But with Uhura there are all these huge expectations for her to do something monumentally important just because she's the only person around with a vagina, even though this movie is mainly about the origin of Kirk and Spock, not her.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I get what people are saying when they talk about women not playing enough of a role in the movie, I really do. It's unfair that Uhura didn't get as much screen time as I would like for her to have. But I think it's even more unfair to say that because she's in love with someone, all of the scenes that she did have are now unimportant or aren't meaningful. I mean, she is kick ass as much as she can be considering she's NOT THE FOCAL POINT OF THE MOVIE.
Also... SYLAR/ELLE is totally my newest OTP. I can't wait to read your essay. I can totally rec you some awesome non-fluffy stuff I just found, although the majority of it is pretty porny. I guess that's your choices for S/E. Fluffy or porny. lol.
I can totally rec you some awesome non-fluffy stuff I just found, although the majority of it is pretty porny. I guess that's your choices for S/E. Fluffy or porny. lol. Sweet. As long as it's well-written I'll take it. :D
I don't really like Taylor's intense blue steel face
That made me laugh because it's such a spot-on description. *lol*
I really like #3 and #4. Hiro saved a lot of episodes for me and the icon is awesome. And Sylar/Elle was the canon ship I could like though it's too bad Adam/Peter never happened.
though it's too bad Adam/Peter never happened. Haha. Damn, Adam was hot. Seeing him go down halls with Peter slicing dudes up with his sword pretty much made watching all of season 2 worthwhile.
I love that Hiro icon :) I'm about to watch the season finale of season one (I know I'm behind. I used to work on the nights it started, so I never got into it before! I kept meaning to, but only recently got the DVD's)
*raises hand to do the icon meme!*
And I agree with what you said about Uhura. Getting female characters right is really difficult. Movies tend to love either having them as entirely love interests, or ELIZABETH SWAN KING OF THE PIRATES RAR! I'd ratehr have the latter, but like you said, Uhura is not a main character. She did just as much as any other secondary character, really. Her role was just as big as Chekov or McCoy, as it should be. The movie is about Kirk and Spock.
Girl, stop. Don't make me want to write a Kirk/Uhura manifesto. Don't make me do it. Though, honestly, am I qualified if I don't actually want them to be, like, *dating*? What do I really want from this ship? What is the meaning of life? I'm kind of amazed I didn't also think to comment on Taylor Lautner when I did this meme. There's a difference between maintaining a positive outlook until I see his performance in the movie (which I'm doing) and just assuming he's going to rock our socks off because he...seems like a nice guy. What made everyone change their minds? That he's now still white but buffed up? Haha, snap. So yeah, we are pretty much agreed on unpopular fandom opinions? (*creepyness*?)
Dude, you should totally fucking write the manifesto! Before somebody else claims it. Though I have to admit it only seems fair for you to have to pick either TOS or STXI, especially since I know somebody else was given permission to do a Spock/Bones one that just applies to the new movie. (And seriously, are there many connective threads between new K/U and old K/U anyway?)
And seriously, are there many connective threads between new K/U and old K/U anyway? No, not really. The fun of it is trying to compromise both of those realities in how I imagine their companionship will eventually develop, but that's not really basis for a manifesto. It would just be fun to counter how many times people bring up these incidents of Uhura flirting with Spock in TOS with the kind of overlooked amount of times Uhura and Kirk showed a lot of admiration for each other, cause if you're going to justify AR Spock/Uhura with original Spock/Uhura, you need to acknowledge that evidence clearly shows us Uhura is definitely not going to keep shutting Jim down forever.
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I get what people are saying when they talk about women not playing enough of a role in the movie, I really do. It's unfair that Uhura didn't get as much screen time as I would like for her to have. But I think it's even more unfair to say that because she's in love with someone, all of the scenes that she did have are now unimportant or aren't meaningful. I mean, she is kick ass as much as she can be considering she's NOT THE FOCAL POINT OF THE MOVIE.
Also... SYLAR/ELLE is totally my newest OTP. I can't wait to read your essay. I can totally rec you some awesome non-fluffy stuff I just found, although the majority of it is pretty porny. I guess that's your choices for S/E. Fluffy or porny. lol.
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Sweet. As long as it's well-written I'll take it. :D
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That made me laugh because it's such a spot-on description. *lol*
I really like #3 and #4. Hiro saved a lot of episodes for me and the icon is awesome. And Sylar/Elle was the canon ship I could like though it's too bad Adam/Peter never happened.
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Haha. Damn, Adam was hot. Seeing him go down halls with Peter slicing dudes up with his sword pretty much made watching all of season 2 worthwhile.
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*raises hand to do the icon meme!*
And I agree with what you said about Uhura. Getting female characters right is really difficult. Movies tend to love either having them as entirely love interests, or ELIZABETH SWAN KING OF THE PIRATES RAR! I'd ratehr have the latter, but like you said, Uhura is not a main character. She did just as much as any other secondary character, really. Her role was just as big as Chekov or McCoy, as it should be. The movie is about Kirk and Spock.
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I'm kind of amazed I didn't also think to comment on Taylor Lautner when I did this meme. There's a difference between maintaining a positive outlook until I see his performance in the movie (which I'm doing) and just assuming he's going to rock our socks off because he...seems like a nice guy. What made everyone change their minds? That he's now still white but buffed up? Haha, snap.
So yeah, we are pretty much agreed on unpopular fandom opinions? (*creepyness*?)
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