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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x01 - "Brother"
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But , The Orville is such a unique and original production, filled with its own groundbreaking ideas, characters and settings, how can a derivative pile of iguana feces like DSC NOT ape from it?? It's almost inevitable!!
You know, if so many people didn't love jamming Orville up the rear-ends of DSC fans, the comparison discussions would probably be a lot of fun.
IF.....
This season is about the red burst.
In any other show or movie, being sneezed on by a six-foot-tall lizard alien would be cause for alarm and a potential alien infection that will wipe out the crew. Here, it's played for laughs and ignored.
The episode ends with Burnham's leg horrifically impaled on an asteroid in outer space, an injury that will no doubt take her many years of intensive physical therapy to recover from. But this is Star Trek, she's all better in a couple hours.
I love this show.
The episode ends with Burnham's leg horrifically impaled on an asteroid in outer space, an injury that will no doubt take her many years of intensive physical therapy to recover from. But this is Star Trek, she's all better in a couple hours.
I love this show.
Pike was the one tasked with finding out about the red bursts, and they have yet to do so.
He investigated the one that was still there, but they still have some information about the other six that have dissipated, and since the Enterprise will out of commission for longer than they originally thought, Pike will remain on Discovery to search for more answers to the red bursts.
LOL, what a fantasy world
Um...the Red Bursts are all the redshirts in every timeline ascending to Heaven...
This post is offensively reasonable.
I know. The question is - are the mechanics behind these red-bursts so well thought out that they will retroactively give an explanation why it swapped places with the asteroid - Or are they more of a red-matter plot-McGuffin, where the plot brushes over the logical details to go straigh to the meaty stuff.
The implication being that black Vulcans have to have the same hairstyle as white Vulcans, that is why the actor who played Tuvok had to wear a ghastly wig.....Not. Your conception is steeped in Eurocentricism and you do not even realise it. A fictional Vulcan with brown skin does not need to have the same hair texture as a fictional Vulcan with white skin. Get it now?One would think that even if They had hired a Caucasian or an Asian Woman to play the part, the Vulcan Hairstyle would still have been used.
It's obviously a very important part of the plot for the character.
She LIVES on Vulcan and is desperately attempting to "fit in" therefore, she needs to adapt to the fashion of the time and place.
The thing that needs to change now, is the perception that causality is Always the intent.
Sometimes it's just a necessary part of the story being told and nothing nefarious was ever predetermined.
Jumping to the Isle of Conclusions, has long been shown to involve a very strenuous swim back through strong currents of heartache and at times, embarrassingly misplaced rancor.
If the original Romulans were played by brown actors in the 1960's would subsequent white actors playing Romulans have to wear afro textured wigs?
Concern (translation: completely unfounded reaction based on far-too little data):
In the season preview there was still no indication of a lot of away mission action. I hope the choice of filming in Canada hasn't limited their options for budget-conscious location shooting.
In the season preview there was still no indication of a lot of away mission action. I hope the choice of filming in Canada hasn't limited their options for budget-conscious location shooting.
The production staff are imposing their real life racial cultural blindness to a fictional world
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 look. Not taking into account the 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.
It's probably more likely than not.
Spock has always been shown to be very much a loner, until joining Starfleet.
Who better for him to go to in getting assistance through his first Pon Farr (most likely in a very NON-sexual thought process), than his foster sister.
My guess is that while they were attempting to process him through it, something bordering on the carnal side occurred, which both embarrassed and scared the two of them.
So much so that they began this years long mutually agreed upon separation.
The racial blindness is real, and on this tread.
They're fictional so why does it matter?
If they were doing this to real life human cultures I would understand and be opposed.
But the Vulcans are fictional, so they could be or do anything.
No, I haven't. But I work in a job with a command structure. And no one like Tilly would make it through the tests to get into command training.
Guys, I get that you want to have this heated argument about racism in hairstyles, and the outcome probably will have ramifications across the globe, but given that the thread is set up to discuss "Brothers" and not hairstyles encountered in the season premier over a year ago...can we take it somewhere else maybe ?
Please?
It's really fucking distracting and seemingly not on topic.
I agree. This isn't the thread for this.
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