Khan's Into Darkness Appearance change finally explained
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I bet they killed off all their gingers
For every one 'rage-a-holic fanatic' I'll give you 10 Abrams has 'destroyed Star Trek (and my childhood
).I might have said the same thing about Berman Trek when it came out. Yes I may have thought Berman destroyed Star Trek all those years ago - at least a little bit. Although my childhood was always intact as I had novels and VHS tapes
For every one 'rage-a-holic fanatic' I'll give you 10 Abrams has 'destroyed Star Trek (and my childhood
I'm not sure about that at all, actually. The latter are certainly out there, but AFAICT the former have a pronounced tendency to conflate any critic or skeptic of NuTrek with that mentality and thence to imagine its being far more widespread than it actually is.
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For every one 'rage-a-holic fanatic' I'll give you 10 Abrams has 'destroyed Star Trek (and my childhood
I'm not sure about that at all, actually. The latter are certainly out there, but AFAICT the former have a pronounced tendency to conflate any critic or skeptic of NuTrek with that mentality and thence to imagine its being far more widespread than it actually is.
The same could be said of either side. Just because for example you say that you don't care/mind about Khan's ethnicity doesn't mean you're a rage-a-holic Abrams fanatic.
In theory, yes; in practice I don't see "either side" behaving that way equally often, at least not here on these boards. (Although I do note this dynamic seems to be changing for the better overall.)
I'm not sure Khan's ethnicity was ever established clearly anyway.
It was vague, at best, and haphazardly done. Khan's entire back-story in "Space Seed" consisted of not much more than a couple of lines - supposition and broad general statement, mostly, and much of that was later ignored or rewritten for TWoK.
Sorry, but I should very much like to nominate this sort of stock response for the aforementioned cheat sheet.
However clear or unclear the specifics of his ethnicity may not be at any point, he is always named Khan Noonien Singh, a name with conspicuously South Asian resonance. That's why even non-Trekkie audience members were able to twig to the oddness of his being played by a white guy. So this really strikes me as being a bit of a dodge.
How was any of it "rewritten" for TWOK? At best it was left unmentioned, but that's not the same as rewriting it.
Yeah, like... anyone... noticed that.
Like I stated before, if you were able to show me that any of these fished for in hindsight complaints about TWOK showed up in at least one review at the time of TWOK's release, I consider accepting it as legitimate argument. But until that, I state that nobody even noticed that and that it wasn't an issue at all. Nobody went out of TWOK thinking "Dude, they totally whitewashed Khan!" or "Dude, they changed his entire backstory!" because the writers actively didn't. People went out thinking "Dude, Chekov had never met Khan!" and "Dude, was Carol that blond technician?!"
Indeed. Not to mention that "selective breeding" and "genetic engineering" are not incompatible.
Of all the forms of continuity tailgunning, "but TWOK did it too" is so very often the wrongest and lamest. (Closely matched by the equally silly "you're just like the crazy fans who hated TWOK!!!")
I don't think they used the term 'Whitewashed' in that way when TWOK was released.
And I think 'genetically engineered' is just updating the Khan story for the 21st century. The details are just changed - not the intention. Genetic engineering wasn't dreamed of realistically in the 60s or 80s.
As said way upthread, no home video, no easy screencaps, no transcript sites, direct comparisons weren't possible the way they are today.
I wonder how long it was between the last rerun of "Space Seed" and the debut of WoK?
An occasionally pompous abuse of the English language won't transform the definition of duplicity. Reasonably equivalent standards should be applied to both universes if one hopes to avoid the appropriate appellation.
Imagine an anonymous and presumably grown man giving the same three reasons for hating Abrams Trek that he gave for loving First Contact. Should such a man be taken seriously?
I'll continue to tailgun the continuity wherever I encounter continuity based bias.
Imagine an anonymous and presumably grown man giving the same three reasons for hating Abrams Trek that he gave for loving First Contact. Should such a man be taken seriously?
I'll continue to tailgun the continuity wherever I encounter continuity based bias.
Since it was in syndication, the chances are that somewhere it played within days. And a small portion of fans may have had VCRs or other technology capable of recording. If comparisons were to be made, it was definitely possible.
Genetic engineering was the update in TWOK.
Well, going by this I suppose I can trust you to know about "pompous abuse of the English language." But desperate attempts to pretend equivalence where none exists should be called out for what they are. "Ricardo Montalban was white* so what's the big deal" and "they totes rewrote Khan in TWOK*" are perfect examples of this.
* On account of he wasn't, and they didn't (CommishSleer has it right about the latter), and those are sort of problems for claiming that he was and they did.
And presumably you'll continue to completely miss the mark in doing so, and continue wondering why your arguments fail to impress.
