seriously though is no one going to talk about the fucking shitstorm carol marcus went through in stid
first she finds out that not only does her dad want to start a huge-ass intergalactic war, but he is willing to destroy anything and anyone that gets in his way to achieving it
and then he beams her over so that she is forced to watch helplessly as he goes to destroy thousands of innocent lives
and then khan brutally breaks her leg
and crushes her father’s skull in his hands
right next to her
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT CAROL MARCUS
and despite all of this she is totally proactive – she tricks her way onto the enterprise. she disarms a missile, refuses rescue when it means certain death for a man she’s literally just met, even with a broken leg she barely complains beyond the initial (and totally justified) scream, completely shuts down kirk when he doesn’t listen to her
basically what i’m saying is that everyone should be talking about carol marcus
star trek
Why couldn’t they have kept Space Sherlock as John Harrison? Here’s how simple this is: it’s an alternate timeline. In the original timeline, Khan was the one woken up. In the new Abrams timeline, Harrison was woken up. Maybe John Harrison was Khan’s First Officer, I don’t know. Not like that would go with the theme or anything. It’s assumed that all 73 of those bozos are equally as strong and evil. Then when Spock ring a ding dings up Spock Prime, Nimoy can be like “I don’t know a John Harrison but that does sound an awful lot like this dude we know named Khan…”
= BIG REVEAL. Boom.
This.
I saw someone else comment that, if Harrison had been Khan’s second in command, part of the villain’s motivation could have been to awaken Khan. Khan could have been the unseen, epic legend the villain mentions (plus whatever Spock prime wanted to say). It would still be problematic (since Khan wouldn’t be seen and thus a white character would take the place of a character of color) but at least Khan wouldn’t be whitewashed. I think that storyline could have been fascinating.
Star Trek: Into Darkness
This is going to be a rambling cross-platform review! Be prepared! And note that I am entirely ignorant of most of Star Trek and all my knowledge of the in-jokes comes from that Star Trek episode of Futurama…
Thoughts on Benedict Cumberbatch’s casting can be found here (it was a pretty big topic on Tumblr last week).
Thoughts on Carol Marcus, whom I REALLY LIKED, can be found here. So far all most people are mentioning about her is her underwear scene, and I am MAD ABOUT THAT
And onto everything else-!
-NOEL CLARKE HI NOEL CLARKE. (They missed a big opportunity not casting Freema Agyeman as his wife, I reckon. Not that the actress who was wasn’t perfectly fine but a) it would have been a great Doctor Who in-joke and b) it is a well-known fact that Freema is a massive Trek fan…)
-Uhura’s Crowning Moment Of Awesome was even more awesome to me because the other night I was watching that episode of The Big Bang Theory where they’re all like “oh haha girls don’t speak Klingon” and LOOK HERE’S ONE OF THE ICONIC FIGURES OF SCI-FI TO PROVE YOU WRONG
-Actually, everyone got a Crowning Moment Of Awesome (Sulu’s big threatening speech! Scotty’s last-minute save!), which was very much appreciated by me
-JJ Abram’s love affair with lensflare continues
-The theme of ‘how far would you go to save your family’ was done pretty well I thought- first with Thomas Harewood (Noel’s character) killing himself and many other people in order to save his daughter, then Kirk seeking revenge for his father figure, then with Khan trying to save the crew he thought of as family, then Kirk doing the same thing and actually properly dying in the process.
-Which I both liked and didn’t like, because Kirk’s death was a really good scene, and its immediate turnaround sort of…lessens the whole concept of death in the Trekverse? Because if you’ve got some guy running around who can bring people back from the dead–
-Zachary Quinto makes a really good Spock, all his scenes were wonderful. (With the possible exception of the ‘KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!’, which I found hilarious, but that’s probably because of the aforementioned Futurama episode.)
Yes it was good
Love, thine is the future!: poodlepants: I’ve been harping on this subject a lot lately, but I…:
I’ve been harping on this subject a lot lately, but I feel like somebody has to. The fact that Khan has been changed to a white man is quietly being accepted, and the performance lauded. I’ve seen people trying to say JJ did a good thing by taking color out of the equation, and…
OKAY BUT (Into Darkness spoilers ahoy) CAN WE HEAR IT FOR CAROL MARCUS
I know she was shoehorned into a pointless underwear scene
But she was really cool and collected and good at her job and she tried her hardest to save everyone (failing through absolutely no fault of her own) and she SAVED BONES’S LIFE and she SLAPPED her father round the face for what he’d done and yet she screamed when he was killed in front of her and ALL SHE WANTED WAS A FAMILY (which she got at the end)
She was basically PRETTY DAMN AWESOME I really liked her
AND ALSO (about the issue with Benedict Cumberbatch’s casting):
…IT IS VERY OBVIOUSLY WHITEWASHING and also just plain stupid? I don’t know much about Star Trek, as is painfully obvious, so I don’t know if the original Khan had anything at all in common with Cumberkhan (except for the superpowers), but…I gather there was no point whatsoever in having him be Khan other than to…to WHAT? It’s not like anything actually changed after the big reveal, other than…they started referring to him as Khan. That’s it. Just…wah.
If they ABSOLUTELY HAD TO have Cumberbatch as Khan, which apparently they did, could they not have added some throwaway reference to him changing his features, or that the other baddie whathisface changed his features in the process of super-weaponing him, or…something? Which obviously is a terrible solution to the actual problem, like putting a band-aid over a sucking wound, but…it might be a little less erasive I guess? Cos now with this movie I gather they’ve pretty much erased original!Khan altogether?