Alright, finished Star Trek TAS and The Motion Picture. It was really cool now finally getting to Big Screen stuff, and I can now feel the post-Star Wars influence creeping in.
Still going in completely blind to everything but it is interesting trying to guess what’s all gonna change with each movie. The complete overhaul of sets, costume design, cinematography, and pacing was pretty weird.
I’ve heard movies 2-6 are much faster paced in line with the series. The movie could definitely have been better if all those 20 minute flyby scenes were chopped out- and the score adjusted a bit, and Spock on Vulkan scene being cut out. All that and it’d be very well put together.
Just finished movie 4, WOW those were SO FUCKING GOOD! I was not expecting such a jump in quality. Knowing TNG is next and there won’t be any Kirk era stuff for a long long long time, this is currently an amazing sendoff for the 80+ hours of television I had to watch.
I’m aware V and VI aren’t as good apparently but I’m hoping it’ll stick the landing in being a nice way to wrap up TOS. Technically I should already be watching TNG cause of release order, but nahhhhhhhh.