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Review: ‘Stan Lee’ is a perfect chance to hear from him
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Enterprise.
When long—absent bridge
officer Lt. La’an Noonien—
SinghtChristina Chong) final—
ly checks in, with a distress
call that Starfleet doesn’t
grant Spock permission to
respond to, Spock’s solution
is to inaugurate what’s since
become the time—honored tra—
dition of saying “screw you”
to Starfleet and stealing the
Enterprise.
While the subsequent story
teases serious consequences,
the action that ensues is a de—
lightful thrill ride, with each
member of Team Spock con-
tributing their own vital skills
to saving the day.
After the keenly felt loss
of Lt. Hemmer (Bruce Horak)
last season, the Enterprise
finally gains a new chief en-
gineer in Cnidr. Pelia (Carol
Kane), a mischievous and
quirky member ofa virtually
immortal alien race known
as the Lanthanites, who just
so happens to he friends with
Spock’s human mom,
Yes, anyone who’s perused
online fanlic will recognize
Pelia a Mary Sue, but she
manages to be entertaining
without overwhelming the
rest ofthe cast, which makes
her a positive addition in my
hook.
We also get a surpris—
ing shared backstory for Dr.
M’Benga {Babs ()lusanmokunl
e»
Spock (Ethan Peck) is on the spot in the captain’s chair in
“Strange New Worlds.” Courtesy photo
and nurse Christine Chapel
(Jess Bush), whose service
during the original Federa-
tion—Klingon War appears to
have crossed the line between
“front—line combat” and “full—
blown war crimes.”
But it‘s Ethan Peck
Spock who’s the MVP of this
episode. not only receiving
an origin for his Vulcan lute»
playing, thanks to some sage
counsel from M’Bonga, but
also cementing his moral con-
victions early in his career as
a Starlieet officer, even when
he’s still liguring out how
much to trust his gut.
As in the first season,
Peck eschews any attempt to
imitate Leonard Nimoy in the
role, and instead seeks to cap—
lure the underlying truth of
who Spock is, and in the prrr
cess, delivers what must sure-
ly count among Spock’s most
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boss moments in canon, mats
ter-of-factly explaining why
he hijacked the Enterprise to
senior Starfleet officers, with-
out apology, all while nursing
a hangover from having pre-
served the peace with several
rounds of Klingon Bloodwine.
’Stan Lee’
Moving onto another feel—
good tale, l should preface any
review of the documentary
“Stan Lee” by noting that the
artists Jack Kirby and Steve
llitko, who co-created the core
ofMarvel Comics with Stan
Lee as their writer and editor,
had no shortage of disputes
with Lee’s accounts over who
deserved how much credit for
land for which parts ofl those
comics’ stories and characters.
Indeed, a Google search
will turn up several recent
articles devoted to the criti—
cisms that Jack Kirby’s adult
son has voiced over this docu-
mentary, and his complaints
have plenty of merit.
But “Stan Lee” is told from
Lee’s point ofview, and while
it won’t reveal anything new
to those who ar 2 already fans
of the man and his work, it
makes marvelous use of all
sorts of archival footage of Lee
in interviews, at conventions,
on talk shows, and even cap—
tured candidly on home mov-
ies, to give us a sense ofhis
perspectivo and what drove
him.
Several anecdotes are so
familiar that the fans among
us could recite them ourselves,
such as how Lee was saving
his birth name of “Stanley
Lieber” for the critically ac—
claimed high—brow novels he
imagined himself writing one
day.
But one dimension of Lee’s
insecurity that comes to the
fore is how his father’s fre—
quent bouts ol’unemployment
when Lee was growing up,
coupled with the expensive
tastes ol‘Lee’s wife Lee
compares himself and Joanie
to Peter Parker and Mary
Jane Watson, as bookish guys
who landed gorgeous models
well out of their league —~ led
to Lee always feeling like he
needed to keep working, to
prove his worth.
A simple but effective nar~
rative tool that’s employed to
bring Lee’s tales of his youth
to life is, ironically enough,
the use of static miniature fig
ures, and surrounding diora-
mas, to depict specific scenes
and moments, from Lee being
raised on swashbuckling mov—
ie serials that made him wish
he was Errol Flynn (Lee’s sub-
sequent mustache and hair
replacement measures make
more sense in that context), to
the editorial bullpen ofMar—
vel Comics (true to life, Steve
Ditko’s art table is shown
always including a note that
read, “THINK’U.
Even within a film that’s
been dismissed as pro-Lee
propaganda, it’s revealing
to see the in—house editorial
cartoons that were published
during these guys’ peak peri-
ods ofworking together, which
showed Kirby and Ditko
grousing over Lee’s self—ag—
grandizement even back then,
not to mention the clips of
Jack Kirby’s live radio inter—
view on his 70th birthday in
1987, during which Lee called
in, and didn’t exactly cover
hiinsell’in glory. '
ll'you know nothing about
Lee, or if you do know his his-
tory, but you just miss the
sound of his voice, this is a
perlectly pleasant chance to
hear from the man himself,
but l would also absolutely
recommend taking the time
to hear out Kirby and Ditko’s
accounts as well, after you’re
done.
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