>And there's criticism of Noomi Rapace's character having an accent! I don't even think she was trying not to have one. I think she's just playing a character from Sweden. What in her characterization precludes that? For fuck's sake, people, Patrick Stewart played a Frenchman with an English accent on Star Trek, anyone have a problem there?
Well, there's the minor fact that as a child, she clearly has a British accent.
...While she and her dad are clearly traveling around the world, which means she could've spent an unknown amount of time in Sweden.
>Maybe it's that the movie has a light theist bent, which amounts to one character expressing Christian beliefs and the movie not explicitly endorsing or contradicting her faith.
As a Christian, I'm more concerned with trying to reconcile "devout Christian" with "in a relationship where she has premarital sex".
>. It would really disappoint me if that were the deal-breaker for geeks. I thought science fiction was about having an open mind and considering alternate viewpoints.
Scientists are generally portrayed as at odds with religious beliefs, especially creationism, even in real life. Once again, geeks demand something original, then complain when they get it and they don't like it.
>That doesn't cover Amazing Spider-Man, by the way. That shit won't stand.
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Date: 2012-06-15 08:47 pm (UTC)Well, there's the minor fact that as a child, she clearly has a British accent.
...While she and her dad are clearly traveling around the world, which means she could've spent an unknown amount of time in Sweden.
>Maybe it's that the movie has a light theist bent, which amounts to one character expressing Christian beliefs and the movie not explicitly endorsing or contradicting her faith.
As a Christian, I'm more concerned with trying to reconcile "devout Christian" with "in a relationship where she has premarital sex".
>. It would really disappoint me if that were the deal-breaker for geeks. I thought science fiction was about having an open mind and considering alternate viewpoints.
Scientists are generally portrayed as at odds with religious beliefs, especially creationism, even in real life. Once again, geeks demand something original, then complain when they get it and they don't like it.
>That doesn't cover Amazing Spider-Man, by the way. That shit won't stand.
Case in point.