@deanduncan63Saw #IntoDarkness. Liked it. The mythos expands. Laughs, some boffo & boom, a few big ideas, & a deus ex tribble to boot. Good popcorn, I say.
#IntoDarkness made me wonder a bit. Is this a new movie, or just a remix of Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan? …
… And could the Montalban/Cumberbatch character just possibly represent the Taliban?
#IntoDarkness, or poli-sci 101. The anthropological decorum of the prime directive morphs into benevolent interventionism …
… which always stumbles, & properly miffs then mobilizes the political realists, whose self interest, compounded, eventually radicalizes extremists …
… both home & abroad, whose violence lead eventually to the dire retrenchments of, say, Homeland Security. In the face of this …
… the parable can only turn itself back into a reassuring franchise, whose pals-y iterations can continue to distract & comfort us …
… as the End continues to come, nearer & nearer. Now where’d I park that car?