![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Star Trek and Fire Emblem
Jun. 17th, 2013 05:41 pmThis article from Wired makes excellent points about Star Trek into Darkness. It's ALL spoilers, so beware, but read it even if you don't plan to see the film because the core weakness of the Trek reboot is-- surprise, surprise, surprise-- awfully close to the core weakness of recent Fire Emblem games.
[I repeat. I enjoyed the film. I wouldn't necessarily see it again, but I'll likely see the next one when it inevitably comes to theatres.]
I was making comparisons between Trek 2009 and FE12/13 even before seeing the current Trek flick, but IMO the analogy is even stronger now.
ETA: Here is a very different critique which points out that reboot Trek is missing the whole literary angle that infused previous iterations of Trek. If you don't wanna read it, I'll quote the final lines:
I also recognized Kirk and Spock, and Picard and all the other good Trek folks had read way more books than me. And guess what? I wanted to be just like them.
That is an excellent point.
[I repeat. I enjoyed the film. I wouldn't necessarily see it again, but I'll likely see the next one when it inevitably comes to theatres.]
I was making comparisons between Trek 2009 and FE12/13 even before seeing the current Trek flick, but IMO the analogy is even stronger now.
ETA: Here is a very different critique which points out that reboot Trek is missing the whole literary angle that infused previous iterations of Trek. If you don't wanna read it, I'll quote the final lines:
I also recognized Kirk and Spock, and Picard and all the other good Trek folks had read way more books than me. And guess what? I wanted to be just like them.
That is an excellent point.
