After watching the trailers for Academy I generally liked what I saw, but Holly Hunter felt oddly reminiscent of Geneviève Bujold as Janeway. I even made a comment somewhere on here that was like “I need to be sold more on Holly Hunter”.

The marketing made her out to be a “barefoot bohemian who loves old books and records and lounges around the bridge” which honesyl did not appeal to me but I ended up absolutely loving it. She is somehow nailing being a Starfleet captain without falling back on any familiar tropes.

  • wirehead@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    I think that what makes the character fun is all of the combinations of different seemingly-incongruent elements and so I don’t think there’s a way to cut a trailer that shows all of the different parts in context.