QUOTE(ngilbert @ Nov 3 2008, 04:12 PM) 
As long as we're being random, there *is* something that has been bothering me. Hardly worth mentioning, but maybe someone can help me out (I'm looking at you supermom).
So here's my problem. I was reading about this new Star Trek movie they're making. Might be good, might suck. It's supposed to be about Kirk and Spock back when they were in the academy. So you figure they're supposed to be about 20 or 21. And they showed the new cast. Now okay, Dr. McCoy and Scotty were supposed to be older than them, maybe in their mid-forties in the original show, and Sulu and Uhura maybe a little younger, maybe late '20's/early 30's. But they cast a guy as Chekov, an adult actor I mean. So in the show you figure Kirk was maybe 35, and Chekov was maybe 22 - an Ensign right out of the Academy. So how come they didn't cast some seven year old kid to play Chekov if he's supposed to be 13 years younger than Kirk?
Wait... that's not my question.
My brother was visiting a few months ago and we started watching Star Wars together. The first one or the fourth one, depending on your generation. I always liked that movie. So the rebels decide to attack the Death Star from the opposite side of where the exhaust port is. Who knows why?
Wait... that's not my question.
And so they're going along getting picked off by TIE fighters, and then they cut to a scene inside where some lacky is telling Governor Tarkin something along the lines of "we've analyzed their attack and there is a chance they could blow us up, so should I get your escape ship ready?" - I'm paraphrasing, but the upshot is they figured out that the exhaust port is vulnerable pretty early on in the attack - they're not dumb, you know. So my brother says to me, "okay, make a note of that" and then another twenty minutes goes by and they blow up the Death Star, end of movie. So my brother says to me, "See! All they needed to do was send some guy out in a space suit to weld a big metal grate over that exhaust port, and they had 20 minutes to do it! Plenty of time! Why didn't they?"
That's not my question either. My question is this - my brother basically totally ruined Star Wars for me that night. So if we go see Star Trek together should I get back at him by mentioning that Checkov thing and ruin *that movie* for him? Or would that be wrong of me?
That's my question. It's kind of a moral quandry. What say you?
So here's my problem. I was reading about this new Star Trek movie they're making. Might be good, might suck. It's supposed to be about Kirk and Spock back when they were in the academy. So you figure they're supposed to be about 20 or 21. And they showed the new cast. Now okay, Dr. McCoy and Scotty were supposed to be older than them, maybe in their mid-forties in the original show, and Sulu and Uhura maybe a little younger, maybe late '20's/early 30's. But they cast a guy as Chekov, an adult actor I mean. So in the show you figure Kirk was maybe 35, and Chekov was maybe 22 - an Ensign right out of the Academy. So how come they didn't cast some seven year old kid to play Chekov if he's supposed to be 13 years younger than Kirk?
Wait... that's not my question.
My brother was visiting a few months ago and we started watching Star Wars together. The first one or the fourth one, depending on your generation. I always liked that movie. So the rebels decide to attack the Death Star from the opposite side of where the exhaust port is. Who knows why?
Wait... that's not my question.
And so they're going along getting picked off by TIE fighters, and then they cut to a scene inside where some lacky is telling Governor Tarkin something along the lines of "we've analyzed their attack and there is a chance they could blow us up, so should I get your escape ship ready?" - I'm paraphrasing, but the upshot is they figured out that the exhaust port is vulnerable pretty early on in the attack - they're not dumb, you know. So my brother says to me, "okay, make a note of that" and then another twenty minutes goes by and they blow up the Death Star, end of movie. So my brother says to me, "See! All they needed to do was send some guy out in a space suit to weld a big metal grate over that exhaust port, and they had 20 minutes to do it! Plenty of time! Why didn't they?"
That's not my question either. My question is this - my brother basically totally ruined Star Wars for me that night. So if we go see Star Trek together should I get back at him by mentioning that Checkov thing and ruin *that movie* for him? Or would that be wrong of me?
That's my question. It's kind of a moral quandry. What say you?
I've never seen a Star Trek or Star Wars movie.
