I just don’t expect white hollywood to write us well, i prefer they didn’t try
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Never said I did. Just saying that I'm sufficiently disliked by my peers that if I wanted someone to clobber me, I expect that I would have multiple volunteers.
Well welcome to the club, Oddish. I’m Sainte. happy to make your acquaintance
I live in Kettering, but others think I live in West Virginia.
Being 100% honest some of what's in Inside Star Trek: The True Story smacks of sour grapes. It's pretty evident that Roddenberry and Herb Solow had a falling out, and I would recommend taking some of Solow's more uncharitable statements re the Bird with a grain of salt.
Okay. I'll bite. And this is something I know more than a few fans would roast me for: post-genetic modification revelation Julian Bashir is worse and less interesting than pre-"Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" Julian. As annoying as Season 1 through 4 Bashir could be at least you knew it came from the heart of the character and he wasn't putting on any pretenses.
Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian.
Semitic peoples, including ethnic Jews, are typically classified as Caucasian. In many cases it would be virtually impossible to distinguish an ethnic Jew from his European brethren at first glance.
There are many cases of Hollywood getting it wrong on race. These two examples are not it.
As for James Bond, Bond is British, not English. Fleming wrote that Bond’s father was Scottish, his mother Swiss.
She's a one off character, we nothing about beyond a name
Was Zahra the Indian/South Asian one from "That Which Survives(TOS)"?
Also, English James Bond played by Australian George Lazenby.
Operation Annihilate!
Oh, gotcha.
Yeah, the racial status of that character is not determined nor is it important. Using a slur to refer to her doesn't clear up the question.
Yeah, the racial status of that character is not determined nor is it important. Using a slur to refer to her doesn't clear up the question.
And also by Irishman Pierce Brosnan, Welsh-born Timothy Dalton, and American Barry Nelson (if you count the 1954 live TV adaptation of Casino Royale).
And was almost played by American John Gavin!
Has Bond ever been referred to as English in the books?
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As a linguistics professor, I find this oft-repeated criticism of Costner’s accent to be fairly amusing. Costner’s accent was far closer to what Englishmen of that time period sounded like than any of his modern British co-stars.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english
Essentially, right around the time of the Industrial Revolution, the British gradually began to shift from their original rhotic accent to the non-rhotic accents they currently sport.
American colonials, far from the motherland, never followed suit, with the exception of some port cities like Boston.
It’s always been chic to knock Costner’s accent in Robin Hood, but as I stated before, his accent was far more authentic to the time than Cary Elwes’s was.
No. As I mentioned earlier, Ian Fleming (the creator of Bond) wrote that 007 was the product of a Scottish father and Swiss mother.
Bond is British, not English. While all the English are Brits, not all Brits are English.
Yes, but IIRC the Scots thing happened after Connery became Bond on film.
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