Absolutely, I jested only in part, white washing is far from a new phenomenon. After all, what colour was Jesus?
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Absolutely, I jested only in part, white washing is far from a new phenomenon. After all, what colour was Jesus?
White and Black and Brown and who knows what else since he is most likely a fictional character.
Jason
Sighs....ok, what colour would Jesus be on the balance of probability should we make the assumption he did in fact exist as portrayed?
Better?
Sighs....ok, what colour would Jesus be on the balance of probability should we make the assumption he did in fact exist as portrayed?
Better?
White of course since he was born here in America until the Indians killed him. The Mormons have it figured out.
Jason
One of the aspects is also levels...for people in living memory, seeing a person of colour (to use the Americanism) was a remarkable event, even in London. East London no less. Finsbury Park May have had a black MP in the late nineteenth century, but it’s still so stanoutish as to appear strange and alien to children of the thirties, seeing a dark-skinned person. That has a hard time sitting next to current media portrayals, which leads to discussion, as well as the more...bizarre political things. (If no one caught the news story about the BNP puppet show involving a lion telling the story of Boudicea -yes I know, Boudicca, but not this time - then you missed a true through the looking glass moment to laugh at.)
There’s always a narrative or two, sadly not the fun kind.
Popular Mechanics did the below rendering, based upon what documentation is known.
That looks about right though it does hurt a little that the pic make him look like he just got his photo taken for his driver's license and got stuck with a bad photo face. Looks like he looking somewhere other than the camera, forgets to smile. All the classic bad photo mistakes. Plus he isn't classic sexy. I think people expect Jesus to be kind of sexy. Not actually a Hercules or anything but not someone who looks like your average Trek fan as well.
Jason
Popular Mechanics did the below rendering, based upon what documentation is known.
Striking, wouldn't you say?
Not actually a Hercules or anything but not someone who looks like your average Trek fan as well.
Jason
Dude, speak for yourself, Trek is chock full of sexy fans!
I think there's a real danger we're derailing this to be honest.
Sometimes you got to let go of expectations.That looks about right though it does hurt a little that the pic make him look like he just got his photo taken for his driver's license and got stuck with a bad photo face. Looks like he looking somewhere other than the camera, forgets to smile. All the classic bad photo mistakes. Plus he isn't classic sexy. I think people expect Jesus to be kind of sexy. Not actually a Hercules or anything but not someone who looks like your average Trek fan as well.
Jason
I would not say, no.
Striking, wouldn't you say?
That's true unless the show is going to run with the idea of following up on one of those early "TOS;The Motion Picture" idea's of seeing Jesus who is basically a broken down clone who Kirk ends up fighting in hand to hand combat. I guess if you replace Burnham with Kirk you get the same idea and the show did say this season is going to be about faith vs science. Maybe they meant that being depicted as a kick-ass fight!
Jason
I've a sinking feeling this is going to be one of those times when the internet sends intended sarcasm awry.....
TOS showed a 99% human crew where most of the bridge crew at least dealt with their prejudices until a situation occured, e.g IMO McCoy is border line speciest, Lt. Styles (?) showed his true self when the Romulans were discovered, and was very rude and disrepectful to Spock. Prejudices and biases still exist in Star Trek future, its redirected to other species.
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Popular Mechanics did the below rendering, based upon what documentation is known.
Is it me, or does every recreation of ancient people (usually based on sticking clay on a skull...though not here obviously) end up with a relatively big nose and crossed eyes? I mean seriously...if you gave them a 3D print of a living skull, or vague markers, of a living person, you would still end up with a variation on captain big nose here. I am starting to wonder if humans simply didn’t have much feature variation until someone discovered sculpture and painting...and even then...I mean I know it’s cartilage, but surely some artistic flair wouldn’t go amiss.
Which of course serves the double purpose of hoping for and seeing a better world, whilst also still being able to talk about those issues as they exist today. He may have been a bit...questionable...but Gene sure planned something well at least.
But not at other humans, something that a lot of fans need to figure out.
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