News Next live-action Short Trek has a working title and new director

[mos6507]

Oh, goody. This again. Maybe we can get a "Mary Sue" and "reverse racism" thrown in for a trifecta.

If the shoe fits...

 

[The Butter Phantom]

Only in Star Trek can you be a genocidal dictator and still be redeemed!

Um... Loki?

 

[The Butter Phantom]

That's four female directors versus eleven male directors, with ten out of twenty-nine episodes having been directed between these four female directors. That means roughly two-thirds of episodes (65.5%) are still directed by male directors.

Even less. Olatunde Osunsanmi is male.

 

[Soong-type Android]

Um... Loki?

I suppose you could add Doctor Octopus to that list who for decades was a mass murdering supervillain but has since been reinvented as a hero called 'Superior Spider-Man' and now resides in a cloned body of Peter Parker.

 

[The Butter Phantom]

I suppose you could add Doctor Octopus to that list who for decades was a mass murdering supervillain but has since been reinvented as a hero called 'Superior Spider-Man' and now resides in a cloned body of Peter Parker.

Add Doctor Who's The Master/Missy, Star Wars's Darth Vader (though he's an enforcer), various Cylons in Battlestar Galactica. It's not an uncommon trope.

 

[Disco!Disco!]

That and saying they prefer female directors. What a ridiculous age we live in where saying that is acceptable.

Most of the show's directors are male, but I guess a quarter-to-a-third of the directors being female is just too much for you, isn't it?

 

[Tim Thomason]

Add Doctor Who's The Master/Missy, Star Wars's Darth Vader (though he's an enforcer), various Cylons in Battlestar Galactica. It's not an uncommon trope.

Xena: Warrior Princess. Our great hero who became more maniacal with each flashback.

 

[RuthlessNate]

Even less. Olatunde Osunsanmi is male.

Oops! That's embarrassing.

 

[Lord Garth]

Oh, goody. This again. Maybe we can get a "Mary Sue" and "reverse racism" thrown in for a trifecta.

I'm of the opinion that until cops stop shooting down blacks just because they can since the "justice" system will let them get away with it, no one should ever say anything about "reverse racism". "I felt like my life was in danger" my ass.

 

[seigezunt]

I think the "prefers women directors" thing goes back to comments made by Robert Duncan McNeill, who'd approached DSC producers about directing.

Discovery does a limited number of episodes and a priority there is to get female and diverse directors, so there are fewer opportunities for people like me, which is a great thing.

https://trekmovie.com/2018/07/09/ro...nt-be-directing-star-trek-discovery-season-2/

 

[F. King Daniel]

Most of the show's directors are male, but I guess a quarter-to-a-third of the directors being female is just too much for you, isn't it?

If we don't stop them now, they'll start driving cars and becoming doctors!

 

[SJGardner]

If we don't stop them now, they'll start driving cars and becoming doctors!

The horror! Last time I've heard, these hew-mons have started forcing their females to wear clothes! What has this world come to?

... no, I keep trying to imagine the people saying these things as Ferengi, but it somehow never makes them any less infuriating.

 

[RuthlessNate]

I think the "prefers women directors" thing goes back to comments made by Robert Duncan McNeill, who'd approached DSC producers about directing.
https://trekmovie.com/2018/07/09/ro...nt-be-directing-star-trek-discovery-season-2/

Good on Robert Duncan McNeill for supporting the push for diversity, but it's not like they haven't been hiring white male directors. Looking at all the male directors so far, out of the twelve, ten to eleven of them are white men (the only one I couldn't confirm was David Barrett). So the ratio of white male directors to everyone else among Discovery's directors is 2 to 1.

I think Kpnuts is going to have to try harder on his whole "Diversity is bad" opinions.

 

[Disco!Disco!]

 

[Cyrus]

Stamets - A white male who is brilliant and not evil. Or does he not count because he's gay?

Yes, straight white male characters are the only ones that matter to some people. Lack of these type of characters is the source of hatred toward Discovery from these dudes. So Stamets doesn’t count but Pike should and now he is gone.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Good on Robert Duncan McNeill for supporting the push for diversity, but it's not like they haven't been hiring white male directors. Looking at all the male directors so far, out of the twelve, ten to eleven of them are white men (the only one I couldn't confirm was David Barrett). So the ratio of white male directors to everyone else among Discovery's directors is 2 to 1.

I think Kpnuts is going to have to try harder on his whole "Diversity is bad" opinions.

David Barrett

 

[donners22]

Discovery casting white males as either idiots (Conolly) or evil (Lorca, Leland) is what’s sexist.

Stamets, Anderson, Spock and Sarek were neither idiots nor evil, and Pike was held up as the exemplar of Starfleet values.

Meanwhile, Landry - a non-white female - was possibly the dumbest and among the most unprincipled of the lot, in both universes.

 

[BillJ]

Stamets, Anderson, Spock and Sarek were neither idiots nor evil...

I think Anderson might be stretching it.

I agree with the rest. Though those who have an axe to grind would point out Spock and Sarek were aliens and not representative of white men.

 

[donners22]

Though those who have an axe to grind would point out Spock and Sarek were aliens and not representative of white men.

Well, the complaint was about "casting white men", so not only should they count, but so should Saru!

 

[BillJ]

I’m not being sexist. Discovery casting white males as either idiots (Conolly) or evil (Lorca, Leland) is what’s sexist.

Have you watched the show?