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[thatseanguy]

Am I the only one who liked Garret, the wheelchair-bound ghostbuster

Comments

[smiko]

I think the idea of THERE SHOULD BE A CHARACTER IN A WHEELCHAIR TO MAKE THIS MORE POLITICALLY CORRECT is a bit silly, but the character of Garret himself was fine. He was the jock.

I mean I liked Roland best, but.

[thatseanguy]

Roland was pretty cool. I liked that one episode where the GBs all thought his rag was the piece of art he was working on, and liked it better than his invention.

[sewa]

well it's action adventure about ghosts so it should be farfetched

Nobody complains about Joe from Family Guy

[theantitexan]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

[unclejam]

I think the main problem with handicapped people in adventure stories is that they're handicapped, so to speak. Which sounds racist as hell and isn't meant, in my view at least, to say that they're in any way less people.

But, if you're in a wheelchair, the treacherous environs of the muddy Amazon? Kind of hard for you to work with.

This is easily evaded in near-future or far-future stories, where disability is either a trivial tidbit ("Oh, Jimmy's organically paralyzed but he has a nerve bypass, but it breaks if he gets hit by lightning") or actually powers him up ("Jimmy was born with no legs, but that means he has cyborg legs!")

Now that I've pissed away my good Democrat points, I'll say that putting a guy in a wheelchair in an urban environment is probably a pretty good take on it. If I was writing adventure and wanted to include a handicapped person, though, I'd hit an arm or an eye rather than the legs. Legs mean you're gonna be the guy left behind when it's time to run.

[kainrocket]

Psst being disabled doesn't hand you a new race type. But yeah, I saw a little of this cartoon and thought that guy was cool.

[unclejam]

It doesn't?!?!

Well fuck, there goes MY racist geotheology.

AFK, racism is hard

[thatseanguy]

You'll get it, man. Just keep trying.