TV Universes
I've watched a lot of tv when my eyes or brain couldn't do reading, and it's amused me to notice the unexamined assumptions of various worlds. Like the comic book world, as adapted to film. I thought ARROW was pretty good, despite some predictable elements (of course the sister is going to total her new car seconds after taking off for a drug-high joy ride), but there are also the comic world expectations... like of course if your dad is a powerful, wealthy man who made his cash as a gangster, you are perfectly justified in donning a costume and going around as a serial-killer vigilante.
I really like the characters (Dig, Felicite, and Quinn the most) and look forward to more of it.
Then there are sixties shows. I wonder if they feel alien to young viewers. To me, the sixties world settles around me as familiar as an old pair of jeans I'd forgotten for forty years--the shape is slightly off from mine, but a bend, a stretch, and I can be that person again for a little while. All the credits are male, the characters are all white males (except for those who serve, on for a few seconds to polish shoes or cook food or sweep, or as villains), the females all fall in love and change their lives after a single stern glance from the male leads. They need rescuing, etc, etc--we know all that, but seeing stories that assume everyone knows these things, it's amusing.
I really like the characters (Dig, Felicite, and Quinn the most) and look forward to more of it.
Then there are sixties shows. I wonder if they feel alien to young viewers. To me, the sixties world settles around me as familiar as an old pair of jeans I'd forgotten for forty years--the shape is slightly off from mine, but a bend, a stretch, and I can be that person again for a little while. All the credits are male, the characters are all white males (except for those who serve, on for a few seconds to polish shoes or cook food or sweep, or as villains), the females all fall in love and change their lives after a single stern glance from the male leads. They need rescuing, etc, etc--we know all that, but seeing stories that assume everyone knows these things, it's amusing.