...but this current idea at Paramount of "StarFleet Acadamy" and getting new actors to play a young Kirk and Spock is just plain stupid...
one simply doesn't try to do Spock or Kirk unless one is Nimoy and Shatner - it becomes not a performance but a parody, no matter how serious one tries to be.
one simply doesn't try to do Spock or Kirk unless one is Nimoy and Shatner - it becomes not a performance but a parody, no matter how serious one tries to be.
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Date: 2006-04-21 05:19 pm (UTC)take for example pretty much every movie remake of a 70s show?
on the other hand, the new Dr. Who (the original subject, no?) is fantastic!
how many shows have tanked after adding the gratuitous cute kid to it?
quite a few...
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Date: 2006-04-21 05:21 pm (UTC)still, take TNG as a worthy successor to TOS?