Yeah, the next movie better make mention of
how nobody's ever gonna die anymore.
Felicia Day posted a rant about how no girls did anything special (bwuh? okay) including ranting about how the
Special Council convened after the first attack was "all old white men"!
For the record, it wasn't. I saw the movie again last night and
that group of Starfleet's Top Men included at least five women, several people of color, and at least one non-human.
That's a case of seeing what you wanted to see, Ms. Day.
The girls did scream though. Which bugged me. And I do think we were pretty underpowered. There weren't too many roles of agency outside of the named players, but--beef up what Uhura does
and make her a tad less pouty and less proof that you shouldn't fuck your shipmate (Kirk is also similar proof, but thankfully consistently blocked)
and consider making either Robocop or Mickey female since they're new to the viewer.
And no, I don't care if
that makes women villains.
We can do that too.
Did any
of the non-white-non-male-non-humans in that scene have lines, though? Present in the background is a pretty low bar for diversity.
I was bugged that, once again, the
apparently super-competent female scientist felt the need to randomly change clothes in front of Kirk. These movies have at least as much male eye candy as female, but do we ever get to see Zachary Quinto in his underwear? Fair's fair, JJ!
Did any of the
non-white-non-male-non-humans in that scene have lines, though? Present in the background is a pretty low bar for diversity.
They did not, but in fairness, no one in that scene spoke except Kirk, Pike, and Marcus. Everyone else was background. Even Spock didn't have any lines, although he got to emote some.
In this brave new universe, Spock emotes. A lot. He's emoted more in two movies than he did in three seasons of the tv show. This is not the old Spock. I don't dislike it, exactly, but it bothers me a bit. With all his talk of getting rid of his feelings, he's pretty emotional.
I noticed the same thing Felicia Day noticed, but I also appreciated
the black helmswoman who took over for Chekov (or, wait, Sulu's at the helm, so I guess she's the navigator) and the general diversity of characters on the bridge.
I did not know that After Earth was a film by M. Night Shyamalan. Beau *hates* Will Smith, so I knew I wasn't going to see this film in the theater. The trailers made it look unappealing.
But the M. Night shit? Wow. I may not even watch this on TNT.
And Will Smith's character is named: Cypher Raige.
I wondered how something with such a patently ridiculous plot got made! Is he financing the project with his own money, or did he get incriminating pictures of a studio head?
