Comments | lyssie: TV show producers and writers, can we talk?

lyssie

TV show producers and writers, can we talk?

Sep 26, 2011 22:37

Like, seriously. Would you stop killing characters of color, please? Because it's getting really annoying, not to mention disappointing.

Kill off some of the white characters, you certainly have enough of them, after all.

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greycoupon September 27 2011, 08:02:51 UTC

did you watch the show with the dinosaurs?

lyssie September 27 2011, 12:11:18 UTC

What, Primeval? Not recently, no. And to be fair to them, they manage to kill white dudes, too (possibly because there's lots of them)

asimaiyat September 27 2011, 13:06:17 UTC

No, there's a new show with dinosaurs. Terra Firma. I haven't seen it, though, so I can't report on any potential race issues.

lyssie September 27 2011, 23:00:33 UTC

Ahhh. I saw some thing for that, and thought it, ah, didn't look terribly interesting.

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roeskva September 27 2011, 09:23:48 UTC

Don't worry, they'll kill them off as soon as I pick one or more of them as my favourite character for whatever show. The TV show producers/writers always kills of my favourite characters, regardless of colour. *bitter*

But yeah, I've noticed they seem to have it in for characters of colour is many movies/tv shows. *shakes head sadly*

lyssie September 27 2011, 23:07:51 UTC

What's hilarious is that, it's not usually a 'favorite' character of mine (well, in the case of two of them, they were on my list), BUT, the fandom reaction of "thank god that useless, annoying bitch is dead" pretty much guarantees I'll end up loving them more.

I'm usually better at simply killing whole tv shows (Brisco, Eastwick, Chloe King... I'm waiting to find out my interest has killed, like, Leverage or something)

asimaiyat September 27 2011, 13:11:35 UTC

I was thinking the same thing last night. What shows were *you* watching?

lyssie September 27 2011, 23:04:53 UTC

Torchwood: MD, Haven, Spooks, and Nikita. Oh, and Doctor Who, now that I think about it.

miera_c September 27 2011, 21:50:19 UTC

Who died now?

lyssie September 27 2011, 23:10:02 UTC

Highlight for spoilers Whoops. My brain is not working so well. It was actually Tariq Masood. Zaf's been dead since series six of Spooks.

zahdahe September 28 2011, 18:29:59 UTC

sweetie! I've been watching this happen for over 4 decades. I just watch with a belief of sadness cos no matter how hard I wish it always happens. I'm just sad that way.