tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658662284013692766.post605748749502165229..comments2024-03-25T06:27:58.294-07:00Comments on Atomic Robot News: Does The 'Star Trek' Sequel Have To Have A 'Message'?Ken Hulseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18251290408099991105noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658662284013692766.post-85345182984289308952009-09-17T11:40:01.886-07:002009-09-17T11:40:01.886-07:00oops, I meant to type, "Every episode of TOS,...oops, I meant to type, "<i>Every episode of TOS, on the other hand ...</i>"mrGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00582052332934960204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658662284013692766.post-10628554903150035752009-09-16T19:00:14.510-07:002009-09-16T19:00:14.510-07:00Here you and I may differ: I enjoy theatre becaus...Here you and I may differ: I enjoy theatre because it is like reasoning out loud, it is like imagining your scenarious and solutions, and playing through the game of it to see if it will work. For me a good movie has a fractal nature, the overall story having that same structure as the smaller stories and the component parts of those, even in absurd situations like Godzilla vs Hedora, there are human dramas, questions posed and most important, <i>solutions</i> proposed. I like a film that slyly educates me and then spins around and makes me think about it.<br /><br />And to be historically accurate, which of the <i>Original Series</i> Star Trek movies did <i>not</i> carry a topical subplot? That was part of the joy, on one hand this utopian (meaning <i>nowhere</i>) vision where there is equality and infinite resources available freely to everyone, and on the other hand there are <i>still</i> human situations and dramas to solve. Yeah, I'm an old geezer, but to me a key flaw with <i>TNG</i> and the Treks that followed was partly them taking societal issues over the top, and partly the opposite, producting golly-gee fluff.<br /><br />Every episode of TNG, on the other hand, simple and fx primative as it was, maybe left us with more questions than answers, but still offered answers.mrGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00582052332934960204noreply@blogger.com