Well... now that they've been given an inch, I'm sure the disgruntled Trekkies will calm down and stop complaining for good.
Seriously, this should have been drilled into him in . . . whatever they call film-making school. Unless you're doing something auto-biographical, or you're explicitly doing "your take" on Dracula or Romeo and Juliet or some other concept that's been hammered into the ground, you practice self-restraint and let the story tell itself with special effects to help, not hinder. It might be okay to have your own style, but what he did is akin to an eight-year-old sprinkling purple glitter all over all of her art and schoolwork and furniture and everything else "because it's pretty and cool." Or to baba dragging Wing Commander into every game, computer, or sci-fi thread he can find.
There were 3 seasons of stories about Kirk and company, 25 more seasons of stories set in the same basic universe, and a dozen movies about either Kirk or his successors. I can't think of another concept that's had that many stories individual stories filmed about it. Maybe The Simpsons.
Not counting TAS, there are 700 episodes of Trek, plus the various films, while The Simpsons have ~500 episodes and one film.
Lindelof and the whole Lost writer' spiel was "we've had this all planned out, it'll all make sense at the end" Repeated Ad nauseum between seasons until the viewers said put up or shut up and it was made appearant that it was all pretty much made up as they went along. It'll be the same with the Prometheus series and then I hope the people will realize that he's a one trick pony and full of lies and run him out on a rail. And that's all I have to say on Lindelof. Now, Back on topic, good on Abrams for acknowledging he fucked up, most Hollywood types egos wont let them do that. Here's hoping he Goes George Lucas on his trek movies and gives us some lens-flare free dvd releases.
I think by season 2 or 3 everyone but the biggest fanboys knew they were making it up on the fly. We even said so quite often and were flamed for not believing them. I've always kinda thought that the plan was to have them all die in the crash and make the island some form of purgatory. But then about three episodes into season 1 the fans came up with that idea and the writers went "oh shit, we gotta come up with something else".
If that's the case, why must writers go "oh crap, some fans on the net figured us out, now we must change everything and make it incoherent."
