14 DAY TRIAL // Now that “Star Trek Into Darkness” is out in most territories, after the initial hype fans and non-fans are rushing to pick it apart. One of the biggest complaints with the film (my own too) was the way the Carol Marcus character was treated.
At one point in the film (hinted in the trailer above past the 1:30 mark), Marcus (Alice Eve) is shown in her underwear, in what is probably one of the most gratuitous scenes of recent years outside a Michael Bay movie.
Damon Lindelof, one of the writers on “Into Darkness,” is sorry.
“I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed actress,” he says on Twitter.
“We also had Kirk shirtless in underpants in both movies. Do not want to make light of something that some construe as mysogenistic. What I'm saying is I hear you, I take responsibility and will be more mindful in the future,” he adds.
Funny how he didn’t realize that the scene was “mysogenistic” until online uproar reached his ears.