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dahlia_moonStar Trek (2009)
I really loved this film. I did. It was awesome and had A LOT of awesome people I had seen in previous movies/just loved in public generally. And it was just AWESOME. No, really. I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH HOW VERY FUN THIS MOVIE IS.
But it also made me very uncomfortable.
I can't explain it very well except to say a) I did not like Kirk manipulating Spock so Kirk could essentially take his captaincy away. (Talking about not loving his mother, way to hit below the belt, Kirk.How 'bout we talk about your father issues.) I get it's complicated and that they're living in an alternative reality because of Nero and Nero's decision to come back to the past for his revenge and effectively altering all of their lives especially the correct timeline where Kirk should've been the golden boy properly from the start. And I get that Kirk is a better captain in the sense that he takes chances in certain situations wherein Spock would not necessarily take those chances. I dunno. Maybe I'm trying to dump reality into a sci-fi movie? Where reality as we know it to be does not exist? It just seems like maybe Spock should've realized that Kirk was just goading him. He was not being a very good Vulcan.
And b) the whole implication of Uhura's and Spock's relationship. I know they're about the same age and so it's not really that skeevy if you think about it(they're two totally hot and consenting adults). But he was her teacher at the academy. Right? Or in like a TA position? It just felt so very wrong to me. Not that I don't love Uhura (and Zoe Saldana) and Spock as characters but...I have no idea. (I can think of a few instances in fandom wherein I *do* ship characters that were in teacher/student relationships and that didn't squick me out [in Cardcaptor Sakura, for example, it's very heavily implied that a female student and her *fourth grade teacher* are in a relationship and I have no problem with *that* but that could be because they aren't really in a relationship, they mostly talk about their feelings being mutual and WANTING to be in a relationship with each other but, more importantly, NEVER acting on those feelings so it's all very INNOCENT], but here it somehow does make me uncomfortable and I can't exactly articulate it in an intelligent way but to say NOOO DNW.) No, Spock, I'm totally supposed to be on the Enterprise! / Why, yes, yes, you are, Nyota. What's the big deal about the Enterprise? It's the only ship in the entire Federation that gets in all the death situations. If I was a smart character in this movie, I'd totally stay away from it.
Also, way too many men being awesome and not too many women being awesome (which could relate back to point B somehow but then again, I am not very smart when it comes to this subject, it just so happens that spending time on Tumblr and following feminist type blogs kinda awakens your eyes to things you would've happily ignored otherwise. Like two very important women hardly have lines/scenes. Amanda is shown only speaking with Spock, and we only see Wiona Kirk at the very beginning and that was it. Amanda's death plays a big part of course but only in relation to Spock and how it makes *him* feel and lose control. Of course one can say that this is really a movie about Spock and Kirk's destiny so their mothers shouldn't play that big a role anyway. But in a big movie like this where the majority of the characters are male from the get-go, a little variety would be nice).
And I'm really just totally in love with Scotty. (Stupid Simon Pegg. Stop being awesome.) So that's all that needs to be said about that.
I really did love this movie. It was fantastic, just you know - not the above.
I really loved this film. I did. It was awesome and had A LOT of awesome people I had seen in previous movies/just loved in public generally. And it was just AWESOME. No, really. I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH HOW VERY FUN THIS MOVIE IS.
But it also made me very uncomfortable.
I can't explain it very well except to say a) I did not like Kirk manipulating Spock so Kirk could essentially take his captaincy away. (Talking about not loving his mother, way to hit below the belt, Kirk.
And b) the whole implication of Uhura's and Spock's relationship. I know they're about the same age and so it's not really that skeevy if you think about it
Also, way too many men being awesome and not too many women being awesome (which could relate back to point B somehow but then again, I am not very smart when it comes to this subject, it just so happens that spending time on Tumblr and following feminist type blogs kinda awakens your eyes to things you would've happily ignored otherwise. Like two very important women hardly have lines/scenes. Amanda is shown only speaking with Spock, and we only see Wiona Kirk at the very beginning and that was it. Amanda's death plays a big part of course but only in relation to Spock and how it makes *him* feel and lose control. Of course one can say that this is really a movie about Spock and Kirk's destiny so their mothers shouldn't play that big a role anyway. But in a big movie like this where the majority of the characters are male from the get-go, a little variety would be nice).
And I'm really just totally in love with Scotty. (Stupid Simon Pegg. Stop being awesome.) So that's all that needs to be said about that.
I really did love this movie. It was fantastic, just you know - not the above.