#retroactively makes their interactions in TOS less creepy and less sexist! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ichayalovesyou · 1 year ago

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I want to once again thank SNW and Jess Bush for making Christine Chapel a whole complex and interesting human being and upgrading her wildly from being kinda creepy toward Spock and otherwise sidelined to being this kickass Klingon War veteran ambitious nurse whose WAY too good for the VSA with a seriously self-defeating aversion to vulnerability/intimate relationships. Like, daaaamn girl! You want a side of complicated with that nuanced?! 😂

#I don’t know how you can look at SNW and claim that it’s being sexist #just because Spock is a heavy aspect of her character arc #even though the nature and complexity of their relationship in THIS show #retroactively makes their interactions in TOS less creepy and less sexist!#like they’re doing their best to honor the original series while making her her own person #I do not see what’s wrong with that #I’d even go so far as to say it’s kinda sexist to assume the complexity of her character has less value just because Spock is involved #it’s not like he swept her off her feet and she had no agency in the matter #she’s like as much of a whole person as a fictional character can be #sigggggh #star trek #star trek strange new worlds #Christine chapel #Jess bush #venting

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