I do not, as you know, buy Spock/Uhura. I don't think that she should be sexless, far from it. I think she's awesome. But I can't and won't write that relationship. LALALALALALALALALALA I can't believe they did that to her. Let her date. Let her date as much as Jim and Spock do, or more. Let her date anybody she wants to date.
But not her boss, who used to be her instructor, at a military academy: that's fail, with a side of fail, with fail sauce, and some extra fail thrown in for free. Unless you seriously believe gender relations by 2268 are so unproblematic that dating your teacher at a military academy is not career suicide, this is a stupid thing for her to do.
I don't think she's un-awesome. I love her. But I don't like this aspect of her character, and I sincerely, desperately hope that in future installments, she will see this for the dumb move that it is, and if I write her, I will in fact write her doing just that.
What would you think of a new TV show where the principles were a military team, consisting of a former instructor at West Point or Annapolis, two of his former students, and the female member of the team was also boinking him? Would that be omg awesome and cool? I don't expect the media to give me good role models or political correctness, they can do whatever they want. So can I in my own fiction, and I've certainly written a load of questionable shit. But she wasn't like that in the original, she was always professional in the original. She was sexy, certainly, and super competent, and I have no problem with her being even more super competent and out in the front and awesome and sexy while doing it. But must she put out for one of the leads in order to become one herself?
I am incredibly pleased that McCoy is taking a back seat and she's one of the three most important characters in the show. This is 100% awesome. And being a love interest for her former teacher at the military academy, while gross, does not take away from her competence. She should NOT be called a slut or a whore for making this incredibly dubious decision. Men get to fuck up all the time, but let's admit that it IS in fact fucking up on her part and on Spock's, not to mention arguably an abuse of power on his part.
And yes, I want Christine and Janice back, since we've got Chekov and he wasn't even in TOS till S2--without their goofy crushes--but I'll take them with, if that means Uhura can be divested of this massive amount of fail.
I loved Uhura so much as a little girl in the 1960s, and it's because of her, not K/S, that I'm unhappy about this 'romance'. (I actually never shipped K/S before this movie--as long as Kirk was Shatner, it was like shipping my DAD--and I didn't particularly want to ship K/S.)
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But not her boss, who used to be her instructor, at a military academy: that's fail, with a side of fail, with fail sauce, and some extra fail thrown in for free. Unless you seriously believe gender relations by 2268 are so unproblematic that dating your teacher at a military academy is not career suicide, this is a stupid thing for her to do.
I don't think she's un-awesome. I love her. But I don't like this aspect of her character, and I sincerely, desperately hope that in future installments, she will see this for the dumb move that it is, and if I write her, I will in fact write her doing just that.
What would you think of a new TV show where the principles were a military team, consisting of a former instructor at West Point or Annapolis, two of his former students, and the female member of the team was also boinking him? Would that be omg awesome and cool? I don't expect the media to give me good role models or political correctness, they can do whatever they want. So can I in my own fiction, and I've certainly written a load of questionable shit. But she wasn't like that in the original, she was always professional in the original. She was sexy, certainly, and super competent, and I have no problem with her being even more super competent and out in the front and awesome and sexy while doing it. But must she put out for one of the leads in order to become one herself?
I am incredibly pleased that McCoy is taking a back seat and she's one of the three most important characters in the show. This is 100% awesome. And being a love interest for her former teacher at the military academy, while gross, does not take away from her competence. She should NOT be called a slut or a whore for making this incredibly dubious decision. Men get to fuck up all the time, but let's admit that it IS in fact fucking up on her part and on Spock's, not to mention arguably an abuse of power on his part.
And yes, I want Christine and Janice back, since we've got Chekov and he wasn't even in TOS till S2--without their goofy crushes--but I'll take them with, if that means Uhura can be divested of this massive amount of fail.
I loved Uhura so much as a little girl in the 1960s, and it's because of her, not K/S, that I'm unhappy about this 'romance'. (I actually never shipped K/S before this movie--as long as Kirk was Shatner, it was like shipping my DAD--and I didn't particularly want to ship K/S.)