Comments on: Treknobabble #5: Spock Must Die!

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:03:38 +0000

“the most human person Kirk has ever known in all his travels in the universe. (Come to think of it, Spock would have been insulted at that statement. He was proudly Vulcan.”

You nailed it. And that’s what’s so cool about it.

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:40:18 +0000

I do want new Star Trek fans to read my column, but I do want to discuss things that have happened in past episodes or movies without having to issue a spoiler alert every time.

And if Spock does die in the new movie, then I apologize. But I don’t have any evidence, and I’m wildly speculating.

(I wonder if Henrik knows that Kirk dies in Generations.)

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:49:11 +0000

As far as I am concerned all films are on the same level once they’re out there. If anything spoilers for releases in the past 10 years should be less of a concern, because most people on a site like this will have been active moviewatchers during this period, whereas something that is 30-80 years old would have less of a chance of having been watched by the audience. But I guess when it’s a Star Trek column, things are alittle different.

But I reserve the right to complain about spoilers, now and forever. I hate people who spoil things for other people and then defend themselves with “Well, you should have seen it already”.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:44:45 +0000

Why worry about spoilers in a film that’s been out FOREVER? Jesus, spoilers should only last for about few months these days.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:41:44 +0000

LOL It’s okay to spoil “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”: you get the important plot details without having to suffer through that horrendous film.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:30:24 +0000

I think Reed brings up an interesting point about deaths of main characters in franchise movies though. How can you pull them off without pissing off fans? Either people are pissed when you find a way to bring them back, or they’re pissed because one of their favourite characters is gone. And it adds a whole lot more weight to a movie when a character you’ve grown to love actually kicks the bucket.

A good example is in Serenity.

(SPOILER)

The death of Wash seemed kind of pointless to me, and felt like a cheap thrill that Whedon threw in there just because he could. However, there were Firefly fans around me in the theatre who were audibly shocked when it happened, so I suppose there’s some value in that.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:16:13 +0000

“But that hasnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t kept the Joker from not appearing in the next Batman movie.”

Saying that his death in the first one hasn’t been the thing that kept him from not appearing in the new one may be stretching the truth a bit, I think it’s safe to assume that it did help his non-appearance chances. I’m sure it kept him out of the first one.

I almost feel like it’s a spoiler reading this entry (not to mention the plethora of TOS movie-spoilers… I don’t want to complain, but I could have lived without them. I hate spoilers).