Green Wing: Not Impressed

[skjaere]

I wasn't planning to write a review of Green Wing, but it seems I am not going to be able to sleep until I do. First, let me start by saying this is a weird show. I have no problem with weird. There were a lot of things I enjoyed -- enough to keep me watching through almost 20 hours of television in the hope of a satisfying resolution -- but there

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[elenbarathi]

Ack, this is me not even clicking on your cut there, because this is not a good morning for me to even read about that shit. I have a hard limit about watching any depictions of sexual assault; I ask people specifically "Is there a rape in it?" when they recommend movies - was ever so furious with a friend who told me Rob Roy was "not that bad." Oh yes it was, and while I won't necessarily boycott a movie with sexual violence, I want to know when is a good time to slip out to the powder room or go get more beer or whatever.

It's not that watching that shit makes me feel fearful and traumatized - I react the other direction, with craving to Hulk out and go smash those evildoers against a building like rats in a sack; the Berserkr blood of my ancestry starts howling for vengeance. This is not consonant with my intention to live a life of peace, and not practical anyway, since I'm an overweight middle-aged lady, not Conan the Barbarian, so I try to avoid going there.

I just watched Blade Runner the other night, and was noticing again how Decker the Blade Runner basically raped Rachel the Replicant - her compliance being the test of her 'personhood, because if she'd resisted, he'd have 'retired' her. That whole movie has an ironic sub-text about cultural assumptions about male/female, human/non-human, but I think I'd never really noticed the not-really-consensual 'love' scene because I tend to give the 'kissing parts' a miss a lot of the time even if they're entirely consensual: meh.

Anyway, if this show you speak of is treating sexual assault as a joke, its producers better dig themselves a bunker before the nuclear shit-storm strikes, because that is just Beyond The Pale.

[skjaere]

I have a feeling that the writers only thought it was "funny" in this case because it was a woman assaulting a man. But no. Still not funny. Really not. The show aired from 2004-2006, and I can find no evidence of a negative reaction among the fans, which is just as depressing as the original "joke".

[elenbarathi]

Ah, seven years ago: that makes it 'old news' these days.

Television pretty-much always sucks, and the parts of it that don't suck will be available on DVD soon enough, so there's really not much need to even have it, One can write to producers and sponsors to complain, and organize others to do the same, or one can turn the thing off and find something more satisfying to do.