Totenkindly
@.~*virinaĉo*~.@
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nostalgia is failing you as you grow beyond it. Welcome to beyond the final frontier.
Yes. I need more.
I've really wanted to watch DSN for years now, but just haven't committed. Part of it is because I don't really connect well with Sisko. Some of it is Avery Brooks' delivery, I feel like i'm not getting the real person inside, and even his emotional displays feel constructed somehow to me personally. His character felt at least in Season 1 like it was just reflecting what was going on around him rather than the character, and I couldn't quite get a bead on who he was. I remember liking Odo and the Cardassian by Andrew Robinson and some of the other characters better because at least I could sense who they were and they were fairly coherent between their inside and outside. Like, I really liked the pilot from a plot/writing perspective, but Brooks' performance took me somewhat out of the episode. It's not helping to hear some of you saying his character was flip-flopping throughout.
As far as my feelings towards Kirk -- there's a bit of nostalgia there. I think he's kind of silly in some ways, but the camp is part of the fun. He is totally not my personality, but I "get" him, and I think a lot of people do -- it's all obvious enough that Chris Pine can channel him perfectly in the reboot, and I kind of like Pine's version better, he feels a little less caricature than Shatner's version. I dunno, getting back to nostalgia again.... obviously Spock was my favorite when I was young because I "got" him the easiest, but the original Trek was very much a TV show, it followed its own template with monster of the week and the character archetypes (id, ego, superego; heart, mind, and gut; etc), that is how it all played out. I thought Wrath of Khan was the greatest simply because it took all of this and forced the characters to grow a bit, especially forcing Kirk to accept his own mortality and mortality in general. It's all about aging and dealing with reality and accepting the limitations of life. It moved beyond the nostalgia of the TV show despite its callbacks and became an actual story. (Khan deals with his own mortality by denying it and embracing himself as a force of nature. He couldn't accept that the past was the past and thus fell prey to his own fixations.)