[ SECRET POST #2858 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2858 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Mariana's Trench]


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[Ace Attorney]


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[Star Wars: The Old Republic]


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[Scorpion]


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[Sakana]


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Notes:

Late work day again, sorry.

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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

Wasn't the original Uhura sort of boring, too, in modern day perspective? As a Character, that is - Nichelle Nichols does seem to have a bit more spirit than Saldana, but honestly that might be the age.

What was groundbreaking about Uhura was that she was a black woman being a competent member of a Starship crew - the problem is, if you try to transpose that to a modern day setting, you need to do a bit more with the character.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, she didn't have a lot to do - Nichols almost quit the show because she didn't have enough to do, but Martin Luther King actually convinced her to stay on for representation's sake. However, she definitely had a lot more personality per line and per minute of screentime.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not just Uhura's limited role. Uhura might not always have had much to do in TOS, but Nichelle Nichols brought so much charisma and magic to the character. People aren't just her fans because she was a black woman. It was that and the fact that she was amazing.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Nichelle took every line she had and made it work beyond what it should have. And although she had few really meaty moments, the ones she did were very memorable -- Mirror, Mirror anyone?

Saldana's Uhura suffers because she's just so generic and could basically be exchanged for any "strong" girlfriend under the sun.

[(Anonymous)]

original Uhura was in the background and the token poc, just like Sulu.
The more I read people complaining about new Uhura, the more I get the feeling new Uhura is hated so much because she's not the token black woman and background character that Nichelle Nichols played.

Those replying that Nichelle just made the poor character development and obviously limited writing better 'because of reasons' seem disingenuous to me.
Zoe Saldana gets way more to do and resembles the main female character that tos never had. While Nichols was a good actress, neither of them are oscar worthy (not that the other actors were) but Zoe Saldana's often praised by critics and directors alike for being emotionally available to co stars and a good actress. She's the cast member that is part of a minority in hollywood and yet, she's the only one among them that has, almost, a A list status.
Not trying to say she's the best, just not the terrible actress that the K/S sockpuppets anons here try to make her out to be. She isn't half bad and generally speaking, her Uhura is considered by unbiased critics an improvement compared to the old one.