Science Fiction

I simply don't like his tired approach to story-telling. His modus operandi (as I have observed over several films and television) appears to be "Let's kill as many people as possible in the most imaginative ways possible and/or acceptable to audiences in general, yet don't let anyone feel much, if anything, for those deaths and losses."

Now, you know me; I don't care what's in the Bible as to how many people are killed in it, and I don't know why you used that as an example at all. I simply do not like over-the-top death, especially in massive body-counts. The first Star Wars did blow up a planet, yet it was treated almost like a non-event, with regards to most of the characters' feelings. Plus, I was a different, far less mature, person when I saw that, and do react differently to it now. Vulcan gets obliterated in the remake of Star Trek, yet only Spock seems to have any grief. San Francisco is damn near obliterated in the second movie, and the deaths are almost throwaway there, too.

Some stories, and movie portrayals of character and "collateral" death, appear to understand how to show such fictional people grieving for the losses, no matter how many or few. Yet I haven't seen much of that in anything Abrams has done. It's also why I find his characters either flat or unlikable, even the villains (a "likable" villain, as an example, is Bester from Babylon 5, mostly because he's a complex individual.)

So, I'm not looking forward to it at all. I don't hold out much hope for it being a good film, due to Abrams being at the helm.