Star Trek: The Rebootening
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Oh New Trek, I love and hate you so much! You're beautifully filmed and filled with explosions and gorgeous people and sly references to TOS and attempts at racial diversity, and your characterizations make no sense and you have plot holes big enough to consume a score of Federation planets and your franchise is kind of actually really predicated on creepy space colonialism.
And the fandom has taken off like -- something that takes off very quickly. I can't think of a metaphor that doesn't have to do with spaceships. There is fiction and meta and wank, and fiction/meta/wank about sexism and racism and homophobia. I'm alternately delighted and appalled. It's very disorienting.
My initial impulse has been to zero in on the Kirk/Spock slash, because in case you haven't been paying attention, I have this thing for epic gay destiny. However, Uhura was completely awesome in the parts she was in (as Jadey said, it felt like there was a whole other movie out there somewhere starring Uhura (and her girl posse?) which explained where she was when all the boys were having their "Hells yeah!" moments), and I feel like a complete douche breaking a sweet canon couple in order to take the hot alien from the black woman and give him to the white man. Is this what hypocrisy feels like? Nooo, I want diverse characters! I do! Really! I'll play nicely with them, I swear!*
Clearly the only answer is RPS.** CPine/ZQuinto for mayor 2009!
* Do not take the playful tone as dismissal of the complex race issues in this fandom. I'm actually pretty conflicted as to the morality of my superficial desire for man-on-man action at the expense of a fantastic canon het interracial relationship which not only breaks the classic hero-gets-the-girl formula but is depicted as being the woman's choice instead of being a reward for saving the day.
** I think I've lost my RPS shame. The only reason I'm not posting tons of Merlin RPS all over the place is that my writing is still kind of shit. Seriously, what the fuck happened? I used to cry myself to sleep over the loss of my innocence or whatever. Now I'm all AND THEN THEY HAD KINKY SEX IN THAT FRENCH CASTLE WHERE THEY FILMED THE SHOW. Well, at least I'm not completely morally abhorrent like, I don't know, Perez Hilton or something.
Oh New Trek, I love and hate you so much! You're beautifully filmed and filled with explosions and gorgeous people and sly references to TOS and attempts at racial diversity, and your characterizations make no sense and you have plot holes big enough to consume a score of Federation planets and your franchise is kind of actually really predicated on creepy space colonialism.
And the fandom has taken off like -- something that takes off very quickly. I can't think of a metaphor that doesn't have to do with spaceships. There is fiction and meta and wank, and fiction/meta/wank about sexism and racism and homophobia. I'm alternately delighted and appalled. It's very disorienting.
My initial impulse has been to zero in on the Kirk/Spock slash, because in case you haven't been paying attention, I have this thing for epic gay destiny. However, Uhura was completely awesome in the parts she was in (as Jadey said, it felt like there was a whole other movie out there somewhere starring Uhura (and her girl posse?) which explained where she was when all the boys were having their "Hells yeah!" moments), and I feel like a complete douche breaking a sweet canon couple in order to take the hot alien from the black woman and give him to the white man. Is this what hypocrisy feels like? Nooo, I want diverse characters! I do! Really! I'll play nicely with them, I swear!*
Clearly the only answer is RPS.** CPine/ZQuinto for mayor 2009!
* Do not take the playful tone as dismissal of the complex race issues in this fandom. I'm actually pretty conflicted as to the morality of my superficial desire for man-on-man action at the expense of a fantastic canon het interracial relationship which not only breaks the classic hero-gets-the-girl formula but is depicted as being the woman's choice instead of being a reward for saving the day.
** I think I've lost my RPS shame. The only reason I'm not posting tons of Merlin RPS all over the place is that my writing is still kind of shit. Seriously, what the fuck happened? I used to cry myself to sleep over the loss of my innocence or whatever. Now I'm all AND THEN THEY HAD KINKY SEX IN THAT FRENCH CASTLE WHERE THEY FILMED THE SHOW. Well, at least I'm not completely morally abhorrent like, I don't know, Perez Hilton or something.