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[i]"Since it's all fiction, who's to say, but you're taking one small historical sample, 1945 to 2018, and assuming technology always advances at that pace. There are long periods of slow development, then big leaps."[/i]
As time goes by, does technology develop as history has shown? As Trek is further in the future than present day and fiction STILL must operate under the constraints of plausibility, pray tell which of us makes more sense?
"Imagine an army from 10,000 B.C. facing an army from 5,000 B.C. 5000 years, and yet-- the difference is immeasurably less than what an army from 1518 would face against one from 2018, and that's only 1/10 the amount of time."
Had you read what you wrote, you would've noticed the trends in technological development in history.
"Presumably by the time warp speed travel and photons and all that shit has been figured out, the differences in the technology from 100 years later won't be anywhere near as drastic as would 1945 to 2018."
Why?
"More to the point-- it's science fiction. It's make-believe. It's a movie. And a damned good one, at that."
Translation: You liked it, so who cares how implausible the story was. Okay then.
"The characters had depth."
Depth? Pray elaborate.
"They were funny, and they were serious. There were powerful moments. If you didn't tear up when Kirk's dad died, well... I don't know what to say."
I didn't tear up when daddy bought it, so I guess you don't know what to say. Unfortunately, I don't tear up at scenes when people die carry zero weight and are obvious.
"And if you didn't cheer in joy and surprise when the Enterprise came out of hyperspace, guns blazing, to save Spock at the end, again, not sure what to say. For me, this movie had it all, and it's among the greatest of its genre ever made."
No I didn't cheer either, but I'll get to that part of the movie soon. That was only part 1 of the thread.
Ah yes. I do remember the Prometheus post. "Legendary" Ignorance. However, I also remember him downgrading his own score from a 10 down to a 9. It's a moment that perhaps I thought, there was a glimmer of hope to could break the Ignorance.
Hello BB-15. Long gone are those starry days on the IMDB board. I remember you. You were civil in an uncivilized land. That was impressive. However, I also recall you were stubborn and closed minded and justified irrational character decisions when common sense would deter the story from the "writers'" inflexible path.
As I told you and others, the faults that I have with a movie doesn't mean you have to dislike it as I did, but to fail to acknowledge those faults as irrational or implausible only shows Ignorance to the facts. But then again, Ignorance is Strength, correct?
"You don't like Beethoven."