Star Trek: Into Darkness

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This is going to be a rambling cross-platform review! Be prepared! And note that I am entirely ignorant of most of Star Trek and all my knowledge of the in-jokes comes from that Star Trek episode of Futurama…

Thoughts on Benedict Cumberbatch’s casting can be found here (it was a pretty big topic on Tumblr last week).

Thoughts on Carol Marcus, whom I REALLY LIKED, can be found here. So far all most people are mentioning about her is her underwear scene, and I am MAD ABOUT THAT

And onto everything else-!

-NOEL CLARKE HI NOEL CLARKE. (They missed a big opportunity not casting Freema Agyeman as his wife, I reckon. Not that the actress who was wasn’t perfectly fine but a) it would have been a great Doctor Who in-joke and b) it is a well-known fact that Freema is a massive Trek fan…)

-Uhura’s Crowning Moment Of Awesome was even more awesome to me because the other night I was watching that episode of The Big Bang Theory where they’re all like “oh haha girls don’t speak Klingon” and LOOK HERE’S ONE OF THE ICONIC FIGURES OF SCI-FI TO PROVE YOU WRONG

-Actually, everyone got a Crowning Moment Of Awesome (Sulu’s big threatening speech! Scotty’s last-minute save!), which was very much appreciated by me

-JJ Abram’s love affair with lensflare continues

-The theme of ‘how far would you go to save your family’ was done pretty well I thought- first with Thomas Harewood (Noel’s character) killing himself and many other people in order to save his daughter, then Kirk seeking revenge for his father figure, then with Khan trying to save the crew he thought of as family, then Kirk doing the same thing and actually properly dying in the process.

-Which I both liked and didn’t like, because Kirk’s death was a really good scene, and its immediate turnaround sort of…lessens the whole concept of death in the Trekverse? Because if you’ve got some guy running around who can bring people back from the dead–

-Zachary Quinto makes a really good Spock, all his scenes were wonderful. (With the possible exception of the ‘KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!’, which I found hilarious, but that’s probably because of the aforementioned Futurama episode.)

Yes it was good