Star Trek
I went to see the new Star Trek film despite not being a Trekkie - it was on the basis that it “actually looked quite good”. And it was. It was very good.
Even though I’ve never actually watched any episodes properly, I noticed many of the standard Trek tropes - the guy in red was the one who was killed, and so on. And you could tell whenever there was some sort of call-back as the character would turn towards the camera and say loudly whatever their catchphrase presumably is.
I also enjoyed how a lot of it was just “bureaucracy in space” - a lot of it was just them rattling off Star Fleet commands at each other, but inexplicably, this was actually compelling to watch. Probably because I used to work at the tax office.
It was nice to see that the guy who played Spock has a big range: he can play the emotionless Sylar in Heroes AND the emotionless Spock.
I would genuinely go and see it again.
