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Jan. 27th, 2006 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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saturnvii a few weeks ago, and think I know why everyone likes that captain.
It's misleading to say his hook is that he looks out for himself, that he's amoral, that he's a profiteer, or whatever. It misses the point of his character, which is this:
at key moments in the film, he does exactly the opposite of what the heroic Star Trek captains would have done.
Doing so allows/forces the writer to avoid many space opera cliches and conventions.
saturnvii a few weeks ago, and think I know why everyone likes that captain.It's misleading to say his hook is that he looks out for himself, that he's amoral, that he's a profiteer, or whatever. It misses the point of his character, which is this:
at key moments in the film, he does exactly the opposite of what the heroic Star Trek captains would have done.
Doing so allows/forces the writer to avoid many space opera cliches and conventions.
