User blog comment:TheToughGuy/My Question To You All: No. 21/@comment-4675595-20130515231846

The only movie franchise I really follow is Star Trek, which I have mixed feelings about. On one hand, it's great that the series is continuing and there are new fans being introduced to it, and the cast is excellent, but JJ Abrams has no idea what he's doing. He's turned it into a flat-out action thriller and doesn't seem to understand Captain Kirk's character at all (though, he's younger in this series, so maybe he'll get better in future films?). He even admitted in an interview on the Daily Show that he was never a fan of Star Trek growing up because he found it "too philosophical," which explains a lot about why he's missed the mark on so many elements of the original series. So it's great that there are new films out, and they could have been a lot worse, but it's a bit disappointing that they're just sci-fi action films when there's potential for so much more.