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Too many characters
For anyone else tired of seeing this picture
What is this anymore?
They hate having to make this show
She's annoying
Star Trek: NothingBut Emotions
Just stop it already
Michelle Gomez
If only there was some honesty
Human Trash
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The lighting is killing it for me. Nothing screams "Ooh, take us seriously," like lighting a starship interior like a terrible bar. Call me crazy, I like to see what's going on. Are there no lightbulbs in space?
<blockquote>"He stated that her attention span was very short as she would become bored and want to go play."
This always seemed like BS to me. She was 12, not 6, and obviously Portman is of above aveage intelligence.</blockquote>
Yeah this is clearly nonsense and describes a 5 year old. She may have gotten bored to a degree, but not the way it's being infantilized here. This is the sort of thing they say to create a false context or overly diminish one person to elevate themselves. I won't deny that a 12 yo would get bored while filming a movie, of course. Adults do as well. But she was not running off to play with my little pony dolls and sucking her thumb, as the comment tries to paint it. I hate that type of anecdote. Give her the respect she deserves for having been an integral part of a complex and well done film.
It's not Moviechat. They pull all this info directly from IMDB, which is the one hiding the documentary. Go there and look at her credits.
They do things like this so they have easily malleable show runners. Take two starry eyed new writers, suddenly swept up into the big leagues, they’ll be so happy to be there, and more importantly, so scared to lose it, they will do whatever Amazon tells them to. They’re completely controllable because they will crumble at the slightest conflict.
I finished season 2 and thought I'd come back to update my post. Without giving any spoilers, the series definitely became a lot more interesting and pretty cool, actually. While I stand by my assessment that she started out far too self-absorbed and pity-wallowing, she did grow as a character and I'd like to think it cured her of some of that. A very original series and quite touching. I was iffy on the rotoscoping but for what they did with it, it was a far better choice than going live action and filling it with bargain basement CGI like so many other shows. It enabled them to dive into the premise and, once you get kind of used to the animation style, it made the things that happened a lot easier to but into. If anyone else is starting out annoyed with her, stick with it and it'll be worth it.
I have to agree on this. There are 107 shows where a teen girl does "high school drama with a supernatural twist" and they all seem to be clones of one another. Let me guess, teen girl goes to a "special" school where there's magic and a "dark secret" but ends up mostly just stuck on the hot dude and the other snarky girls at the school. She'll have at least one friend that is also an "outcast" from the cool girl club. The "dark secret" will be teased but never truly resolved. Would have been far better with either a younger or older Wednesday, but give this CW nonsense a rest.
He has great ideas. He sets up amazing characters, settings, atmospheres, mysteries, everything. He simply can't stick a landing. I think he writes blindly forward until he feels it's about time to wrap things up, pulls a quick ending out of nowhere, and calls it a day. I usually adore the first 80% of most of his books. Also, in the past several years, he's gotten a very bad case of SJW disease which affects his newer work and has made him ashamed of his best earlier work. Somehow he bungled his own ending as well. Very meta.
Mixed feelings here. First, she made the choice to wear it so she also made the choice to deal with the (predictable) reactions. We see this far too often, where someone wants to do something controversial or edgy, but also wants to completely control over everything, including who gets to react and how. It's as though they want all the benefits from a shocking act, but without ever being willing to pay the price for it. A bit of a scam, if you ask me.
Also, she frames the negativity as a sexist thing when just as many women, if not more, are absolutely brutal in their critiquing of other women. She is willfully ignoring this and cherry picking. This would be similar to an angry mob of all races and genders committing some brutal crime and then saying, "Hey, look at all these black women committing a crime!" So there's a nasty and manipulating twist to something that is otherwise partially legitimate. Everyone should be kinder and more accepting, but that message is lost once it's tribalized and turned divisive.
All of that said, it is good to see someone taking pride in themselves and playfully breaking silly societal rules. It takes courage to do something like that, especially knowing you don't fit idealized beauty standards. I will applaud her for that and I think it does send a positive message to everyone that we don't have to be perfect to be happy with ourselves.
I know and there's a post in here somewhere that I made as well that predicted it. I just had a bad feeling that it was going to be a trick. Kurtzman and his stooges just can't escape their nature.
Well, we knew this was going to happen. Kurtzman couldn't help himself and ended it with Discovery style crap. Season two will now be a serialized "save Una" arc and off we go into heavy, grim, unfun. He pulled a bait and switch and tanked the only decent new trek. He resented having to make good old fashioned uplifting classic trek so now he's roping it back to his standard trash.
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