#why does jj abrams hate me and karl urban so much.

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Yo I think I can safely say the ONLY only Star Trek I do not like (and even then it has its merits) are the AOS movies. The plots are decent, I have my issues with Kirk & Spock and how they treated Uhura, and Danvers, and Chapel (pretty much all the women basically). But I actually don’t have any other serious complaints, it’s just the things I do have complaints about make them (or mostly just Into Darkness) a little hard to watch. I know I’ve made my qualms known but

I’ve been critical meta posting about AOS lately, so here’s some stuff I do like

Everyone else’s performance (I actually like Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto as actors, I just don’t like the writing of their characters). Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin and John Cho do fantastic! I also love Zoe Saldana with my whole heart as Uhura, but I only feel like they did her and the character like, ANY respect, until Star Trek: Beyond, and that’s like, 1 out of 3 movies, hopefully the fourth will keep up the positive progress!

I LOVE the timeline divergence of Vulcan getting destroyed, and Jim’s dad dying. I just, don’t like how it was handled. Like the plot concepts in and of themselves are cool! And the characters’ personalities SHOULD be altered by those events! I just don’t like, that of all the ways they could’ve changed Jim and Spock, they chose bad boy (as in actual womanizer instead of a mischaracterization) and angry, which I don’t think is true to either of their cores in ANY universe. Giving them an argumentative/adversarial dynamic was kinda saddening and painful to me, but again, that’s just my opinion.

I would’ve LOVED Into Darkness a heckuva lot more if Benedict Cumberbatch wasn’t Khan, he was legitimately a great villain! While Kirk’s death scene is well done itself, the things that occur right before, and right after don’t sit right with me personally. Again if they didn’t try and make it WoK but still had the WoK elements in the death scene it would’ve been even better!

What the AOS movies lack in the elements of Kirk & Spock chemistry that I love in the original timeline, it made room for just, a TON of Spones and McKirk goodness (McKirk in the first, Spones in Beyond!)

I’m both glad and sad we don’t get a lot of nurse Chapel, the only reason I didn’t like her in TOS was how creepy she was toward Spock almost 24/7, if they’d have kept her and not have her sleep with Kirk (for no reason???) and just not done her creepiness with Spock I would’ve LOVED that characterization. I’m sure 90% of why AOS Bones is so stressed out is because Chapel isn’t there, he needs her, regardless of my opinions on her dynamic with Spock she has a wonderful one with Bones.

SULU IN THE CAPTAINS CHAIR SULU IN THE CAPTAINS CHAIR EVERYONE STFU SULU IS IN THE CAPTAINS CHAIR!!!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍😍

Chekov is BABEY, different flavors of babey than in TOS but still BABEY

Speaking of Beyond, I genuinely feel like that’s the one where AOS got it’s crap together! I love it!

Uhura finally has a character arc that’s totally independent from Spock (genuinely glad they broke up regardless of whether it lasts, I just want uhura to not rely on a man and the things he does being built into her characterization okay? Okay.)

Jim and Spock have FINALLY started acting like themselves, and also Spones! In a format that’s right up my alley! (As in whump & caretaker lmao)

Scotty and a badass alien chick that we never get to see undress (unlike almost every female character with a speaking role in these movies up until now) and she was great!

IDRIS ELBA (that’s it, just Idris Elba, he’s my husband even in weird scary alien makeup)

Stopping the bad guys with optimism and The Beastie Boys is so beautifully, wonderfully on brand for Star Trek! I can’t believe I’m saying this but thanks JJ Abrams!

So like, I do not like AOS for a lot of reasons, but the most recent movie gave me hope, and I actually genuinely wanna see the fourth one that’s coming out in 2023 and I just really, REALLY hope it keeps going forward in improvement instead of regressing into the things I was meh about in Star Trek (2009) and genuinely hated in Into Darkness. Fingers crossed!!

#star trek #Star Trek aos #why I like aos #but also why I don’t like it #opinion post #meta #aos meta #aos critique #personal opinion #seriously those movies were so half baked in the feminism department until the last one #thank goodness #they must’ve gotten like a whole ass female in the writers room for Beyond or something #also YAY no more angry Spock I did not like that at all but he’s so much better in Beyond #also Karl Urban is a perfect Bones and I love him so so so so so much!! #and Simon Pegg is just a delight no matter WHO he’s playing