okayophelia:#(okay why can’t this be #the plot of every remake tho #there have been about a thousand
okayophelia:#(okay why can’t this be #the plot of every remake tho #there have been about a thousand remakes of every old 1960s thing lately #i need remakes that interact thematically with their source canon #not just as a way to critically examine those themes #tho obvs we need more of that— christ please give me a superman that asks why we needed superman in the first place #but as a way to examine the weight of those stories #that don’t just tell a story with jim kirk in it #but that constantly have Captain Kirk in them as a sort of ghost of a narrative #a doctor who 50th anniversary that isn’t just exciting! and flashy! and cool! #but that acknowledges the incredible weight of 50 years of one continual story #like matryoshka dolls; each character and plotline and setting contains more than it appears to #even if tos!jim kirk was not perfect he must remain perfect in the nostalgic memory of the viewer #the idea of jim kirk in our minds was never the jim kirk that existed #but it is so impossibly fascinating to watch aos!jim kirk try to live up to that ideal #that it seems a shame for that ideal not to be constantly present within the story’s subconscious)(swanjolras) -- source link