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Midwatch report:
Yeah, in case anyone was wondering, Ireland neither looks nor sounds like that. And security guards here certainly don't look like beefy Americans from central casting. Also, since most of the Gardai don't carry guns, I have a hard time believing they let the rent-a-guards walk around armed but I'd need to double check (hey, I'm living in Ireland. How cool is that?).
Threequarterwatch report: In which I call bullshit on the reveal that Canadace/Michelle is actually a fat chick and, although we never see her face, I'm guessing we're supposed to believe that she was an ugly fat chick to boot. After all, who else would want to change their appearance or pretend to be someone else, right? Because we all know that fat girls a) hate themselves and b) are congenitally self-loathing and c) want to be someone else. Because no one else in the whole of the world would want to pretend they were someone else unless they were fat and, by default, unattractive (since it goes without saying fat=ugly). It's not like there's an entire industry in... oh, let's say the southwest coast of the United States based largely on attractive people pretending to be someone other than they are (and often attractive, deeply insecure people).
Thank you Heroes for reminding me, once again, that fat people are only useful as punchlines and object lessons. And fuck you, too.
That was cheap and lazy and borderline hateful writing. Strike one. Three strikes and you're out.
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laurashapiro's: she is the master, picking up on so many other awful racist and sexist stereotypes in this episode that I feel vaguely ashamed for not honing in on them too. Although, I suspect my new mantra of "I will not piss and moan about a white guy in Tokugawa Japan, I will not piss and moan about a white guy in Tokugawa Japan" may have distracted me from the giant WTF-ery of casting Sark in that role in the first place. My suspicion is that Kensei is the forefather of all the heroes, hence why he has to be a white guy and it's just simpler (except for the fact that, outside of Shogun repeats, I can't think of a white guy running around Tokugawa Japan a) at all or b) who wasn't Portugese) to make the common ancestor a white guy since we know they fucked around everywhere and pretend that we're not indulging a borderline Naziesque Aryan super-race fantasy. Assuming, that is, that my theory is correct (and at this point, I'm realy hoping it's not).
Yeah, in case anyone was wondering, Ireland neither looks nor sounds like that. And security guards here certainly don't look like beefy Americans from central casting. Also, since most of the Gardai don't carry guns, I have a hard time believing they let the rent-a-guards walk around armed but I'd need to double check (hey, I'm living in Ireland. How cool is that?).
Threequarterwatch report: In which I call bullshit on the reveal that Canadace/Michelle is actually a fat chick and, although we never see her face, I'm guessing we're supposed to believe that she was an ugly fat chick to boot. After all, who else would want to change their appearance or pretend to be someone else, right? Because we all know that fat girls a) hate themselves and b) are congenitally self-loathing and c) want to be someone else. Because no one else in the whole of the world would want to pretend they were someone else unless they were fat and, by default, unattractive (since it goes without saying fat=ugly). It's not like there's an entire industry in... oh, let's say the southwest coast of the United States based largely on attractive people pretending to be someone other than they are (and often attractive, deeply insecure people).
Thank you Heroes for reminding me, once again, that fat people are only useful as punchlines and object lessons. And fuck you, too.
That was cheap and lazy and borderline hateful writing. Strike one. Three strikes and you're out.
eta: My Heroes rantage so pales beside
laurashapiro's: she is the master, picking up on so many other awful racist and sexist stereotypes in this episode that I feel vaguely ashamed for not honing in on them too. Although, I suspect my new mantra of "I will not piss and moan about a white guy in Tokugawa Japan, I will not piss and moan about a white guy in Tokugawa Japan" may have distracted me from the giant WTF-ery of casting Sark in that role in the first place. My suspicion is that Kensei is the forefather of all the heroes, hence why he has to be a white guy and it's just simpler (except for the fact that, outside of Shogun repeats, I can't think of a white guy running around Tokugawa Japan a) at all or b) who wasn't Portugese) to make the common ancestor a white guy since we know they fucked around everywhere and pretend that we're not indulging a borderline Naziesque Aryan super-race fantasy. Assuming, that is, that my theory is correct (and at this point, I'm realy hoping it's not).