#the audacity of this bitch
all the lonely people readers reuniting to kick james’ ass
I have been trying to wait until the full season is out before going into my criticisms for SNW but I just have to say. Why on earth does SNW Spock have so much sex. Why is sex brought up so much around him. No other character deals with sex as much as him other than I guess Pike, but even then. It is so wildly out of character for TOS Spock I’m not even sure how to react, really. I can only interpret this as a desperate, painfully obvious attempt to assert that Spock is heterosexual.
“He could be bi!” He absolutely could. That would be absolutely incredible and would knock my socks clean off. But do we honestly think that is the intention of the writers here? Especially when there has been nothing to indicate that he likes men at all? He is being repeatedly hypersexualised, and only with women. Unfortunately I don’t sense good, inclusive intentions here. Particularly when they seem to have no issues establishing Chapel as bi.
The truth of the matter is that Spock is such an iconic character that the franchise will absolutely never let him be LGBT in any way. But that didn’t mean that they had to go this far to try and cover up and spit in the face of what so many gay people see in him. And yet asserting that Spock is a squeaky clean straight was so important to these writers that they deliberately disregarded TOS canon surrounding T’Pring and Spock as a person to do so, despite claiming that SNW is some kind of love letter to TOS. SNW Spock makes it clear that it isn’t.
I very much agree with you. I can understand not making Spirk canon, because they need to sell their star trek, and we know the fans who think star trek is “too political nowdays” and who would react with homophobia to iconic characters like kirk and spock being made queer are still a huge part of the fanbase.
But why couldn’t they keep Spock’s writing regarding his sexuality as ambiguous as it was in TOS? Like, it really doesn’t feel like the same character. They’re deliberately making spock way more sexual and attracted to women than he ever even remotely was in TOS. And I have to wonder just how much of that is due to the character’s history with the queer community.
Just how much of that is them taking a character perceived as gay by the queer community and making him as explicitly straight as possible, with lots of sex and a love interest, because how dare gay people be associated to anything?
