Presuming both Stamets and Jett Reno stick around; I like the idea of splitting up the theoretical physics and the physical engineering into two separate jobs.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x01 - "Brother"
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She appears the kind of Engineer who's oh so proficient in what she does, that her previous Captain's gave her a lot of leeway with her social ineptness.
Yeah, you're right, checked it again. But still, too transformer-y...
I will never understand the desire to wish death upon a fictional character.
CBS won't release them and even if they did it would not answer that question.
Have you met Starfleet officers? They are not the picture of mental health, starting with Pike!
Only humans are allowed to change their looks. See Klingons, Romulans, Trill, and the like and the expectation that they must remain identical.
Yeah in theory it sounds great. But at an average of 45 min per episode, and a lot of ground to cover this season...I don't know that it's realistic to shoehorn it in just because we want another quirky, quick-witted character.
Like I said, I like her and found her enjoyable. I'm just thinking of the broader context of the season here.
I get it, but it seems to me that they wanted Kim Cattrall to wear her hair (wig?) the way she did because her natural hair didn't look Vulcan enough, and they wanted Jolene Blalock to cut her hair because her natural hair didn't look Vulcan enough, and they wanted SMG's hair to be straightened because her natural hair didn't look Vulcan enough.
I'm not sure how Tim Russ got away with it, seeing that almost all other actors playing Vulcan males in the 24th century had bowl cuts or were given terrible wigs to wear.
Vague as that notion is, heading into territory is one thing. The sort of "creative 180" which some have been calling for is what I fear.
I don't want them to be seemingly trying to tick off boxes of a narrow definition of Star Trek, and sacrificing quality and creative vision in the process. We went through enough of that in Berman's reign.
Nope.
Yeah, I actually noticed the hair-thing, too.
Though I definitely wouldn't go as far as calling that "racism". It really was not. This is what I would simply call "racially clumsy".
As in - this is a show made by white people. They straightened the hair because of the traditional Vulcan look. Not taking into account the race connotations - because they probably simply didn't even knew about them. And I guess, had they been aware, they wouldn't have done it this way.
IMO really nothing to "call them out" upon. But giving them a hint about this is probably reasonable.
Yikes.
I hope that's not the case.
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People sneezing on other people as a joke has been around as long as jokes have been, really. We could argue that the Orville got it from Men In Black? That's the first one that came to me.
No it wasn't, Orville didn't invent sneezing in an Elevator.
I don't even think Orville has even made that joke.
On a completely unrelated note: They never explained what happened to the red burst, or why Tig Notaro never saw it, despite being stranded there for ages? Or where the asteroid actually came from?
Wonder if they'll turn back and explain that, or if it will remain as a "Mystery box" and the plot moves on passing over that?
Wonder if they'll turn back and explain that, or if it will remain as a "Mystery box" and the plot moves on passing over that?
This kind of the whole point. Resisting conformity is a big element of the show, it's what the T'Kuvma's Klingons were all about. In fact, now that I think about it, this only strengthens the theory that their baldness was ritualistic, in a cultish sort of way.
It ain't
Men In Black
and a bunch of slapstick humor going back to Aten Hut, the inventor of the joke, who lived in Egypt, 12000 BCE
I think the "the Orville"-comparison exists because that scene was filmed as a very flat sitcom-shot, from the front, entire crew in the lense. Whereas DIS has otherwise a more natural/handheld filming style. So this scene really stood out - even on a technical aspect - and felt a lot like the other, flatly filmed SF-show with people in brightly colored uniforms doing elevator gags.
I like that. It's like...soft racism to me, unintentional but there, and relatively harmless. Racially clumsy is a good phrase. I hope the white people who made the choice had it pointed out to them and said, 'Oh, I can see how that could be racist; I probably won't do that again,' rather than, 'LOL that's not racist! I am offended by even the idea of it!'
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