I just wanted to clarify, my feelings about the whole Khan thing...it's probably not the opinion of the general audience/fans/market and I can see that and I can understand why and if I came across trying to speak for them, I definitely did not mean to. Representation in visual media, especially films confound me and I don't think I'll ever understand it. I think I was just hoping for things from something that means a lot to me on a philosophical level and in the scheme of things when it comes to the point of plain entertainment, it's not important. Sure I wish, Abrahms had the vision to push what Roddenberry started further and having an audience who demanded for better representation would be amazing. But most people don't go to the movies to critically analyze what's on screen. And I'm guilty of it too. Just because I'm involved in Trek means I'm more critical of it but I can't expect that from the general audience.
But yeah, I'll stop with all the Trek movie feels here. The silver lining in this for me is that reboot!verse despite all of its flaws is fun to play in and that there might be a possibility of another reboot Trek in general in my lifetime since this kicked open the door for that at least and that's a win in my book :)
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I just wanted to clarify, my feelings about the whole Khan thing...it's probably not the opinion of the general audience/fans/market and I can see that and I can understand why and if I came across trying to speak for them, I definitely did not mean to. Representation in visual media, especially films confound me and I don't think I'll ever understand it. I think I was just hoping for things from something that means a lot to me on a philosophical level and in the scheme of things when it comes to the point of plain entertainment, it's not important. Sure I wish, Abrahms had the vision to push what Roddenberry started further and having an audience who demanded for better representation would be amazing. But most people don't go to the movies to critically analyze what's on screen. And I'm guilty of it too. Just because I'm involved in Trek means I'm more critical of it but I can't expect that from the general audience.
But yeah, I'll stop with all the Trek movie feels here. The silver lining in this for me is that reboot!verse despite all of its flaws is fun to play in and that there might be a possibility of another reboot Trek in general in my lifetime since this kicked open the door for that at least and that's a win in my book :)