On another show I've watched, NUMB3RS, I spent some years watching Alimi Ballard invest his character, David Sinclair, with personality while the writers were simply writing him as Generic Black Guy #3. When the writers finally joined him in working to make David a fully rounded person, the change was palpable and obvious.
Anyway, I piped something not to defend the movie but to say that there are a bunch of us contemplating these very issues and doing things with these thoughts -- the response to it isn't only uncritical acceptance or disappointed revulsion. There are people who did enjoy it, but not uncritically, and are considering feminism and people of color and other issues of social justice in our responses to it.
(Also, LJ has been having delays in comment notifications. I've only gotten one of yours so far.)
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Date: 2011-03-03 08:18 pm (UTC)On another show I've watched, NUMB3RS, I spent some years watching Alimi Ballard invest his character, David Sinclair, with personality while the writers were simply writing him as Generic Black Guy #3. When the writers finally joined him in working to make David a fully rounded person, the change was palpable and obvious.
Anyway, I piped something not to defend the movie but to say that there are a bunch of us contemplating these very issues and doing things with these thoughts -- the response to it isn't only uncritical acceptance or disappointed revulsion. There are people who did enjoy it, but not uncritically, and are considering feminism and people of color and other issues of social justice in our responses to it.
(Also, LJ has been having delays in comment notifications. I've only gotten one of yours so far.)