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[beccaelizabeth]

I watched the Angel episode with the zombie cops
and now I kind of just want to cry
because how is zombie cops the escapist version?
Like, if it was one bad man with a zombie statue, well hey, fixed it.
But nope.

There's other stuff to say about it, like the tendency of TV to explain race stuff by being all 'but what if to a white man', and how it's Angel to the rescue because somehow it can't be black people or a woman even though they started investigating it, and how the writers epic inability to write Gunn in his own context turns into this thing where Gunn leaves his whole community behind just to sit in an office and have nothing to do...

this is pretty depressing, really.
but the big problem is
why, 14 years later, does this not look dated all to hell?

could racism just stop making sense?
like, the stories don't even make sense any more, stuff moves on and it's too weird to think of?

any time now...

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[kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't hold your breath :-(

Exhibit A: Stonewall
Exhibit B: Gods of Egypt

kerk