Quote:"It was just done horribly."

 

Yeah, pretty much. You can make subtle changes to the story to make it your own. You don't have to defy logic and reason by blowing up the second-most important planet in Star Trek history, or by having (for example) Kirk go from seconds away from expulsion from the Academy to first officer within a matter of in-universe hours. Never mind that there were 400+ officers on the ship including Spock, no, let's just give the job to a cadet who would have been escorted out of the building in disgrace if Nero had waited five more minutes to launch his attack. Then let's find some convoluted way for Spock to essentially sentence him to death on an ice planet, find an even more convoluted way for old Spock and Scotty to magically be there and get him back on to the Enterprise because...well...because destiny. Finally, let's have Kirk make Spock so angry that he loses control and abdicates the chair, then let's casually remind everyone that the guy was who ten seconds from being kicked out of Starfleet then jettisoned into space for mutiny was actually named first officer by the old captain before he was kidnapped. And somehow the mutiny charge didn't overrule that. And none of the 400+ officers on board seem to mind that the flagship of the fleet is now in the hands of a cadet with zero command experience. Because plot. They made Kirk from a brilliant tactician and charismatic leader into a frat boy, then handed him the keys to a spaceship.

 

But I digress. That's just one of many, many problems with the film. You should see what I have to say about Into Darkness lol. 

 

Might this be the first thread ever moved from Political back into Sideline?