Trekkie Tingles |
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| Written by Kevin Johns |
| Tuesday, 07 April 2009 19:00 |
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Oh shit. I'm getting that tingly feeling. You know the one, where you start to get really excited, the way you used to get excited back when you were a teenager and everything was still new and wondrous. It's that magical sense that takes over your body and tells you, "Don't worry, everything is going to be alright. This is going to rock. You are going to feel the way you want to feel."
And yet... it's happening. It's really happening. I've got that tingle. Over at Aintitcool they've got all sorts of reactions coming in from the surprise screening of J.J. Abraham's Star Trek in Austin. And the reactions are marvellous. I've been watching the entire run of Star Trek: The Next Generation for the last few months, and I'm as big a Trekker at this moment as I have ever been. After a decade of despair, I desperately needed the HOPE that Star Trek is giving me. As Harry Knowles puts it in his review: "There's some powerful thoughts about the future of our people in STAR TREK. That we as a people could be those people in a hundred, two hundred, three hundred years. If we can put away childish notions of borders and differences. If we can culturally keep our differences and celebrate our commonalities. At our best, STAR TREK is our future. Not BLADE RUNNER. Not TERMINATOR. Not any other Science fiction that I've seen, but STAR TREK. It's where I HOPE we're headed." It's where I hope we are headed too, and I can't wait to see Abrams new vision of the future.
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| Last Updated on Thursday, 09 April 2009 00:59 |
I didn't get that feeling as we approached The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and despite my best intentions, I didn't get it for I Want to Believe. At this point, I've seen way too many Matrix Reloaded's and Lost season 3's to allow myself that sort of unadulterated anticipatory excitement anymore.
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