Personally, I haven't seen much, and continue to be the outlier in terms of liking Star Trek Into Darkness.

Also, I'll through Desolation out there since I will be seeing that and am anticipating good things

The role was originally going to be played by Benicio del Toro, but he left the project. So it's not like they didn't try to get the character's ethnicity right initially. But Cumberbatch was flavor-of-the-month, and they wanted to get some hype from his rise to stardom.

Unfortunately, none of his films this year were well-received, so he didn't become as big a deal as people thought he would.

If Into Darkness is anything, it's sexist. Frankly it's insulting for a series that pioneered equality and was a step forward in gender roles to take a character that was a brilliant anti-war scientist and make her do a gratuitous Michael Bay style stripping scene, while contributing nothing to the story. And all Uhura cares about now is her relationship problems.

Argh, lets get off this and stop talking about Star Trek, we're just going to derail the thread with bitching