astroboy
Master Member
The ice planet bit struck me as straight-up padding. It didn't seem to accomplish anything except to introduce a pointless action sequence into an already too-busy film. In retrospect, it's the JJTrek equivalent of the Rathtar sequence, which also feels completely shoehorned in because they just couldn't bear to have 5 damn minutes of people engaging with each other on a human level or providing exposition.
I think that a lot of these things are there to serve another purpose and they can't think of a better way, thus it feels shoe-horned and contrived.
Ice planet = introduce Spock, introduce scotty, change of scenery, provide moment for Kirk to break expectation and return triumphant
The more I think about the rathtars, the more it feels as if it's there because both ANH and ESB had a monster moment in the second act right after they caught their breath from the first act. (trash compactor and space slug)
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