The thing I find lame about SNW is that they "lean into" Spock's human half. Ohhhhh oo-hoo-hooooo look at me! I'm a writer who wants to put my goofy ass spin on Mr. Spock!
But then they want to call it a canon prequel to the ORIGINAL? Like canon. To the original. I don't buy it. Canon to the OG where Spock is literally disgusted and ashamed of his human half and has spent his ENTIRE life hiding it? Like the entire time, that includes the time in which SNW supposedly takes place? And the T'Pring shit I can't even bring myself to talk about because it deviates so far from canon? A one-off character they just brought back to make Spock seem less fucking gay?
Hoh look a musical episode! Wow! It's camp get it??? Camp?? Cuz the original was campy?? Except Spock is straightwashed so they managed to make camp heterocentric so what are they doing and what was the point? Who the hell is this supposed to be for?
What. Were. They. Thinking. I'm going insane. Episode where SPOCK becomes HUMAN? Episode where they SPLIT the MIXED RACE character who was written as MIXED RACE in the SIXTIES! I dare them to write a goofy episode where Oops! I turn Full Native and see how quirky and racially sensitive it is. Hoho so fun and goofy!
No I cannot overlook these transgressions. I want as many people as possible to know that I'm disgusted and to feel vindicated in knowing that they aren't the only one. I'm so sorry fellow mixed race queers. We deserve better from a "Star Trek show". And Spock as a character deserves so much more respect than he's ever given in reboot writing. A kid with a Spock action figure could conjure up a superior narrative.
I haven't been this angry since AOS (straight Spock [x2] White Khan [x1] mental diarrhea [x1000]).
There's so many types of Star Trek Show at this point that there is bound to be some contention over what is the "right vibe" and what is sacrilege but whatever the fuck SNW and AOS is dishing out is just sooooo far removed from everything I found appealing about Star Trek. Oooo big het guys do tuff stuff but never in a gay way (maybe throw a qweer in the background so people can't call out lack of rep) and also the enterprise looks like a migraine and maybe there's some explosions oooooooo [has a stroke and fucking dies]
Rin: so I was going home from middle school and this asshole jumped me so I obviously beat the shit out of him and he went to the hospital for a broken nose and internal bleeding
Bon: I'm so glad you stopped doing that like a week before we met
I love those spirk ffc where Spock is pining hard but all he does is "I'm going to meditate" like he is me when I was 15yo thinking that my crush would like me back just bc I manifested it in my head.
Spock: if I meditate hard enough Jim will return my affections
Gotta say, overwatch's comunnity on tumblr is so so so refreshing and nicer then anywhere else, mainly because people here seem to enioy one thing more than anything else: the characters!
I find it so fruatrating how anywhere else people seem to only be able to complain. Complain about balance, about characters, about content creators, about anytjing really! Here is so much nicer.
While i see balance opinions, or complaints about blizzards choices on how to deal with characters and the story, it isnt nearly as inflamatory as in other places.
People here love the characters! The world! Most complains come from this love, be it criticising lore things like kirikos ages, or the lack of skins for certain characters. And I love this, because I fell in love with these characters, all of them.
I think this is a consequence of tumblrs fandom culture, as we naturally go for the characters in media even before focousing on the try hard competitive balance stuff (a lot of us dont even play comp lmao)
I see so much cool and different art (not only thirst over the women) I see head canons and people dexlaring their love for zennyata, mercy, bastiom, ramattra and many more!!
Love you guys, really. Seeing people who will interact with the game in other eays other than complaining makes me feel less alone as a avid overwatch lover, even with its flaws (blizzard).
i never had a problem with (and even kinda liked) aos until i started trying to read fanfic and every "tos" fic is secretly about chris pine and my brain has to reboot without warning
As much as I hate Ward, he is legitimately such a fascinating villain. We're led (by him, crucially) to believe that he's like that because his parents and older brother abused him and Garrett manipulated him.
But then we find out that no, he was always like that. His older brother says that, while he was cruel to Ward, he didn't make him do anything, and only admits otherwise under extreme duress. We see flashbacks that show us that Ward stole a car and drove 100 miles to light his house on fire with his brother inside. His younger brother, who Ward claimed to love and protect, is terrified of him.
I think all the Ward apologists and redeemers need to remember that he is a known liar and manipulator. The audience can't trust literally anything he says.
He says that he's only like that because of Garrett and his family, but even after he's free of them he continues to be awful. If anything he just gets worse. For christ's sake, in the Framework, which is essentially an opposite world, Ward is good. That's telling enough.
He will do and say literally anything to avoid taking an inch of accountability for his actions. He's the Simone Biles of mental gymnastics, to the point that he seems to genuinely believe everything he says. It's so interesting.