![]() ![]() The spell of childhood memories faded rapidly as The Force Awakens played out on the screen, and I spent much of movie sitting with an attitude of “Really?”Īnd as I walked home from the theatre…a 40-minute walk…I just got angrier and angrier as the volume and sheer audacity of the parallels continued to sink in. An homage is NOT a beat-for-beat repetition of Ep IV, even if jumbled up a little bit and with a few scenes from Ep V and Ep VI thrown in. It is not an alt-universe but the same freaking universe 30 years later.Īn homage is the holographic chess set. But The Force Awakens is Ep VII of a saga. Now, Into Darkness was not intended to be a prequel to any of the older Star Trek movies, so I can buy into the alt-universe idea a bit. I call it bullshit, and lazy bullshit at that. A friend of mine, in discussing The Force Awakens, called it alt-universe mirroring. Some might consider this an homage to the original. Abrams simply swapped the positions of the two characters. The least tweaked moment of overlap between the two movies was the scene between Spock and Kirk across the glass as one dies from radiation sickness. And the movie didn’t disappoint in its grand opening flourishes and early Starfleet intrigue.īut then, at some point, it was like Abrams had run out of ideas and so simply inserted the last 20 pages or so of the original Wrath of Khan screenplay, hoping we wouldn’t notice. To get back to Star Trek: Into Darkness, briefly, we all knew that Abrams was rewriting the story of Kirk’s greatest nemesis Khan Noonien Singh. I sat back in awe as I saw the might of the Death Star…I mean Starkiller Base, for the first time. I cheered when R2 successfully arrived at the Rebel base…I mean BB-8 arrived at the Resistance base with the vital information. I bounced happily with the music of the Mos Eisley cantina…I mean the Takodana cantina. I worried when R2…I mean BB-8, was captured by the Jawas…I mean scrap metal scavengers. Shivers went down my spine when we scaled across the vast deserts of Tatooine…I mean Jakku. But if anyone had a sense of the epic, almost operatic scale of the Star Wars universe, it should have been Abrams.Īnd to some extent, he fulfilled his end of the bargain. I was a big fan of his reboot of Star Trek, although I had a bit of a nagging doubt after the reboot sequel Into Darkness. I-III), I looked forward to Abrams’ take on the saga. ![]() I will defend it tooth and nail.Īfter the underwhelming prequels (Ep. My first screenplay, in fact, at the ripe maturity of 13 years. And I was so impressed by the film that I immediately came home from the theatre and wrote a sequel…400 hand-written pages of a screenplay. VII).Īs background: I am old enough to have seen Star Wars: A New Hope (Ep. That statement alone should tell you everything you need to know about my experience with Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Ep. ![]()
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