Science Fiction

Abrams butchered the Star Trek reboot

Butchered? That's an insane exaggeration or you're being exceedingly dramatic. How did he possibly "Butcher" Star Trek? They were well received! They were widely acclaimed, they did the source material justice in many ways and brought Star Trek - a fandom that was dying to the times, back to a mainstream audience who embraced and engaged with it.

I seriously don't get how you Sci-Fi fans have such incredibly lofty expectations. The things you want done in cinema to satisfy you simply cannot be achieved. You'd find fault no matter what was presented to you.

You have to understand that creative decisions need to be made to condense TV storylines that typically run for an entire season or volume of comics into 2 hours of screen time, including exposition, character development and world building. It won't ever be the way you want it, but shitting on people who made those things come to life just means less of it. No one wanted to touch Star Wars after the Prequels. Everyone pissed all over Hayden Christensen's acting, and now they embrace him like an old friend.

And Abrams didn't ruin the final trilogy. He was attached to The force awakens which largely followed the same pattern as A New Hope (it was extremely well received at the time), then Rian Johnson turned up for the second, squatted over the franchise and took a massive Mr Whippy all over it, leaving it in an unsalvageable mess for Abrams to polish into a reasonably attractive turd.