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askclint:

Just FYI Khan was supposed to be from northern India and yet he was played by Ricardo Mantelban who spoke with a Latino accent so it’s not like they got his race right the first time either (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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A) There were immigration restrictions on Asians during the fifties/sixties. This means it is entirely possible that they may not have actually been able to find an Indian actor to play the role. I can’t find the source where I originally read this, so never mind. If anyone has a link please let me know so I can have all my receipts.

B) So yeah, they fucked up in the 60s. But there’s this magical thing called progress, which means that by now we should be able to get it right. There is no dearth of brown actors in this day and age. There is no lack of great Indian actors. There are many who have the acting chops and are of the right race to play Khan.

C) At least Montalban was a POC playing a POC. There is a major distinction between that and a white person playing a POC.

D) Cumberbatch is a white man playing a POC. There are already so few roles which are written/given to POC and the number has now been significantly lessened.

E) Khan was genetically engineered to be a better human. He’s stronger, smarter, faster than any other human, including the white male protagonist. He was genetically superior to all others. And he was a POC. This, written in the 60s, was earth-shatteringly progressive. It is still progressive today, as most heroes are still white. Having such a vital character taken from the ranks of great roles for POC (of which there are very few) is incredibly upsetting and problematic.

F) Usually when POC are cast as villains they are thuggish, dull, and ineffective. Khan was none of these things. He was sympathetic. He was complex. The role of Khan is a great one and it is absolutely important that he was specifically written to be a POC.

G) Star Trek was ground-breaking for providing major roles for POC actors in a time when there were few. Uhura and Sulu, a black woman and an Asian man, were main characters. Martin Luther King Jr actually spoke with Nichelle Nichols and asked her to remain on the show when she wanted to leave because of how important it was that there was a prominent black female character on television. Star Trek was a show about racial progress in the media. It was about moving forward. Casting Cumberbatch as a character who should be played by a POC is a step backwards.

H) There’s some really gross history between India and Britain, which adds to how problematic it is that a British actor was chosen to play an Indian character. So not only has Khan been whitewashed, he’s been whitewashed in an historically despicable way.

I) Stark Trek: Into Darkness was distributed by Paramount Pictures, the same studio responsible for whitewashing the Avatar: The Last Airbender movie adaptation.

Representation is important and it is incredibly hurtful that so many people do not see how important Khan as a character of color is.

(via newton-pulsifer)

The man cannot showrun. He can write single episodes beautifully. He can create minor characters with really interesting, insular story lines. He can carve mini-arcs that are clever and charming. But he cannot maintain it for an entire series. He can barely hold it up for a two-parter. Moffat has the writer’s equivalent of erectile dysfunction, and I’m so incredibly bored of holding up his flaccid dick and telling him it’s normal. Moffat’s that guy you meet at university who wants to tell you his philosophy about a tree, or read you his poetry off his iPad in a corner - all talk and no substance. You know the guy. The guy who says a lot of words, and for the first five minutes of interacting with him you think he’s damn smart, until the little voice in your head says ‘…wait a moment, he’s not actually saying anything. They’re just words. Lots of them. Flying out of his mouth. Why won’t someone stop the mouth words?’

I’m sick of Moffat’s convoluted attempts at storylines. I’m sick of everyone calling Emperor’s New Clothes, shouting ‘it’s just CLEVER’ because they’re afraid of looking stupid. Every single episode reeks of a man desperately scrabbling to tie up the ends of strings he didn’t even know he had. Doctor Who has become a desperate, floundering, insubstantial mess of bullshit. This established sci-fi staple has lost ANY sense of internal physics. For science-fiction or fantasy to work there need to be RULES. A sense of a science, a set of boundaries that appear logical within the confines of the fictitious universe. Doctor Who has none. 

There isn’t any science-fiction anymore. Just a lot of pseudo-philosophical mumbo-jumbo, women being born to save the brilliant man (or existing as echos, wombs, shadows), killing off beloved characters only to revive them with a gadget, and HOURS upon HOURS of hints and tantalisation that DOESN’T EVEN PAY OFF.

It’s like foreplay without the orgasm. Really painful, dry-fingered foreplay.This show is the British equivalent of Lost. Except Lost didn’t shit over a national institution.

you walk through the door after a long day at work. your feet hurt, you’re sweating, and you smell something amazing. could it be that dinner is waiting? your mouth waters. it’s a tantalising scent. truly delicious. you know it would hit the spot in just the right way. it’s your dream food, you’ve been craving it for hours. the thought of it has got you through work.

you follow the scent, through the door, down the corridor, down the stairs, turn left, down the corridor, up the stairs, through a door, turn around, go back the way you came, get lost, always following the scent, into the cellar, through a window, down a spiral staircase, through a trap door, into the conservatory, secret stairs to the kitchen…. you’re there.

you walk over to the counter.

the delicious smell is emanating from a turd curled up on a plate.

this is what it’s like to watch doctor who.

the-vashta-nerada:

it is the 50th anniversary. clara asks the doctor why he chose the name “the doctor”.

john hurt appears out of nowhere and says “the wand chooses the wizard, mr. potter. it’s not always clear why” and turns into the great dragon and flies away

the screen turns black

that’s the episode

this would make more sense than any actuality moffat could diarrhea all over my screen

(via freyjas)