I think dear Bendyboo Cumberbun's weird temper was supposed to play up on how volatile Khan is/was? He tends to play characters like that (Sherlock, anyone?), so I'm thinking it was on purpose but not as well done as it could have been on the part of the writers, if nothing else.
Yeah, I wish they'd known they were going to do the bit with Klingons in the first movie so they could at least have said something like "all this shit with Nero on top of what's going down with the Klingons..." to kind of set up for it at least a teensy bit. Or, alternatively, since they did as I recall hint that Nero was kind of the turning point for trying to militarize Starfleet, mention why Romulans weren't therefore being seen as much of a threat as opposed to the Klingons. Just...not very well set up, imo. :C
Haven't been keeping up with the comics so I wasn't really expecting the Section 31 bit, but re: library's aren't important: I think Kirk/JJ's point when they said that was a library isn't really important MILITARILY. If Khan's trying to takeover/destroy Starfleet, why not a base, the Academy, etc? (I thought they set the library up as Section 31 pretty well, since when they called it a library I was wondering why it looked like they were doing non-library things in the spot Token Black Guy went. Speaking of Token Black Guy: while they did make him the bomber - which ugh, JJ, honey no - at least he was being forced into it because of his daughter rather than them playing him off as one of Khan's cronies. Although I wonder why they only revived Khan? How did they know he was the bossman? I mean I guess it was on his pod or whatever but idk. It bothers me a lot.)
I definitely agree about the formal uniforms being a really weird costume choice. They looked snazzy, but then imo the Nazis had good style, for a bunch of evil antisemitic assholes. >.> ALTHOUGH. Since we were talking about the militarization of Starfleet, maybe that was on purpose? Maybe in the next film they'll be more of a throwback to the formals worn in TOS? Like 'now that we're not going to be crazy military people we can have FUN COLORS but no less discomfort on our part because they're still formal (DAMMIT JIM).'
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Date: 2013-05-17 01:49 pm (UTC)Yeah, I wish they'd known they were going to do the bit with Klingons in the first movie so they could at least have said something like "all this shit with Nero on top of what's going down with the Klingons..." to kind of set up for it at least a teensy bit. Or, alternatively, since they did as I recall hint that Nero was kind of the turning point for trying to militarize Starfleet, mention why Romulans weren't therefore being seen as much of a threat as opposed to the Klingons. Just...not very well set up, imo. :C
Haven't been keeping up with the comics so I wasn't really expecting the Section 31 bit, but re: library's aren't important: I think Kirk/JJ's point when they said that was a library isn't really important MILITARILY. If Khan's trying to takeover/destroy Starfleet, why not a base, the Academy, etc? (I thought they set the library up as Section 31 pretty well, since when they called it a library I was wondering why it looked like they were doing non-library things in the spot Token Black Guy went. Speaking of Token Black Guy: while they did make him the bomber - which ugh, JJ, honey no - at least he was being forced into it because of his daughter rather than them playing him off as one of Khan's cronies. Although I wonder why they only revived Khan? How did they know he was the bossman? I mean I guess it was on his pod or whatever but idk. It bothers me a lot.)
I definitely agree about the formal uniforms being a really weird costume choice. They looked snazzy, but then imo the Nazis had good style, for a bunch of evil antisemitic assholes. >.> ALTHOUGH. Since we were talking about the militarization of Starfleet, maybe that was on purpose? Maybe in the next film they'll be more of a throwback to the formals worn in TOS? Like 'now that we're not going to be crazy military people we can have FUN COLORS but no less discomfort on our part because they're still formal (DAMMIT JIM).'