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fandomsecrets2015-01-28 10:53 pm
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(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 10:51 am (UTC)(link)General fans don't give a damn for the most part, it's the shippers or fanboys with sexist agenda that are the most vocal.
That ship is actually more popular and well accepted among the non shippers trek fans than people make it seems that they are and they generally got a positive reaction from critics and even their original actors loved it.
For all the problems the reboot can have, uhura and spock being in love is the last thing trek fans care about and the most asinine reason one can complain about (as if this is the first movie with a romance! Duh!). Besides, trek fans who read the books remember that s/u is something that tptb admitted trying to set up in the series too.
It's not like putting Carol with Bones, which is a ship I see K/S pushing to becone canon in the reboot in spite of the fact that her canon relationship is with kirk and they had a son.
Tl;dr: the canon excuse is bullshit because it's the shippers who have issues here and since when shippers care about canon?
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(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)Bullshit. They were saying it's hated because it wasn't canon and is now. Unless you're saying the giant shipwar existed back in pre-reboot TOS fandom, when they were both equally non canon?
(If it actually did I retract my comment, but I'm pretty sure that's not true.)
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(Anonymous) 2015-01-29 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)Why would the existence or lack thereof of a giant shipwar in re-reboot TOS fandom matter here? Slashers will hate on women for getting in the way whether they're just a potential love interest or whether they're in a canonical relationship with one half of the OTP. This is an extremely common and well-documented phenomenon.
Many of Uhura's most vocal haters would absolutely not be so vocal or haterly towards her if the non-canonical relationship in the reboot hadn't involved Uhura + one half of their OTP.
Further, your hair-splitting distinction between "not canon" and "wasn't canon and is now" is so... hair-splitting. You're naive if you think that the most vocal of S/U haters are simply against it because the ship is non-canon or shoehorned in. And as ayrt pointed out, S/U was something that they hinted at and wanted to make happen in the original series but couldn't do because racism, and Nimoy and Nichols have both reacted positively to S/U.
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Yeah, ship wars and kranks take up disproportionate bandwidth. Most of us don't care and have moved on to wondering how Abrams is going to ruin Star Wars.