>> Especially with Jim encouraging and exacerbating that feral edge <<
Yeah, these two guys are going to heterodyne more than they buffer, so it's a very different dynamic than TOS. Poor Bones, he's the only brakes they've got between the three of them, and he's on rebound from a much-fresher broken relationship.
Yeah, that can't possibly go wrong.
>>It's something very easy to miss unless you know a fair bit about Vulcans in canon.<<
I knew about it, just didn't put the pieces together.
>>I have this feeling that Spock knew exactly what was coming, and dressed/acted accordingly. That he was, possibly, trolling them just a little. Not that they didn't deserve it.<<
That was actually something I saw as deeply in-character, because TOS Spock had such a wonderfully subtle way of trolling the hell out of people.
>>Also, I kind of squeed when he told them to 'live long and prosper' in a tone that was the clearest 'fuck you and the horse you rode in on' that a Vulcan has EVER had. EVER. That right there was when I fell in love with Quinto's version of Spock, because *damn*, but it takes some balls to do that!<<
Well, that's the point: he wants them to be around to see him win, to see the epic brain walk off and hand all the benefits to the humans because the Vulcans were being too illogical to associate with.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2013-05-08 09:42 pm (UTC)Yeah, these two guys are going to heterodyne more than they buffer, so it's a very different dynamic than TOS. Poor Bones, he's the only brakes they've got between the three of them, and he's on rebound from a much-fresher broken relationship.
Yeah, that can't possibly go wrong.
>>It's something very easy to miss unless you know a fair bit about Vulcans in canon.<<
I knew about it, just didn't put the pieces together.
>>I have this feeling that Spock knew exactly what was coming, and dressed/acted accordingly. That he was, possibly, trolling them just a little. Not that they didn't deserve it.<<
That was actually something I saw as deeply in-character, because TOS Spock had such a wonderfully subtle way of trolling the hell out of people.
>>Also, I kind of squeed when he told them to 'live long and prosper' in a tone that was the clearest 'fuck you and the horse you rode in on' that a Vulcan has EVER had. EVER. That right there was when I fell in love with Quinto's version of Spock, because *damn*, but it takes some balls to do that!<<
Well, that's the point: he wants them to be around to see him win, to see the epic brain walk off and hand all the benefits to the humans because the Vulcans were being too illogical to associate with.
ZOT! ZING! Game to Spock.