So does Proud Boys.

It’s funny, because this is really a failure of english, but I thought the they/them thing was because Adira has multiple personalities running around inside her, not a gender thing. They’ve established that she has a different relationship to her previous lives compared to a normal Trill.  A normal Trill in a sense…

Counterpoint: From “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” to “The Outcast”, Star Trek has a long tradition of being exceedingly clumsy when it comes to challenging contemporary mores. Sure, they put Uhura on the bridge, but she could only kiss a white guy if they were being mind-controlled (and even then Shatner had to…

“They” is a perfectly useful pronoun. People seem to think that “he” and “she” are actually any better. Consider this sentence:

I think it was supposed to be this moment of “look how far we’ve come” acceptance, but it felt an awful lot like “really? We’re still hung up on this?”

It’s a TV show for the present day, regardless of when it’s set. And navigating non-obvious gender choices is *always* going to require tactful communication, people aren’t psychics who automatically know exactly the right thing to say in all situations without being told.

What they really should’ve done was make it a translation error. We can assume that the language has changed a lot in almost a millennium. And when they talk with future people that’s really universal translators at work. Less then half of languages on Earth has grammatical genders and English only uses it for third…

This. And we won’t have worked out a useful set of pronouns in 1000 years? And no, it won’t be “they”, which in this particular context was very confusing given the whole Trill multiple memory thing.

Have you rewatched The Outcast recently? It’s actually packed with casual sexism and gendered assumptions that would have no place in Star Trek today, let alone 300 years from now

It is currently becoming standard procedure (at least in my workplace) to declare your preferred gender pronouns as part of your name and title. We now are beginning to see the emergence of gender-nonbinary behavior as a humanoid developmental phenomenon. Any developmental behavior that emerges has to emerge at a…

That was the greatness of Star Trek. Show, don’t tell. By encountering a race of aliens who (ab)use a non-binary person, we think about our non-binary compatriots. By considering the personhood of an android, or a hologram, we think about the oppressed minorities around us. Subtlety, narration, situational drama…

I’d give them some slack here because they have to introduce the character not only internally but to viewers. Broad recognition of trans and non-binary people is still relatively new and I think the Trek writers can be excused for not being able to discern a perfectly smooth way to introduce a character. Hell, I’ve…

it’s clear that the language is in transition as we all figure out how to manage these kinds of situations. we’ll get it all figured out in about 50 years or so, maybe less.

It’s a common contraction among LGBT+ who use two sets of pronouns to just contract it down to one. So Elliot using he/they means that you can either use he/him or they/them and he’ll be cool with it either way.

I’m super happy for Elliot, but, seeing that I am an asshole, I’m going to vent a bit: I hate that he says that the pronouns are he/they. I’m guessing that he means that he is happy to go by he or they, and this is perfectly fine. My pedantic, nonsense complaint is that the tradition is that people identify as he/him,…

Ian McKellen said it well, as you’d expect him to <3

Technically, Into the Spiderverse is already the start of the Spider-verse; If they could jump back to OG 70's Spider animated, they could totally jump to Tobey/Andrew/Tom Spidey world. There’s also that Madame Web movie they’re trying to make.

Or, you know, be canon to the character. Ultimate Electro, which he was based on, is blue. Jfc not everything is a race issue.

My guess is that Falcon/WS has major plot elements that follow Black Widow, hence the complete radio silence.

As I understand it WandaVision finished filming first because it has less locations but was slated later due to being VFX heavy. But since pandemic meant FaWS had to stop shooting and VFX people didn’t have too many other things to work on we get WandaVision first.