Comments on: Abrams: Technology Allows A Terrifying Mess

By: captain spock

captain spock — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:09:00 +0000

Jj abrams reveal 3 frame of trek2 into darkness on the conan o brian show
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=95555

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:26:00 +0000

Poor storytelling. And a very missed opportunity to give the show a unique neo-steampunk flavor. Or perhaps a desire to present people in general or engineers in particular as stupid, narrowminded, and shortsighted.

By: Greg G

Greg G — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:01:00 +0000

One things that bothers me about this show – steam. wood still burns and water would still boil. I don’t understand how engineers would simply abandon everything because electricity couldn’t function. Don’t get me wrong – I LOVE THIS SHOW! But the steam thing bothers me… steam locomotives could still transport people & things… in ten years, why hasn’t anyone thought of this?

By: Bass Guitar Hero

Bass Guitar Hero — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:13:00 +0000

The things I took away the most from the article were “People know too much too soon” and “The more this happens, the harder it is to tell stories.” It’s fairly well known that Abrams likes to keep his various productions–including his Trek movies–under wraps for as long as possible, but this article may have given the reason.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:03:00 +0000

He clearly has a strong perception of the intended themes. Perhaps he could direct the people doing the day-to-day on the show to spend more time engaging those themes, and less time on the shoddy connective tissue between choppily-edited sword fights.

By: JWPlatt

JWPlatt — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:24:00 +0000

It’s ironic that Abrams is one of the “haves.” Where would he be without technology? Maybe that scares him and sparks his imagination. But fantasies about the scenario is really the province of the “have-nots” who wish for an equalizer like God or aliens to deliver justice. Thinking we will be saved by an outside force is the real path to armageddon. We would more likely end up doing it to ourselves in another fashion, either by exhausting our fossil fuels before we gather the will to implement clean and viable commercial technologies that do not depend on fossil fuels, or by polluting ourselves out of existence, or nuclear insanity. In any case, it’s more likely that what we do to ourselves would not equalize according to the fantasy, but destroy the viability of all human existence.