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[silverfyshxin]

I'm going to start off with Star Trek because the comment that got my thoughts rolling around to kind of coalesce is this one.

John Cho on Star Trek made me happy because OMG AN ASIAN GUY IS ON TV! But his extremely awesome swordfight action scene was tempered a little by 'Fencing? What?'. Because when I think of fencing, I think of a rapier.

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I know that this isn't exactly what you talked about, but...

[aceofspades13]

On the Star Trek subject. When John Cho busted out with his kung fu skillz I was all, wait wut? I did fencing for a little bit in college, but even if I hadn't, I'd still recognize not!fencing when I see it. Although it did seem to have some fencing elements in it, aside from the kicks and the switchkatana. I think Star Trek is the one movie where I'm okay with forgiving a lot of the asian mashup. After all, Takei did say that Sulu wasn't supposed to be just Japanese, he was supposed to represent all of Asia America. Also Sulu was supposed to be American (he was born in SF), just of Asian ethnicity. So the fact that they made him a swashbuckler at heart, and not a ninja kung fu master "who talk rike dis" was incredibly bold of them. :)

[ricardienne]

Thanks for the links, esp. the trek ones.

[streussal]

I don't really have any meaningful commentary, but:

Thank you for that link to the Uhura post.

But that's colour-blindness, and colour-blindness is not a good thing, because when one is colour-blind, one cannot see.

Well-put.