Alice Eve sayin’ it like it is
plot twist: carol marcus is putting on a front of being a weak female character the entire movie but at the very end she brutally murders jj abrams and resurrects gene roddenberry from a pool of abrams’ blood. the crowd is ecstatic.
list of female reboot characters who aren’t A) mother of a main character or B) shown in their underwear at least once:
- ….
- ………
- ………….yeah I got nothin’
ANd a reminder that two of the four women in the Reboot aren’t even named within the script. So for those people who are casual fans have no idea that Winona is Winona or Amanda is Amanda.
Instead they are only known by their relationship to their sons and husbands.
Winona is George Kirk’s Sweetheart and Jim Kirk’s Mother
Amanda is Spock’s Mother, and his Father’s Whore.
Ain’t that swell?
#HOLY SHIT#that last comment#I have seen the movie multiple times and I didn’t even#I didn’t even notice that#I HAD TO GO THE TRANSCRIPT AND CTRL+F TO CHECK BECAUSE I ALMOST DIDN’T BELIEVE IT#they didn’t give AMANDA HER NAME#or Winona but they actually TOOK AMANDA’S NAME AWAY#and then KILLED HER#FUCK#FUCK THE WORLD#and they gave Uhura a first name but it was passed between male characters like an object#accidentally dropped by one and greedily picked up by the other#never given freely#EXCUSE ME I NEED TO GO PUNCH SOMETHING
I feel like there’s some really rageworthy meta potential here about how men’s names are important, but women’s names don’t matter at all (unless, as perceptively pointed out above, that name can be used by male characters to signify possession/etc).
#Think about this: we learn both Jim’s grandfathers’ names in that opening scene#neither of whom are present or ever in the movie at all#but not Jim’s mother’s name#even though she’s right there#in the scene#givin’ birth to the main character#And they couldn’t have had George tag on a ”Winona!” to any part of his dialogue?#like obviously the granfathers’ names were relevant for good reason - of course they were#but they could just have easily have mentioned Winona’s name too y’know? (via greenscrewdriver)
I’d draw a Venn Diagram of the Reboot Starfleet women who are named onscreen and the Reboot Starfleet women that appear in their underwear in a scene catering to the male gaze, but it’s just a circle.
Both Uhura and Marcus have to argue with Kirk with the whole “let me do my job” line in order to actually do anything.
Gaila is probably dead, but like the Reboot never actually acknowledged what it would be like for the majority of a character’s classmates and friends to have died in a vicious and unprovoked attack. We don’t get to see Uhura mourning the loss of her roommate and friend. The only person who is allowed to lose control of his emotions is Spock, and that’s just so that Kirk can become captain.
Amanda is definitely dead, but we never actually learn her name.
Winona is MIA, but she doesn’t matter because we don’t know her name. Is she dead? Is she alive? We probably will never know unless the writers want to kill off another one of Kirk’s parental figures to fuel his emotional instability in a later movie. Then she’ll matter moments before they stick her in the interstellar fridge. (I can see it now… Kirk finally gets the chance to reconcile with his mother right at the moment of her death… “I forgive you… Mom.” Then, he’ll get angry and almost kill the bad guy in his grieving rage.)
I mean, we hear about Kirk’s father over and over and over again. Pike mentions his legacy. Spock mentions his legacy. In contrast, no one mentions Amanda besides Sarek after her death. Both are tragically lost parents of the main characters, yet the treatment they receive by the script is radically different.
