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Many other users have already explored most of the film's problems and plot holes / issues, but what I wanted to comment on are two things, the overall theme at the end and the general emptiness I felt after the film was over.
The emptiness had nothing to do with Data's heroism, but everything to do with the whole Next Gen universe coming to an end. Captain Picard was the quintessential TV father / uncle / grandfather figure to so many of us Millennials out there and now that he's gone I really feel quite a bit empty inside. I mean when the TV series ended you knew that was it, but you still knew you'd see him and the crew again in movies for some time, but now even that time has come to an end.
I say it could have been a better interpretation of the main idea of ST:III because the way this one ends we remember that Data uploaded all his memories to B4, and so just like Spock uploads his "memories" to Bones at the end of ST:II, it would have been sort of nice at the end for B4 to have begun just a little bit to remember, emphasizing the whole Death / Rebirth theme, sort of like how viewers have stayed with the crew since the beginning and now have to become our own persons at the end of the journey, but we still have all those memories.
Not a bad film at all, but in general many of the TV episodes had much more to say in much less an amount of time.
A little more push on some central archetypal thematic elements and more of a reflection or reincarnation of the ST:III theme might have helped the film close the universe a bit better and leave me still sad but less empty. What are we going to do now, Captain?
Many other users have already explored most of the film's problems and plot holes / issues, but what I wanted to comment on are two things, the overall theme at the end and the general emptiness I felt after the film was over.
The emptiness had nothing to do with Data's heroism, but everything to do with the whole Next Gen universe coming to an end. Captain Picard was the quintessential TV father / uncle / grandfather figure to so many of us Millennials out there and now that he's gone I really feel quite a bit empty inside. I mean when the TV series ended you knew that was it, but you still knew you'd see him and the crew again in movies for some time, but now even that time has come to an end.
I say it could have been a better interpretation of the main idea of ST:III because the way this one ends we remember that Data uploaded all his memories to B4, and so just like Spock uploads his "memories" to Bones at the end of ST:II, it would have been sort of nice at the end for B4 to have begun just a little bit to remember, emphasizing the whole Death / Rebirth theme, sort of like how viewers have stayed with the crew since the beginning and now have to become our own persons at the end of the journey, but we still have all those memories.
Not a bad film at all, but in general many of the TV episodes had much more to say in much less an amount of time.
A little more push on some central archetypal thematic elements and more of a reflection or reincarnation of the ST:III theme might have helped the film close the universe a bit better and leave me still sad but less empty. What are we going to do now, Captain?