Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160713122023/@comment-53539-20160728073214

So my mother decided to take my bro, who is visiting, to the cinema tonight. The choice is "Star Trek Beyond" and "Ghostbusters".

As I said to my brother, we're not children anymore making Ghostbusters, even though we were fan in the 80s, odd. On the other hand, neither of us are fans, or ever have been, of Star Trek.

Plus, as I said to her, I don't see why there is a big deal with Sulu being gay... Its set in the distant future at a time when I figured that sexuality is going to be a redundant issue. And while its fine to make fuss because of today (like the gay characters coming up in Star Wars), I don't see it being that big of a deal anymore. Whenever the star Trek storyline, there is nothing that should be a big deal to the character from what I've learnt over the years. Its why the token asian, black and other nationalities that have cropped up within the series also aren't so much of an issue... Their in the future when black and white humans are irrelevant because aliens just see them as "human". So likewise, sexuality is also irrelevant for similar reasons, they will just see "human" not "straight" or "gay".

In short, its more of a big deal to those outside the film then those within the film and therefore I don't care.

Yeah, I had to tell my mother the character was now gay. She replied "I get why he is gay because of a certain actor, but even he didn't want the character to be known as". She likewise doesn't care as she is still going to see the film. Its a film to her and Sulu was an indifferent character to her. Its the same with me, except since Star Trek has never been big of a deal to me, I'm indifferent to the entire cast.

Its like people who try and get me to watch Harry Potter, Twilight or Steven Universe. I'll watch these things in time, but only when I want to. I'll give examples why;


 * The Harry Potter storyline has little interest since its basically a rewrite of "The Worst Witch" anyway with a role reversal of the storyline (witches instead of wizards and being a great wizard instead of a bad one). I'm not the slightest bit interested in the "school" bit of wizards or wizards, a I a in the "casting the magic" bit.  Wasn't when I read and watched the series of The Worst Witch, still not now.
 * Twilight... As a Vampire the Masquerade fan + player, you'd think I'd see it. As it stands, Vampires work better in some formats then others.  And Twilight doesn't work.  I tried to read the book and got fed up.
 * Steven Universe I plan to watch in 3 years time when the hype is gone and I can enjoy it without the fanboys.

And this is pretty much the examples of why I don't rush to see things. I mean I like How to Train your Dragon and have the CGI series on DVD, but I've left season 2 unwatched. I have the Silent Hill movie - unwatched. And despite no interest in Star Trek did pick up the last film... Unwatched. In fact I have 20 unwatched DVDs. I will watched them when I'm ready and their on my list. It ws 3 months before I watched the DVD of Green Latern.

So e and my bro (I'm going along because as I said, I used to like ghostbusters too), will be watching ghostbusters and she'll be watching Star Trek.