Uhura 2.0 (Zoe Saldana)

[skywardprodigal]

Comments

[paradisacorbasi]

Are you still displeased? I remember you were displeased when they named her as Uhura.

[skywardprodigal]

Her smile reminds me of Nichols in beauty and brilliance. And I liked her in the clip. She's very different and she's a competent actress. I hope she does her own thing because for me, now, she's Uhura2.0.

Just, you know.

(Her face and body are so pretty and yet so wrong for Uhura, you know?)

[msloserrific]

I love her but she doesn't have that...oomph.

[skywardprodigal]

Uhura's supposed to make everybody a little bit stupid when they look at her. She's supposed to be too much, too hot to handle, remote, serene, warm, inviting, with features that you've seen so many times before but in an intriguing and flawless way.

And also, fit and curvy as 'hot damn'.

[blackmamba_esq]

I like Zoe.

This movie however...mmm...I'm a Star Trek lover and all the "It's not your father's Star Trek" stuff has me antsy.

Hope it's good.

[skywardprodigal]

I hope it's good too.

We'll see. :D

[skywardprodigal]

I just ... she's beautiful, but I hope that she has gotten over her issues with identifying with blackness enough to understand the importance of the shoes she is trying to fill with this role*.

I love how you don't call her stupid or self-hating. I love your love ethic.Okay, I had a hard time finding that one interview I put up in this post. And I was like, "Why is that? And I was all ready to be like, "So the black woman doesn't get the opportunity to interface with the media?" And then I saw the interview, and I was like, "...Oh, wow. I guess she was so busy with dancing and acting class, her talent goes mostly into performance of what type but not of another..." (Really trying to be benefit-of-the-doubty-here but that is one dull and uninteresting interview. O.o

[skywardprodigal]

Thank you EB. I try not to call it out like that.

You welcome, 'Fae, Your gentleness is humbling.

I get the term 'race woman' from somewhere else... I can't recall where though.

Saldana and uplift... I think how James Roday has been consciously putting it out there that he's Mexican... And why. :)

I always thought Nichols took her work and presence seriously but not herself seriously.

[samsom]

Last five caps...*head explodes*

Please, please, please. I never realized how much I needed it. But now that I do, God, I'm so afraid they're going to eff it up. Please, please, please....

[skywardprodigal]

*hug*

[lotus_n_my_hair]

Meh...I still think that role could've gone to a talented black actress...