Chris Pine is incredibly talented, and he acted the shit out of this movie.
I think they did it because it would be a hit while being a nod to the original series, and fandom, as much as we like to think otherwise, is not where the money comes from.
There was a class at my (weird tiny all-girls boarding Episcopalian) high school called Isms. Probably in most places it would've been called a Civics class, or something, but it was about ways of governing, about philosophical group patterns & dynamics. I would definitely, definitely say Kirk/Spock qualifies. And it's an ism of which I'm completely outside, so it's more obvious to me. And if K/S shippers are saying it felt shoehorned/overdone/etc? Imagine how the rest of us feel.
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Date: 2013-06-07 03:28 pm (UTC)I think they did it because it would be a hit while being a nod to the original series, and fandom, as much as we like to think otherwise, is not where the money comes from.
There was a class at my (weird tiny all-girls boarding Episcopalian) high school called Isms. Probably in most places it would've been called a Civics class, or something, but it was about ways of governing, about philosophical group patterns & dynamics. I would definitely, definitely say Kirk/Spock qualifies. And it's an ism of which I'm completely outside, so it's more obvious to me. And if K/S shippers are saying it felt shoehorned/overdone/etc? Imagine how the rest of us feel.