{"id":3932,"date":"2013-05-20T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2013-05-20T20:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T01:29:09","slug":"critic-at-large-star-trek-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3932","title":{"rendered":"Critic At Large: Star Trek Into Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1408101\/?ref_=hm_cht_t1\"><em>Star Trek Into Darkness<\/em><\/a> isn&#8217;t shy about appropriating material from classic Trek lore. To say much more would require spoilers, but some fans may find this latest re-imagining too derivative of the earlier and perhaps better version. I can see their point, but I&#8217;m also a sucker for new spins on old stories. And J.J. Abrams brings some interesting twists that improve upon the original formula. For example, a certain alien species looks way more badass. Benedict Cumberbatch (I still say he&#8217;s a refugee from a parallel Dickensian universe) is also one of the more memorable Trek villains to antagonize Kirk in a while.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m still trying to understand why &#8220;Lens Flare&#8221; isn&#8217;t listed in the cast credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek Into Darkness isn&#8217;t shy about appropriating material from classic Trek lore. To say much more would require spoilers, but some fans may find this latest re-imagining too derivative of the earlier and perhaps better version. I can see their point, but I&#8217;m also a sucker for new spins on old stories. And J.J. <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3932' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-23-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-11q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}