It’s really upsetting to me that George Takei is openly against Sulu being gay in Star Trek Beyond.
Like I respect he’s allowed to have opinions on a character he once played but I 10000% agree with Pegg that introducing a new character and making them gay ran the very likely risk of them becoming The Token Gay. It takes a lot of time to establish a new character and if you introduce a character and the first thing you know about them is that they’re The Gay One then that’s all the average audience is gonna absorb about them. They’re the Gay Character. That’s it.
But when you reveal that a long standing, established character, with a long history, also happens to be gay, like that’s a big fucking deal.
And not only that but this great, well loved character is a POC, and not only is he gay but he’s married, with a child.
That makes a statement. That sends an important message to the audience. Queer people are everywhere. They’re your barista and your taxi driver and your doctor and your lawyer and your neighbor and your friend.
And now they’re the senior helmsman of the USS Enterprise.
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Steve: What race are you guys going with?
Mike: Unknown.
Me: What, you’re just going to wear a cloak and hope no one notices?
Mike: Yup!
Hopefully Sulu being gay will mean that Lucasfilms will feel like they have to one up Star Trek and add more gay characters. A chain reaction of making every character LGBT+ just because of rivalry.
Defeating capitalism can’t be that hard. How much HP does it have?
the World Boss Capitalism has 1,951,484 hp, but it also has a companion boss called The State and that boss has 2,487,313 hp and if you don’t get them both to 0 at about the same time they just start spamming shields & heals on each other & The State starts using OHKO attacks on your entire group
Damn, that must be why Marx recommends a party.
We’d have finished this raid by now if SOMEONE didn’t keep splitting the party
Fourth International, rushing in alone: “LEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOON TRRROOOOOTSSKKKYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!”
DAMN THOUGH can we have a moment of appreciation for how different Bucky’s fighting style is compared to WS??
Credit for this absolutely goes to Sebastian Stan’s character work. In Civil War when Bucky is in a fight/in danger he’s literally so expressive, compared to the Dead Eyed Murder Glare™ we’re accustomed to from the Winter Soldier.
Like REALLY:
And it’s such a neat thing because Civil War Bucky is still super competent, he’s got the WS’s skills, but he’s also FREAKING THE HELL OUT HE DIDN’T ASK FOR ANY OF THIS
HE JUST WANTED TO BUY SOME PLUMS FFS
these wide-eyed OH FUCK facial expressions are like half the reason why the GET REKT jokes are so freaking funny, because it’s so different from how the Winter Soldier would’ve acted [[*analyzes a meme*]]
But this is IMPORTANT because one of the things I was so relieved about from this movie was that it emphasized the separation between the Winter Soldier persona and Bucky’s ACTUAL PERSONALITY when he’s not being mind-controlled and forced to kill people.
Yeah, I have my gripes/nitpicks about the movie, lots of us do – but on this particular point I’m SO pleased with the respect that was shown for Bucky’s character. Most of the fans take it for granted that ~Bucky Barnes Is Not A Villian 2k14~, but he could have been written off that way!!! Even just by making less of a distinction between the Bucky that was controlled by Hydra and one who has his own internal life & personality.
I think we should appreciate the fact that the characterization we got could not have happened without collaboration from the creatives in charge: clear direction from the Russos, the writers using a strong narrative device like Bucky being programmed by trigger words, and of course Sebastian Stan acting his face off and totally changing his body language depending on which version he was portraying.
Sebastian Stan proved his acting mettle when he stole CA: Winter Soldier with only a handful of spoken lines and only his eyes visible for like half the damn movie. In CA: CW, though, he takes it to a whole new level. The whole time, he’s viscerally aware of what Bucky’s state of mind would be. He showed us, with his face and eyes and body, whether he was Bucky or the Winter Soldier.
very good observation here about how important Sebastian Stan’s facial acting was in CACW. ESPECIALLY for movie audiences who aren’t as in tune with the fandom – who were the people still calling the winter soldier a “villain”. By having him react, being freaked the fuck out, and overall being the opposite of a MurderBot, you get a much more sympathetic character – and making the tragedy that much more astute when you see how he was stripped of his will with a series of words and powerless to fight them.
Which also makes it THAT MUCH MORE impressive and really shows just how strong Bucky and Steve feel for each other when Steve was able to snap him out of it in CATWS with “I’ with you till the end of the line”.
me: all right! time to get some writing done!
brain: we can’t.
me: um?
brain: the stars are not in alignment for this chapter.
me: meaning..?
brain: something is wrong with the last thing you wrote that’s going to matter down the line, and unless you fix it now, whatever you do next won’t work.
me: right, okay, cool! what needs fixing?
brain: I don’t know.
me: what
brain: look, my knowledge of the problem is a wave-and-particle dealie. I can know that there’s an error or I can know what needs to happen, but I can’t know both at once.
me: UM.
brain: we totes fucked up, tho
me: …
brain: it’s fine! just let it percolate, I’ll figure it out.
me: have you ever heard of this thing
me: it’s called a DEADLINE
me: and WE HAVE ONE
me: SOON
brain: …
brain: new thought who dis
