Well with all
the bantering happening with all the changes Disney has made (and is still
making) with various Star Wars projects, most of them being cancelled
incidentally, many are questioning what Disney’s angle with all of these
various takeovers that are happening, first with Marvel, and now more recently
with Lucusfilm (there’s already an article about this, so please check
there first. I might do a "part two" of that topic later on). But back to the
topic at hand - JJ Abrams sequel to the re-launch of the Star Trek series, “Star
Trek: Into the Darkness.”
I must say this was a very well made film. It was
entertaining, surprising, a lot of inside and more obvious jokes, and plenty of
action with good CGI that wasn’t over the top. Much like its predecessor, this
film kept with the alternate timeline created in the first film. However while
doing so, they re-told one of the classic tales from the original Star Trek
series in its own unique way.
As a long time fan of all of the Star Trek
franchises, I’m glad they kept to the originality of the series, while at the
same time developed new and unheard of sequences that was never in the original
series. But again, this is a different timeline from the original; therefore
you can experiment with many different aspects of the story without it looking
like a re-hashed variation of the original, which is why I love this concept of
an alternative past. By the way that too is also a staple of Star Trek, the
space/time continuum theory, which works well with this series.
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