AWESOME, so I totally did. I was afraid Sylar!Spock would freak me out - and he already had, a little, in previews and stills - but he didn't, not at all, which is a testament to Zachary Quinto's AWESOMENESS.
... Possibly I should try to stop capitalizing that word every time I use it.
My only quibble was with the Spock/Uhura - it was hot, don't get me wrong, but it felt a little bit OOC. The first scene in the turbolift, I could buy, but making out on the transporter pad in public? o.O Really? That, uh, doesn't seem very like Spock.
(Of course, this might not be a totally valid quibble. Maybe it was a spasm of weak characterization - or simply the fact that anybody faced with a Niota Uhura who felt like kissing them would go with it, even a Vulcan, because, HOT - but it's also entirely possible that I'm just a crazy K/S shipper with goggles so tight they might as well be welded to my face. I admit it.)
Aside from that? Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. AWESOME. The whole thing was just - damn. DAMN. *flails* There were parts that might even have worked for me solely because I am a crazy K/S shipper with goggles so tight they might as well be welded to my face. For example, my dad found the moment where Canon!Spock tells Sylar!Spock that he didn't want to deprive him of the CRAZY AWESOME FRIENDSHIP he was going to have with Kirk trite and unbelievable. But it made perfect sense to me, because my brain automatically replaced "CRAZY AWESOME FRIENDSHIP" with "FOREVER-TYPE SOUL-BONDY TRUE LOVE". *hands*
And I loved the shout-outs - how Olsen, who wears a red jumpsuit in what I think was his only scene, dies (to prove the situation is serious, to borrow a line from Galaxy Quest), and Sulu knows how to fence, and most people don't know Uhura's first name, and Sylar!Spock did the eyebrow and the neck pinch, and there was (I think) a very brief shot or two including Nurse Chapel. The second the camera started that great glorious pan over the name and serial number of the Enterprise, my sister and I muttered, in unison, "no bloody A, B, C, or D!"
In conclusion: A++++++++++ WOULD WATCH AGAIN (AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN-), I will campaign as long as I have to in order to get my mother to agree to get this on DVD. Harry Potter may have been the gateway to online fandom for me, but Star Trek was the gateway to fannishness, the thing that showed me what it felt like to immerse myself in a source text and love it, and I will never, ever let it go.
... Man, I'm getting a little verklempt, here. I'm going to go finish bibbling about Starship Troopers before I actually start crying or something. :D
That settles it, I will love Star Trek until the day I die. Hot damn.
Ahem.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuude. Kirk! Spock! McCoy! Uhura! Sulu! Chekov! Scotty! I love you all like crazy. I am not used to finding Bones physically attractive, but he was Karl Urban, and also AWESOME, so I totally did. I was afraid Sylar!Spock would freak me out - and he already had, a little, in previews and stills - but he didn't, not at all, which is a testament to Zachary Quinto's AWESOMENESS.
... Possibly I should try to stop capitalizing that word every time I use it.
My only quibble was with the Spock/Uhura - it was hot, don't get me wrong, but it felt a little bit OOC. The first scene in the turbolift, I could buy, but making out on the transporter pad in public? o.O Really? That, uh, doesn't seem very like Spock.
(Of course, this might not be a totally valid quibble. Maybe it was a spasm of weak characterization - or simply the fact that anybody faced with a Niota Uhura who felt like kissing them would go with it, even a Vulcan, because, HOT - but it's also entirely possible that I'm just a crazy K/S shipper with goggles so tight they might as well be welded to my face. I admit it.)
Aside from that? Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. AWESOME. The whole thing was just - damn. DAMN. *flails* There were parts that might even have worked for me solely because I am a crazy K/S shipper with goggles so tight they might as well be welded to my face. For example, my dad found the moment where Canon!Spock tells Sylar!Spock that he didn't want to deprive him of the CRAZY AWESOME FRIENDSHIP he was going to have with Kirk trite and unbelievable. But it made perfect sense to me, because my brain automatically replaced "CRAZY AWESOME FRIENDSHIP" with "FOREVER-TYPE SOUL-BONDY TRUE LOVE". *hands*
And I loved the shout-outs - how Olsen, who wears a red jumpsuit in what I think was his only scene, dies (to prove the situation is serious, to borrow a line from Galaxy Quest), and Sulu knows how to fence, and most people don't know Uhura's first name, and Sylar!Spock did the eyebrow and the neck pinch, and there was (I think) a very brief shot or two including Nurse Chapel. The second the camera started that great glorious pan over the name and serial number of the Enterprise, my sister and I muttered, in unison, "no bloody A, B, C, or D!"
In conclusion: A++++++++++ WOULD WATCH AGAIN (AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN-), I will campaign as long as I have to in order to get my mother to agree to get this on DVD. Harry Potter may have been the gateway to online fandom for me, but Star Trek was the gateway to fannishness, the thing that showed me what it felt like to immerse myself in a source text and love it, and I will never, ever let it go.
... Man, I'm getting a little verklempt, here. I'm going to go finish bibbling about Starship Troopers before I actually start crying or something. :D
