Yes, I also was surprised how I like this Kirk better than Shatner's Kirk.
You're right about him proving himself, taking things as a dare (oh, I loved how Pike did that!). This Kirk is more reckless; but it makes a lot more sense for this Kirk to tend to think with his fists than the original Kirk did. And yes, this Kirk seems less smug, because he's less sure of himself underneath; I mean, he's smart, and he knows he's smart, but he hasn't been a Good Boy. I think you're probably right about the influence of his peers on his attitudes. Also, perhaps he avoided Starfleet because he didn't want to be known as "George Kirk's son" rather than someone in his own right.
Kirk has an eye for everything in a skirt, even more so than Shatner's version! For some reason, this totally fails to annoy me, possibly because Kirk is so cheerfully blantant about it.
I think it was also that he was shown as not always getting the girl, because Uhura turned him down flat. I liked that.
And the Uhura/Spock thing took me by surprise also, but I really like it, because it is obviously based on mutual respect. Fandom seems split on that relationship: some people really like it, others write fanfic which breaks them up in order for them to get Kirk/Spock slash, and a third group likes making Kirk, Spock and Uhura a threesome. Even those who like Uhura/Spock are split: I am apparently in a minority of those who think that they weren't in a relationship before the Enterprise, that they were friends, but hadn't gone any further than that (though they might have wanted to).
McCoy and Scotty are love. ♥
"You're from the future. Do they still have sandwiches there?"
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You're right about him proving himself, taking things as a dare (oh, I loved how Pike did that!). This Kirk is more reckless; but it makes a lot more sense for this Kirk to tend to think with his fists than the original Kirk did. And yes, this Kirk seems less smug, because he's less sure of himself underneath; I mean, he's smart, and he knows he's smart, but he hasn't been a Good Boy. I think you're probably right about the influence of his peers on his attitudes. Also, perhaps he avoided Starfleet because he didn't want to be known as "George Kirk's son" rather than someone in his own right.
Kirk has an eye for everything in a skirt, even more so than Shatner's version! For some reason, this totally fails to annoy me, possibly because Kirk is so cheerfully blantant about it.
I think it was also that he was shown as not always getting the girl, because Uhura turned him down flat. I liked that.
And the Uhura/Spock thing took me by surprise also, but I really like it, because it is obviously based on mutual respect.
Fandom seems split on that relationship: some people really like it, others write fanfic which breaks them up in order for them to get Kirk/Spock slash, and a third group likes making Kirk, Spock and Uhura a threesome. Even those who like Uhura/Spock are split: I am apparently in a minority of those who think that they weren't in a relationship before the Enterprise, that they were friends, but hadn't gone any further than that (though they might have wanted to).
McCoy and Scotty are love. ♥
"You're from the future. Do they still have sandwiches there?"