*Just a warning to all of my lovely readers out there. If I hear you whining about how hard it is being white, I will have to throttle down my desire to punch you repeatedly in the face. Alternately, I will just throttle you. Ditto with how tough straight people have it, how it isn't fair that all the good parking spaces have handicapped markers,
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But there's a ton of fat jokes, and I don't get that. The supporting cast is horrid (and uniformly thin), and I don't get that either. Which means now I'm watching the show *because* the two main characters are overweight, and that seems as crappy and cliched as watching other shows because the characters adhere to some other cultural standard.
Bah.
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As for watching because of some kind of cultural standard, though... I've got mixed feelings on that. Watching a supporting a show that has minority leads (and overweight counts as minority in Hollywood), I can see a lot of reasons why you would: to support the show so it leads to more, to see how that minority is being depicted, to finally see people who look like you being shown as the lead instead of the sidekick/source of amusement/love interest/convenient death to motivate the noble white guy...
Kind of a "it may not be good, but at least it's there" thing. I don't know. I shall have to PONDER THIS FURTHER.
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If nothing else, the fat jokes are a *huge* turnoff. I assume they're in there to give us an emotional tie to the lead characters and to make it "realistic", but when it's your best friend making the jokes it just comes off as lameass.
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And I love you, Nuance.
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