There is a scene in Star Trek Into Darkness (this isn’t really a spoiler, BTW) in which Alice Eve, for no good reason, strips down to her underwear. It’s a particularly glaring bit of male gaze that stands out a mile in the movie as being incredibly gratuitous. Okay, Kirk does take his top off as well… but it’s when he’s in bed with two alien women, and this is in a movie where women get to do surprisingly little and with few very in positions of power.
Writer Damon Lindelof has already apologised on Twitter…
…but JJ Abrams has just been on Conan O’Brien’s show and tried to apologise, too. He also tried to make up for it a little by bringing along a deleted scene of Benedict Cumberbatch in the shower.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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