It's funny you use that specific turn of phrase. A deleted scene from Jurassic World features a big dung hill like the one that Ellie stuck her gloved hands into in Jurassic Park. In Jurassic World, BDH sexily slathers herself in dung. I wish I was making this up.

She's with Chris Pratt and he seems to carry around a knife to cut oil lines. Should be easy enough to saw off heels.

In the comic books, I thought the first Sparks Nevada storyline was unnecessarily convoluted, ending with one of my least favorite tropes. The 2 Beyond Belief comics, on the other hand, are very good and I can't wait to see where the story goes next.

Good point. But do you think that accuracy was on their minds when they made their casting choices?

And maybe some unknown Korean woman would fit the role just as well as some unknown white woman but never got the chance. How would we ever know if they didn't even try? Is it really that much more difficult to cast for that when they got every detail as close to Andy Weir's vision as they did with everyone else? Is…

He has commented on it but he did not object. What can I say? Different people have different limits. I was more invested because I'm East Asian and yet, there's certainly other East Asians who weren't as bothered as I am.

Well, I'm going to copy and paste an argument I made much further down but this is why I think its perfectly fair to call Mindy Park's treatment whitewashing:

I would never have guessed that Rich Purnell was black because it's not mentioned in the book and there are no indicators of his ethnicity. However, Andy Weir is on record saying he imagined Rich as black and in the movie, he got cast as Donald Glover. And may I point out that it's not just Rich and Mindy that gets no…

We're Asians, man. We wouldn't get a grade B in whining. Brings shame on the family.

I made some comments downthread explaining why I don't think that argument holds. So as to not keep spamming, I'll post the link to the comment: https://disqus.com/home/dis…

I can't speak for MANAA but I'd like to think I pick my battles fairly carefully. I'm pretty forgiving of Hollywood casting that takes out Asians. So for example, Edge of Tomorrow turned a Japanese guy into Tom Cruise. Don't care. The adaptation changed location and narrative profoundly in addition to ehnicity, so it…

For reasons that I've covered upthread, I actually think this movie is a pretty good battle to pick.

Are you sure it's not Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaann?

Sign is read aloud. Cut to person who goes around reading signs for Edutainment.

I view it differently. I knew that the role was a token minor role that any unknown would be likely to pull off. So I was sad that they picked the unknown white woman over the unknown Korean woman when the movie already had 3 other fairly well known white actresses already.

I'm going to copy and paste some stuff I wrote upthread:

Thanks man. I went through all these questions too because I really really wanted to be able to defend the casting decisions but the evidence just didn't line up. Stay cool, you.

Unfortunately, no. Perhaps that is what they did and they didn't work closely with Andy Weir, but it is curious that they somehow managed to guess that Rich Purnell was black. He's not described as such in the book and I don't know how the casting directors got to be so psychic, given their otherwise "white as…

Yup!

Cos I'm an East Asian woman scientist and I loved the book and I loved the character, there's already 7 white characters in the book who made it to the movie, and I didn't get why a Korean woman could be so summarily dismissed for no good reason. It felt like I was being summarily dismissed for no good reason. No…