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May. 1st, 2012 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolI do mean really stonking Star Trek spoilers, mind you. You'll probably have already read them by the time you get here, but if you didn't:
Apparently Benedict Cumberbatch is going to be playing Khan in the next Star Trek film. I am deeply, deeply unhappy about this. If they're going to do Space Seed again then I accept this, because as far as I'm concerned these films should absolutely NOT tread where the Star Trek films went, and instead stick with the series, when the crew came together and banded etc etc.
Here are the reasons why you should not re-make Wrath of Khan for the next thirty years if using the current cast of the Star Trek re-boots:
1. RICARDO MONTALBAHN. Okay, that also takes out the Space Seed argument, but he was a magnificant silver fox of an actor. His real chest! Trufax! Also, he made Khan seem real, and conflicted, and with the weight of the past on him whilst also being physically very menancning. Benedict Cumberbatch is a wonderful, wonderful actor and has an astonishing range, but to be quite honest he's just not old enough. This makes me sound like That Kind of fan, the ones that complain about every new incarnation of the Doctor, but my point remains valid on this occasion. I can just about deal, as I said, if they're taking the story as a younger Khan. That's fine.
2. The reason that Wrath of Khan is so bloody good is because these characters all have history. You don't have to have seen the original episode to see that - it breathes out of them in the direction and the script. You can't do that with a younger cast with no history as interacting as characters.
3. OH THAT SPACE BATTLE.
Look, this might just be me. I love new CGI and stuff, and what they can do with computers these days, and I don't miss the old wobbly sets. The space battle in Wrath of Khan, though, cannot be touched by anything on celluloid ever ever ever. It's tense, beautiful, and one of the best sequences in Star Trek history. Yes, I said it. Now, this is the part of my that's my father's daughter because I am basically just parrotting his opinion there, but one of the only other things to come close is in Serenity with the Reavers - tense, scary, and in a big cloud.
Do not, in conclusion, fuck with that space battle. You'll only embarrass yourself.
3a. Nothing will ever be as scary as those ear worm bug things. I appreciate, however, that this may just be from some mild childhood trauma. Ugh, still can't watch it.
4. You can't kill Spock. You just can't, not this early on in the day. See point 2.
5. I will cry like a little girl if they go to San Francisco to look for humpbacked whales.
6. Didn't the Eugenics War happen in 1990, canonically? We're running out of centuries for everything to fit in comfortably. While I can take the 'alternate universe' argument very comfortably for canon changing after Nero, it simply doesn't work earlier. NO ARCHER, THE TEMPORAL WAR DOESN'T BLOODY COUNT. Would it not be easier to sort of handwave it a bit?
So, in conclusion: I really, really hope Benedict Cumberbatch isn't playing Khan and that this is all cruel rumour and conjecture, and that if he has to play Khan then they don't remake Wrath of Khan.
I still have my fingers crossed he's playing Gary Mitchell, but that's just me, apparently.
Today I went to work in a pencil skirt and heels, something I shall hopefully never have to do again, or at least not do again until I've worked out how to get in an out of cars. I looked magnificant, mind you, but I have no idea how women wear them on a daily basis. (I normally trudge to work in more practical workwear. Meeting with a buyer. Not meant to be my job but lost rock-paper-scissors. Long story.) I'm quite relieved to be back into some comfy jeans and ranting about Star Trek on the internet, massively back into the comfort zone.
Apparently Benedict Cumberbatch is going to be playing Khan in the next Star Trek film. I am deeply, deeply unhappy about this. If they're going to do Space Seed again then I accept this, because as far as I'm concerned these films should absolutely NOT tread where the Star Trek films went, and instead stick with the series, when the crew came together and banded etc etc.
Here are the reasons why you should not re-make Wrath of Khan for the next thirty years if using the current cast of the Star Trek re-boots:
1. RICARDO MONTALBAHN. Okay, that also takes out the Space Seed argument, but he was a magnificant silver fox of an actor. His real chest! Trufax! Also, he made Khan seem real, and conflicted, and with the weight of the past on him whilst also being physically very menancning. Benedict Cumberbatch is a wonderful, wonderful actor and has an astonishing range, but to be quite honest he's just not old enough. This makes me sound like That Kind of fan, the ones that complain about every new incarnation of the Doctor, but my point remains valid on this occasion. I can just about deal, as I said, if they're taking the story as a younger Khan. That's fine.
2. The reason that Wrath of Khan is so bloody good is because these characters all have history. You don't have to have seen the original episode to see that - it breathes out of them in the direction and the script. You can't do that with a younger cast with no history as interacting as characters.
3. OH THAT SPACE BATTLE.
Look, this might just be me. I love new CGI and stuff, and what they can do with computers these days, and I don't miss the old wobbly sets. The space battle in Wrath of Khan, though, cannot be touched by anything on celluloid ever ever ever. It's tense, beautiful, and one of the best sequences in Star Trek history. Yes, I said it. Now, this is the part of my that's my father's daughter because I am basically just parrotting his opinion there, but one of the only other things to come close is in Serenity with the Reavers - tense, scary, and in a big cloud.
Do not, in conclusion, fuck with that space battle. You'll only embarrass yourself.
3a. Nothing will ever be as scary as those ear worm bug things. I appreciate, however, that this may just be from some mild childhood trauma. Ugh, still can't watch it.
4. You can't kill Spock. You just can't, not this early on in the day. See point 2.
5. I will cry like a little girl if they go to San Francisco to look for humpbacked whales.
6. Didn't the Eugenics War happen in 1990, canonically? We're running out of centuries for everything to fit in comfortably. While I can take the 'alternate universe' argument very comfortably for canon changing after Nero, it simply doesn't work earlier. NO ARCHER, THE TEMPORAL WAR DOESN'T BLOODY COUNT. Would it not be easier to sort of handwave it a bit?
So, in conclusion: I really, really hope Benedict Cumberbatch isn't playing Khan and that this is all cruel rumour and conjecture, and that if he has to play Khan then they don't remake Wrath of Khan.
I still have my fingers crossed he's playing Gary Mitchell, but that's just me, apparently.
Today I went to work in a pencil skirt and heels, something I shall hopefully never have to do again, or at least not do again until I've worked out how to get in an out of cars. I looked magnificant, mind you, but I have no idea how women wear them on a daily basis. (I normally trudge to work in more practical workwear. Meeting with a buyer. Not meant to be my job but lost rock-paper-scissors. Long story.) I'm quite relieved to be back into some comfy jeans and ranting about Star Trek on the internet, massively back into the comfort zone.
