It's kind of like saying to a patriot we're changing the American flag to a hammer and sickle. Suck it up.
This remake doesn't even make sense. Even if the time line has been changed, when Kirk's father dies, the previous point of time did not. Before the Romulans had come through the Black Hole, the time line had not changed and there would be no reason why Khan would be any different than what the original series had made him to be.
If JJ had any brains, he would have picked up one of the other episodes and made a film instead of taking an already highly successful movie and re-making it.
No it’s not. It’s pointing out that they hold the show in too high a reverence. The fans really are a big part of why Trek canon because an unwieldy mess, they’re the ones that started keeping track of which button Sulu pushed. TOS had no real canon to speak of, major parts of Trek (including this whole “Federation” thing) were popped in after the show was running. It’s obsessive fans that analyzed every frame and tried to turn a show that really had no cross episode continuity into a cohesive structure. Then Rodenberry went and encouraged them by trying to solidify the canon in TNG and thus the albatross was born.
Back in the day “reboots” were common. Except nobody called them reboots, everybody just understood that the new Flash Gordon series/ serial/ comic wasn’t going to try to pick up the continuity of any of the ones that came before. Everything was stand alone, even when it had familiar names.
Who says Khan’s any different? He’s in different CIRCUMSTANCES but we don’t know if the character changed.
I agree he shouldn’t have picked up Khan. ESPECIALLY not for the second movie. I understand the temptation, Khan’s one of the best characters in the history of Trek. But this puts him on a bad path of mirroring the first movies, should have picked up somebody else.