You know It's kinda Funny. My Nephew Brett (10 YO) finally watched all the TOS Movies. and He just didn't get It, He missed all the inside jokes, Just couldn't wrap his head around the closeness that the cast managed to carry off. We had a talk yesterday , and It turns out, that while the Ship combat was cool, the storylines just didn't capture his Imagination like Starwars did.
I can only come to the conclusion that It has to be one of those, You had to be there things. I mean, how many of us grew up Waiting for the next adventure with Kirk and Co. and then many years later, we see them on the big screen. The show in Itself allowed us to dream, To further our own Education, etc.
Maybe he's just too young to understand things, then again, He has a crush right now on Jessica Alba. well so do I but that's beside the point.
Stephen
He may just be expecting Star Trek to be like Star Wars, mostly action and special effects with a storyline to fuel it (and not much grey matter required). Star Trek, on the otherhand has always been cerebral. Expectation may be causing your 10 yr. old, Stephen, to be missing the story.
In my youth, I got into Star Trek (
as I lived in Okinawa, considering I remember nothing of my time in New Jersey) via TNG. It wasn't the characters, Gene Roddenberry's optimistic vision of the future, the messages... It was the Starships. Space Exploration and the odd combat or two, which caused me to have the now-hopeless kid dream of wanting to be an astronaught. Kids are odd that way; we love eye-candy as well as candy for our mouth and stomach. That's why Japanese TV is popular to kids nowadays (
dubbed and mutilated or not), just as they were to those who lived in Okinawa. The odd-yet-fun eye-candy and adventure. No matter how pointless two cute "monsters" fight each other as two kids bark to their respective "monsters" orders that they carry out, the eye-candy is there, from electricity light shows to water tsunamis, and
that's why kids like stuff such as that or Sentai (
Power Rangers-esque shows).
While Star Wars was cool in itself, as a kid, I never got into Star Wars as much for the space battles, but for the Lightsaber combat. I mean, I liked the energy-based blades, the different colors (long
before Episode 2, I wanted a neon purple-looking Lightsaber. And they existed in the Expanded Universe novels, which I never knew of then), the way they were performed in the Original Trilogy. Even in 1999 when the torch of the choreography--so to speak metaphorically--was past from Peter Diamond to Nick Gillard, I was more interested in the Jedi and the Sith, right down to the lightsaber action. Even now, I'd love to have one if they existed for real, aside from florescant lightbulbs and the hilt for show, or the hasbro toys or custom-made stunt sabers or hilts for show (
without sounds and florescant lightbulbs), the stunt or hasbro ones I'd settle with if I bothered to get one.
Nowadays, I have more appreciations for sci-fi I've seen before, Star Trek especially. Star Trek's philosophy, positive vision of the future, the characters, the better understanding of the adventures, etc. And with Star Wars too, although I still hold more to being a kid in that area, even though I have more of an interest in Star Trek. To summarize: The eyes of a kid is different from the eyes of an adult, no matter how much we'd like to think or wish that there's still some of a kid left in us.
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On a note, I never got into the Twilight Zone... Maybe I should try it out.)
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