The rest of you might already have seen them, but in case you, like me, haven't: there are two shiny new promos for season two of The Sarah Connor Chronicles out there:
here and
here. I'm so looking forward to it, and pleased that the promo puts such a strong focus on the female character (I liked Derek Reese as much as the next fangirl, but I
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I felt very sorry for both her and the original complainant. For the writer, because the internet came crashing down on her head after she had Gene use the same word - "Paki" - that he used canonically in 2.6, and which anyone who lived through 1973 would know is exactly the word Gene and his like would have used, however nasty we find it now (and indeed did then).
And for the complainant, because she had convinced herself that Gene did not speak the word in canon - she said something like "I was so relieved that Gene didn't use it when Ray did, because he could not have been a hero if he did" - so, when it was pointed out that Gene said it twice to Ray's once, her illusions about her hero were presumably shattered.
So it seemed to me that she'd fallen into the opposite error from the media pundits you mention who think Life on Mars is about "wasn't it great back then before political correctness"; that of assuming that Gene is a straightforward Good Guy with a few little foibles which can be explained away, rather than a fascinating mess of good and bad. (Even in that episode, Gene knows the term is offensive, because he uses the exaggeratedly polite phrase "our Pakistani brethren" when talking to Sam, clearly to wind him up by reminding him of what he'd usually say.)
And this is why I was angry when Morgan said "the tumour [ie Gene] was benign", and by the scene in the last episode of Ashes to Ashes which had Alex joining the applause for Gene's diatribe against Scarman. Those were the only times I felt the writers of the show had fallen into the trap of endorsing Gene wholesale, though I understand you feel they did it more often.
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