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netgirl_y2k) wrote2023-07-14 05:59 pm
netgirl_y2k) wrote2023-07-14 05:59 pm
Strange New Worlds; or, I regret to inform you that the straight people are at it again
I like almost everything about Strange New Worlds with the exception of the Chapel/Spock/T'Pring love triangle, which just chews up lots of screen time that could be better used on literally anything else, and feels like it's only there because her having a crush on Spock is the only thing anyone remembers about TOS Nurse Chapel.
I just don't care about Spock's love life, I never have, I was bored by Spock/Uhura in the kelvin movies, and will probably be indifferent when the Star Trek remake of 2064 makes Spock/Kirk canon. That said, I liked Spock's relationship with T'Pring well enough. T'Pring is a stone cold fox, more patient than Spock probably deserves, and did I mention the stone cold fox thing. More importantly the two actors have chemistry; even at their most Vulcan I absolutely believe that Spock and T'Pring are five seconds away from boning at all times.
And it's not like Ethan Peck and Jess Bush aren't great on the show, they both have great chemistry with other actors, they just don't have any with each other. It is the biggest failure of chemistry testing since Jon and Dany in the latter seasons of Game of Thrones.
There was a scene between Chapel and M'Benga in the S2 premier where their mouths are briefly close together and for a second it looked like they were going to kiss, and there was nothing in that episode or their prior relationship that implied that they were kissing type friends, but if they had I would have rolled with it because those actors have great chemistry. I have a hard time believing that Spock and Chapel want to kiss even when they actually are.
Speaking of, Spock having his tongue down Chapel's throat five minutes after he and T'Pring 'took a break' was...Like, Spock is not my favourite character and he is a lot of things, but he is not that flavour of dick.
It's not like SNW can't do romance well, with one episode Kirk/La'an (a ship I came fully prepared to to dislike) reduced me to the good kind of tears, where a season and a half of build up and Spock/Chapel has elicited naught more than a groan of '...who asked for this?'
And I know I've been sarky about how overwhelmingly straight SNW is, but this kind of half arsed, he was a boy, she was a girl shit is why.
I just don't care about Spock's love life, I never have, I was bored by Spock/Uhura in the kelvin movies, and will probably be indifferent when the Star Trek remake of 2064 makes Spock/Kirk canon. That said, I liked Spock's relationship with T'Pring well enough. T'Pring is a stone cold fox, more patient than Spock probably deserves, and did I mention the stone cold fox thing. More importantly the two actors have chemistry; even at their most Vulcan I absolutely believe that Spock and T'Pring are five seconds away from boning at all times.
And it's not like Ethan Peck and Jess Bush aren't great on the show, they both have great chemistry with other actors, they just don't have any with each other. It is the biggest failure of chemistry testing since Jon and Dany in the latter seasons of Game of Thrones.
There was a scene between Chapel and M'Benga in the S2 premier where their mouths are briefly close together and for a second it looked like they were going to kiss, and there was nothing in that episode or their prior relationship that implied that they were kissing type friends, but if they had I would have rolled with it because those actors have great chemistry. I have a hard time believing that Spock and Chapel want to kiss even when they actually are.
Speaking of, Spock having his tongue down Chapel's throat five minutes after he and T'Pring 'took a break' was...Like, Spock is not my favourite character and he is a lot of things, but he is not that flavour of dick.
It's not like SNW can't do romance well, with one episode Kirk/La'an (a ship I came fully prepared to to dislike) reduced me to the good kind of tears, where a season and a half of build up and Spock/Chapel has elicited naught more than a groan of '...who asked for this?'
And I know I've been sarky about how overwhelmingly straight SNW is, but this kind of half arsed, he was a boy, she was a girl shit is why.
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I think whether you see chemistry between actors can be subjective, but a perceived lack of chemistry can ruin even a well written romance, which this one isn't.
Ha, Ortegas was who came to mind when I was talking about characters who had more chemistry with Christine than Spock does.