“This is where the frontier pushes back.” It’s a simple line, but laced in that is a pretty potent metaphor if that’s where this is going. It still doesn’t answer how it’s explored, but does suggest some potent storylines.

No problem. I could give you the reasons I love the film and the film critic-y reasons it actually got that highly rated, but it is a bit of a topic filibuster.

As much as I’ve tried to speak for the critical side, I am hopeful for this film. Pegg is definitely a Star Trek guy. Lin I think may be as well but I haven’t seen his take yet (and I’d acknowledge that.)

It wasn’t meant as an argument. It was just a realist’s perspective. It’s just not anything I’d imagine he feels bad about in the slightest. I wish I had a good comparison, it’s just really rare for a film series to have it’s worst film be rated an 87%. Star Wars, The Godfather, Ironman... nothing I can think of…

Thing was, the worst Nolan made was better than a majority of Marvel’s output (only 2 points off CA:TWS) and better than the rest of the DC output save outliers like the two original Superman films. So I doubt he loses much sleep.

Or it could be that it had simply done the same thing until it had expended 3x30+3x7x24 + Enterprise’s episodes. Stargate disappeared for the same reason. Star Wars and Marvel and DC both have some catching up to do before they’ve made that much film.

Basically if that was your Star Trek book report, you failed. Those are plot descriptions, not the concepts or metaphors in them. I’ll simplify. You’re basically correct for Star Trek I, II, V, Generations, Nemesis, and Abrams I and II. Insurrection was bad, but not shallow. The rest have themes and other things going…

Not quite true. If they’d actually paid off the more cerebral Star Treky stuff, at worst the 09 only Star Trek fans would have mildly complained about slow but would have been largely drowned out by the cheering core fanbase. If they’d mixed up the pace of the trailer, you might not have had either problem.

The thing about pitching is they don’t need to take the whole concept to borrow the ideas. And Dorn’s not an idiot, he knows that. For him it’s about his love of the material and how he would do it. But if the worst that happens is he gets some “Story By” credits or they buy into him as a consulting producer, he still…

Tangential but relevant: Joss Whedon was discussing with students at Oxford this same idea about the near impossibility of simply creating art and having people discover it after it’s been made. And to some extent he’s lamenting things, but at the same time it does highlight the difference you’re talking about. It’s…

Honestly, IO9 itself has changed multiple times over the years and that “family” feeling really was specific to certain groups of users and always is. Five years ago, I knew most of the users and participated frequently. Now, I tend to have mostly contrarian viewpoints because those users have turned over to different…

I honestly don’t understand something in this article. The article takes the stance that the majority of players of these games are above the ages of 13-18 to make it’s point about the sexualization of minors. If you want to make that point ok.

Umm... Sony has owned the license exclusively we have largely seen the support for Parker go away and support for Miles Morales go up not to mention Spider Gwen. As much as Marvel isn’t responsible for the social dynamics involved in that, it is highly questionable if they had the property that that would be…

The Death Star could have vectored in properly and not had to clear the planet. You know, plot ‘n stuff.

While I can appreciate that viewpoint and I’ll just add the “agree to disagree disclaimer”, I don’t think setting it in a galaxy far, far, away makes convenient plot contrivance more believable. To me the difference is I watched Star Wars as a child (amongst people who already knew and told me it was classic so it was…

I think what got lost when ID4 came out, was it’s the same mythmaking present in things that do get celebrated like Star Wars. The tone’s not dissimilar. It’s somber and silly and boomy all at once. People win by an inexplicably stupid flaw of logic. It’s less good in terms of character arcs by a mile though.

Inception was fascinating. It had the misfortune of being made at a time when anti-Nolan sentiment pretty much peaked.

In a way you’re not wrong. Their silliness was pretty much a deliberate counterbalance to the Jedi’s superpowers. You really can’t make them serious or cheese free when their entire function is to singlehandedly show how badass the Jedi are.

I watched the first 20 of the cheese free Phantom Menace, and while the tone definitely tightened up it actually highlights very quickly the deficiencies in that film. I pretty much don’t care who these people are in that span which is problematic if you’re constantly showing me action because there’s no tension.

I think the problem is, even that is sort of ascribing a very specific narrative to the creation of Star Wars.