Anya ,'Storyteller'
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I said in someone's FB re: Khan that it's not that he whitewashed him (RM was an ethnic minority, but not a racial one, seeing as both his parents were from Spain, and he was in brownface for the TOS episode) so much as that he used him period.
As good as WoK was, Space Seed is an appalling episode, filled with all sorts of problematic crap, and Khan in it is epically rapey and gross.
I think one of the reasons they even considered using RM was because of his accent. I remember reading somewhere about how bitter he was that the accent held him back from a number of good roles. For Khan, it kind of helped that he had one so that the audience was better able to buy into the role; it fulfilled some kind of expectation of the "other." At that period of time in Hollywood, I wouldn't be surprised if that was their main consideration.
The prequels for the Star Wars movies burned out any lingering enthusiasm I had for the franchise as a whole, and Pete feels the same but even more so. So we'll go see The Force Awakens if we hear/read good things about it, but it isn't an automatic "must see in theatre!" movie for us right now.
The prequels for the Star Wars movies burned out any lingering enthusiasm I had for the franchise as a whole
There is no WORD big enough to articulate how much word I have for this.
Someone will have to give this one a gold-plated review before I can be bothered, nostalgia be damned.
I enjoyed enough of the sequels that I'd watch them again if I stumbled across them.
I have such complicated feelings about Star Wars. Cannot sum up.
I've never had any great attachment to Star Wars. I enjoyed the original movies well enough, but thought the overall reaction to them to be out of proportion to the quality of them.
The prequels were pretty but the cartoon Clone Wars are better. I'll see the sequels for completest reasons, but I don't have a great investment in the whole thing.
Oh, man, I loved the original trilogy so much, and hated the first prequel so much, I never saw any of the other movies.
But I'm enjoying SW Rebels, and oh, the MUSIC and the pan across the desert, and Han and Chewie!
I've started to hope again. This is bad. I remember what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek, my other beloved childhood franchise.
I remember what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek, my other beloved childhood franchise.
It could be an insidious ploy from the dark side.
I'm cautiously optimistic. What bothers me more, at the moment, is how little the universe has apparently changed in 30 years. Rebels in X-wings vs Imperial Tie Fighters seems like the Star Wars universe got stuck in a bubble where nothing changed except for the inhabitants getting older.