It's pretty mild and friendly here now, compared to the wild & woolly days of 2008, 2009, and the first half of 2010. Also a lot quieter, though part of that's down to the retirement of some of the uncontrollably angry people.
They were so very very angry, bordering on righteous indignation.
Was very funny and entertaining to read at the time though, thank god they finally accepted reality.
Only took them 2 years.
P.S Just trying to catch up on this thread.
Not sure its all peace and calm. Just got though reading something I
never thought I would see in writing, over on the Orci thread. But that's best left where it is and nothing further said here.
I haven't been here very long, only since just before STID came out on blu-ray. I stay for the enlightened opinion, some cool ideas, the occasional picture,....
...and occasionally to eat popcorn while the fur flies
A lot more than just fur was flying when the first new Star Trek film was released, entrails, peoples ears and house bricks among others things.
Some individuals
really didn't like the new film at all, the really epic thread was the argument over the size of the new enterprise, it lasted well over two years and in the end those who could not accept that the Enterprise was much bigger than the TOS version just spontaneously combusted and were never heard from again.
Was very funny indeed.
It got very technical and many of the more senior members of the forum tried to explain it to them and even provided diagrams and screenshots by the hundred but it just didn't work, just ask King Daniel who provided many of them and Msharak who tried to keep things civil as best he could.
I personally would have been fine if the Enterprise had stayed the same size as the original but was very happy to see it become larger, which provided for larger sets and internal environments instead of the small and relatively poky rooms in the TOS version, yes I did use the term poky in the size thread when describing the TOS Enterprise and no the response was not pleasant to say the least.
When STID was released the whole size issue started up again as the Vengeance was twice the size of the already big new Enterprise, as I am sure you can appreciate certain individuals took it very badly.
It was a gigantic steaming pile of denial which if you had been here would have taken your breath away, it certainly did mine when I first joined.
I love that the new films are a fresh start and that means anything can happen with no limitations to the writers, which was the whole point for the reset.
All the new cast have worked out really well, I also have absolutely no problem with seeing Alice Eve in any state of dress/undress and have no doubt they will make good use of her character in the third film.
They way they have done the first two films means they can now go in any direction they want for the third film adversary wise, Borg, Cardassian, Romulan, Klingon or even Ferengi.
Or even a mixture of the above as the Klingons and Starfleet are vulnerable after their losses in the first new film.
Looking forward to it without reservation.
