Star Trek meta

Now with spoilers!

So, indeed, I ended up going to see Star Trek again with my mother on Mother's Day. Although she definitely was game to see it again (she'd already seen it! I love her), we were really making an excuse to take my dad. He was very adorably put out that my mother and my sister had gone without him. So we trundled off to the IMAX near their house on Sunday. As I was telling alizzy, the fact that he liked it a lot baffled me in the extreme. Not because I didn't think he should, just that I'm used to my dad and I never agreeing on movies we like. I'm so used to be defensive and being ready to fight with him about why I'm totally justified in liking a movie, that I was stuck in this abortive protest mode when he had only good things to say about it. I still kinda wanted to fight--I had prepared arguments in my head--and no one was going to fight with me. It's a very weird feeling.

Anywho, seeing the film twice solidified some things for me. After picking apart the film with moonlightalice, I had a lot to look for in a second viewing. I think the fact that we had different opinions of the same movie really helped me to focus on what I wanted to see from the film beyond just being entertained. (Which I still was.) Her review is up at Tor.com, with all of her reasonable criticisms. (Spoilers in that link!) And give darkling1's review some love, too.

One thing I looked for especially were instances of racism in the movie.

( Not surprisingly, I found plenty )

Yay, I got that meta out of my system! Now I can go read fanfics!