...Because the RaceFail09 discusssion is for everyone

[slashpine]

OK, breaking a long LJ silence, the reasons for which I won't go into. I'll blame credit bethbethbeth for making me think about those reasons. Not that she asked, or should care. *g* It was just something that came up in the course of another conversation - the reasons I prefer to be on IJ, when I'm online these days at all. Such a pesky nuisance, RL

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[ellid]

That's dreadful. And what is up with "Michelle"? Can't they stand the thought that we have a beautiful, intelligent, accomplished fashionista in the White House with that name?

Even worse: did you see the finale of Battlestar Galactica? Talk about cultural/racial/species appropriation....

[slashpine]

Calling her Michelle is kind of amazing fail, isn't it? Reminds me of that company that made the horribly unappealing Sasha and Malia dolls then claimed it was not about the Obamas... and then pulled them from the market. I don't think it can have raised their sales, so it was dumb all around.

BSG - I'm looking forward to reading about this. So far, fans don't seem very impressed with the ending on the whole, much less its final word on cultural/racial/species issues. I will confess to a bit of schadenfreude: I was at my favorite regional pop culture conference last month and very much looking forward to a good mix of fandom papers. Instead it was like nonstop uber-pretentious BSG analysis. (Well, along with the uber-pretentious Buffy analysis. Which seems eternal.)

I did read with interest today's New York Times article on its conclusion: "Show About the Universe Raises Questions on Earth". The writer seemed to me to be struggling to comprehend - much less explain - the myriad readings on and reactions to the series. But

[ellid]

In a nutshell, this is what pissed me off about the way BSG ended

[ellid]

Correction: I almost forgot that the original Boomer was a black man. My bad.

[slashpine]

!*%&(@#*!!!

Your case is solid. All three of those are appalling - and OMG obvious - backward slidingness. Ugh. I enjoyed the first couple seasons of BSG on disk, courtesy of my elder sister, but now I suspect I know why she lost interest in the show and never bought or TIVO'd more seasons.

It really is sad to think that ST:TOS did a better job forty years ago than most sf/f shows (and many novelists) do now! UGH. How can people have managed to just look past the point that ST made, and in such an overly obvious way at that?

I'm going to pin it on BSG writers who were not very broadly educated or thoughtful, and unable to come up with anything more than retread tropes and stereotypes. After all, TV can't keep blaming their race, gender, sexuality, religion, class, etc. fail on the audience forever.

(OTOH, I saw a screenshot of the new ST movie bridge? And it looked like overdone gaudiness. With miniskirts on women. Ugh.)

[ellid]

(OTOH, I saw a screenshot of the new ST movie bridge? And it looked like overdone gaudiness. With miniskirts on women. Ugh.)

I also object to Kirk being taller than Spock, McCoy being played by an Australian, and Uhura being taller than almost any of them. Not to mention it looks like they're mucking about with time travel AGAIN. Harlan Ellison really needs to sue them (again).

[slashpine]

Ahahaha! Yes on Ellison. Yes on boring OMG not again time travel - what a deus ex machina excuse that is for not generating internal, character-related conflict! And Kirk. *weeps* I liked Shatner's pugnacious shortness!

Hey - there will be *much* fandom discussion of this remake, I guess!