Start Wreck: The Linkage (No spoilers outside the cuts)

May 14, 2009 23:44

I saw Star Trek and enjoyed it very much. If you like cool shit, you'll probably like this movie. Lilek's thoughts on it jibe with mine, more or less.

I had cortezopossum's summary of " they managed to screw up everything, and yet it worked" in mind as I watched, but I don't think any apologies for canon-drift are really necessary. The producers made room for ( Read more... )

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the best feminist barf-o-meter cthulhia May 15 2009, 05:35:01 UTC
Re: the best feminist barf-o-meter cnoocy May 15 2009, 10:34:18 UTC
Actually, the movie passes this, but just in a single scene. Which, as others have said, is pretty good for a TOS movie.

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Re: the best feminist barf-o-meter prog May 15 2009, 13:35:40 UTC
Racking my brain trying to remember when this was. I'm perversely hoping that it was the moments when Uhura first walked into her dorm room and chatted with her roommate, before the subject changed to the naked man under the bed.

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Re: the best feminist barf-o-meter cnoocy May 15 2009, 13:51:10 UTC
Ding! (It does put an odd spin on "passing" the test if both participants in the conversation are in their underwear.)

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Re: the best feminist barf-o-meter rikchik May 15 2009, 13:50:57 UTC
And, IIRC, the two women involved are both in their underwear.

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