{"id":3584,"date":"2016-12-25T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Just-watched-Galaxy-Quest-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2016-12-25T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:01:44","slug":"just-watched-galaxy-quest-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/12\/25\/just-watched-galaxy-quest-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Just watched Galaxy Quest for the first time."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>Just watched Galaxy Quest for the first time. (Yes, I know. There are a lot of movies that &#8220;everyone&#8221; has seen that I haven&#8217;t seen. I&#8217;m not a big movie guy.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can see why people love it. Great actors, good script, the parody is affectionate and on point. On the other hand, <em>massive<\/em> feminism fail. And the guy with a Chinese name, playing a character with a Chinese name, was played by&#8230; Tony Shalhoub? Who did an amazing job, but why use Chinese names if you&#8217;re going to end up casting a Lebanese actor? (Yes, I spotted the &#8220;Kwan isn&#8217;t even my real name&#8221; joke. Hanging a lampshade on it doesn&#8217;t make it OK.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Star Trek is notable for its contribution to diversity and representation in popular culture. Galaxy Quest is notable for its failure to match this, with the one token woman with no arc who ends up with her clothes half torn off (played by <em>Sigourney freaking Weaver<\/em>, of all people), and the one token black guy with almost no arc and no real contribution to the plot. Who at least doesn&#8217;t die, I suppose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise, though, good film. <\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Just watched Galaxy Quest for the first time.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/12\/25\/just-watched-galaxy-quest-for-the-first-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}