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[tablesaw]

ktempest pretty much sums up the Ojousaw household's reaction to the season premiere of Heroes. Keep an eye out for crazy race wank in the comments that got started by response number 1:

I was really distracted from the righteous anger depicted by all the instances of “white”, “brown”, “black”, etc, used to describe the characters.

Because acknowledging race doesn't just harsh fandom's squee, it also harshes fandom's harsh.

Similarly, Tami sums up our reaction to True Blood. And just to be clear, Tara > Sookie; Martha > Rose; and Uhura > everybody.

In case you're someone who doesn't see race, meet extraordinary comedian Heather Campbell, who doesn't see face.

Las Vegas in two days. Totally not ready.

Comments

[queen-elvis.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I deleted Heroes off the DVR because I thought it was a "pre-show" show where the actors talk about how great the show is, not an actual show. Sounds like I shouldn't make much of an effort to tape it again.

Frankly, I think my interest waned when they got rid of Hana Gitelman and made Niki's character weak and indecisive.

[tablesaw]

The pre-show preceded a show-show.

The DVR doesn't take much effort, so I'll keep recording it for a while, probably. I just don't know how much effort I'll make to watch it.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Wait, did you just say "Martha > Rose"? The hell?

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Word

[ojouchan.livejournal.com]

Oh my lovelies.

...For a moment you must have been confused. It's understandable. You must have thought that Rose was somehow smarter, funnier, or perhaps even more interesting than Martha. It's okay. This happens a lot in Dr. Who. Then they watch the episode where Martha braves the racist early 1900's and lowers herself to a chambermaid in order to save the Dr., or the episode where she saves all of humanity by giving up years of her life to WALK around the earth spreading belief in hope and the Dr.

:) I'm just saying.

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Martha<>Rose could be equitable resolution...

[kimberkit.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think a more generally true statement about Heroes is that *none* of their main characters ever dies, not really that "it's only the minorities who die." It's totally fair to complain that there are more white people than minorities in *general* in the show, though.