See above about the science -- I think I'd have gone along with it better had it been more technobabbly.
For Uhura -- admittedly, it's harder to make a badass moment out of linguistics or a really good hearing ability. She did get the Klingon thing, as ckd mentions, and she also got field-promoted when Pike asked if her she spoke Romulan, but it isn't like beaming three people from two places onto one platform.
The problem with the destruction of Vulcan, and making it moving enough, is that the people who whom it's the most devastating are also the ones conditioned not to show any emotion. There are ways to get around that -- for example, making more human characters than just Uhura reflect the horror -- but to really make it work with Spock, they would have had to slow down and get a subtlety of performance not many guys are capable of. (Which is not to rag on Quinto -- he did quite well. But he's no Roy Marsden.)
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Date: 2009-05-13 06:05 pm (UTC)For Uhura -- admittedly, it's harder to make a badass moment out of linguistics or a really good hearing ability. She did get the Klingon thing, as
The problem with the destruction of Vulcan, and making it moving enough, is that the people who whom it's the most devastating are also the ones conditioned not to show any emotion. There are ways to get around that -- for example, making more human characters than just Uhura reflect the horror -- but to really make it work with Spock, they would have had to slow down and get a subtlety of performance not many guys are capable of. (Which is not to rag on Quinto -- he did quite well. But he's no Roy Marsden.)