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I didn't like Bones in ST:XI because we're supposed to take him seriously, but he was incompetent and only useful to the plot ONCE. Erase him from the movie after he gets Kirk aboard the Enterprise and nothing is lost. He does have a distinct personality (grumpy!).

I loved Darcy Lewis in Thor despite her uselessness to the plot because I think she is ESSENTIAL to the tone of the movie. Thor is a ridiculous concept for a modern-day superhero. You have to embrace the ridiculousness as much as you can, and that's why Darcy is there. (I basically agree with this review on the embracing the absurdity front.) And you can't just pass on her lines to other characters and erase her because the other characters are supposed to be taken more seriously. She's an effective, distinct comif relief. Doesn't get in the way. Is self-aware enough that she knows she doesn't have much to contribute to the solving of the Thor mystery - not the case with McCoy in ST: XI, ftr, which is why I just cannot with him.

Moira in XMFC: useful more than once, can't be erased. But I DON'T KNOW WHO SHE IS. There's nothing there enough to like or dislike. They gave the one line that would connect her to the emotional core of the movie to Oliver Platt. ("These are good, hard working people.") They failed Rose Byrne in so many ways.

Jesus Christ, it's taking forever. I'll go through a whole bottle before this finishes.

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so much truth. I loved Darcy. Moira, I loved her potential (her first scene is neat), but she never really crystallised in the movie :/

It felt like she never really mattered. As if she mattered less than the likes of Angel, who had fewer lines. Because she was never integrated. She was tagging along the mutants, ok, so one would assume she supported their cause ("You think they're all like Moira"), but... it's vague.

I was rambling - still am - because I spent a lot of time after I first watched ST:XI trying to work out what kind of secondary characters work best for me in action flicks, and ~USEFULNESS TO THE PLOT~ seemed to be the thing. Now I'm reevaluating.