Kuroko no Basket - Ending Pictures {Part 3}
Don’t get me wrong with these reblogs. I really, really enjoyed Star Trek Into Darkness. It was a fun film. I have several nitpicks with it (I’m a sci-fi fantasy fan and a female, it comes with the territory) which I’ll happily discuss at length in person or perhaps make a post on eventually — but I genuinely enjoyed the hell out of the film. Spock, Uhura, and Sulu really stole the heart of the film for me. That’s my just take though. But yeah, as good an actor as Cumberbatch is, I think casting him as Khan was a poor decision and the way Abrams handled it, he knew he’d done something kind of skeevy, and that deserves acknowledgement.
Some badass background characters from Star Trek Into Darkness
The navigator who made you orgasm every time she appeared onscreen is Navigation Officer Darwin, played by Aisha Hinds.
The BAMF with the white hair is unnamed (but give fandom like five minutes, just you wait). She was played by Jodi Johnston and was credited as “U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew.” This was Jodi’s first film, but if you want to see more of her, check out her modeling work under the name Jodi Ilene.
The android / cybernetically enhanced humanoid is Science Officer 0718, played by Joseph Gatt. (Fun fact: Gatt is a model and is super pretty without his shirt on.)
Also, Cupcake is back, and he’s actually credited as “Cupcake” this time instead of “Burly Cadet”! His real name is Hendorff, and he’s played by Jason Matthew Smith.
And last but never least, Madeline, played by Kimberly Broumand (née Kimberly Arland). This cap is from Star Trek (2009), but if anyone has a screencap of her from Into Darkness, please feel free to reblog and add it!
NAVIGATION OFFICER DARWIN AND THE ONE WHO LOOKS LIKE PHYLLA-VEL OH YES I LOVE THEM
Thank you for this post! These were all the people I kept wanting to know about.
I was so happy to see Madeline again because she was my favorite background character in the first movie and now I know her name.
I’m not J.J. Abrams, who’s ultimately responsible. I’m just his Asian puppet. Which, by the way, is also the title of my autobiography.
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John Cho (x) yo my heart is racing at the guts it takes to say something like this knowing full well what could happen. damn!!!! (via strugglingtobeheard) John Cho- stays dishing how he really feels. It is giving me feels. (via reallifedocumentarian) holy shit but can we get a source on this bc I want this to be true SO badly (via gaobibaituo) Click on the X and it links to the article the quote is pulled from. (via glompcat) “[B]ut you know what? My sample size is skewed. I wouldn’t know how large this [Sulu Fans] army is, but I will tell you, I adore them.” |
my favorite part of the trek press tour aside from zach and chris has GOT to be how john cho takes every opportunity he can to completely shit on jj
In the original Trek, Khan, with his brown skin, was an Übermensch, intellectually and physically perfect, possessed of such charisma and drive that despite his efforts to gain control of the Enterprise, Captain Kirk (and many of the other officers) felt admiration for him.
And that’s why the role has been taken away from actors of colour and given to a white man. Racebending.com has always pointed out that villains are generally played by people with darker skin, and that’s true … unless the villain is one with intelligence, depth, complexity. One who garners sympathy from the audience, or if not sympathy, then — as from Kirk — grudging admiration. What this new Trek movie tells us, what JJ Abrams is telling us, is that no brown-skinned man can accomplish all that. That only by having Khan played by a white actor can the audience engage with and feel for him, believe that he’s smart and capable and a match for our Enterprise crew.
And that’s why the role has been taken away from actors of colour and given to a white man. Racebending.com has always pointed out that villains are generally played by people with darker skin, and that’s true … unless the villain is one with intelligence, depth, complexity. One who garners sympathy from the audience, or if not sympathy, then — as from Kirk — grudging admiration. What this new Trek movie tells us, what JJ Abrams is telling us, is that no brown-skinned man can accomplish all that. That only by having Khan played by a white actor can the audience engage with and feel for him, believe that he’s smart and capable and a match for our Enterprise crew.
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Marissa Sammy on Star Trek: Into Whiteness. perfect commentary which parallels what Rawles was saying earlier about the possibility of Moriarty being a person of color:
You see? It’s more complicated than “people of color get typecast as villains.” Black people get typecast as an extremely specific type of villain - they’re thugs, brutish and animalistic. South Asian actors are similarly typecast as scary oppressive (usually coded Muslim) terrorists. But when your villain is of the superhuman archetype? When they’re brooding antiheroes, when they’re nuanced, when they’re multi-faceted? They’re white. (And check out this post on the glorification of white criminality in shows like Dexter, Breaking Bad, Weeds, Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, etc.) (via racebending) Check out racebending’s #Star Trek and #Khan tags for more. |
