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Re: Quick thoughts on a couple of your complaints. Aemon Send a noteboard - 19/05/2013 08:25:36 AM

View original postStill a cheap deus ex machina to let you kill a character without any consequences.

Yes but let's not forget the source material, here. Spock's resurrection was worse.

The tribble didn't die of radiation poisoning, so it suggests the super blood cures more than just that.

Yeah, but who knows what sort of physiology Tribbles have got going on. We don't really even know for sure that the thing was dead to begin with. Maybe it was just in a dying sort of catatonic state.

Not to mention that they had 72 other super-dudes too, and didn't actually specifically need Khan so badly.

Yes, that was a bit silly. There are definitely some plot holes that I won't argue with, I was just addressing a couple of your main points.

And even beyond any of that, I'm pretty sure the Star Trek world will conveniently forget that a good dose of superblood can save someone who has technically died of radiation poisoning.

I rationalize that by assuming that the curing agent from Khan's blood gets integrated into future medicine, and is taken into account when radiation levels are stated. When Worf warns that radiation in the ship is reaching dangerous levels, perhaps that's a level already far above what would have been fatal before Khan-medicine.

View original postAgain, I did like the movie. Just not that ending sequence. It felt like entertainment for entertainment's sake, like the movie wanted to do big things without earning them first.

Yeah that's fair enough. I can't argue that, but I can nitpick certain parts of your rationale. It seems to me like a lot of people have a hard time suspending disbelief when things don't go as they expect, even if there are reasonable (or at least plausible) alternative explanations.

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