millerlite

I'm not questioning either his writing or directing credits, just the aspect at a Mete level of how the show came into conception, and how that rubbed me the wrong way as a person of color.

That ending scene this episode with the flashback to Cookie in jail ... struck me as amazingly poignant and very powerful. There are thousands of black women like Cookie in jail right now. If nothing else I hope at some level that this show helps to humanize the concept that, yes, a woman like Cookie who sold drugs, and went to jail, can still be a fully realized, flawed, and yet, deeply human being as well. That young black men can be named Hakeem, Jamal and Andre, and their lives still actual matter as well. ---------------------------------- ETA: I need to express my feelings about something regarding the behind the scene inception of this show. Something rubs me the wrong way about a show being created in part. So, Danny Strong, one of the co-creators, [ who's previous claim to fame prior to helping to write Hunger Games: Mockingjay, was as a minor reoccurring character on Buffy, and who had no prior real affiliation with Hip Hop Culture ] one day listening to a few rappers and deciding ... hmm, I think I now have enough insight to co-create an entire show around Hip Hop / somewhat stereotypical aspects of black culture. I accept the fact that behind the scenes, very little in Hollywood gets done without whites being involved at the executive level because of the disgraceful lack of any kind of real diversity at the executive levels, but somehow that knowledge of how certain aspects of this show came to being, rubs me the wrong way. And I know that Lee Daniels is also co-producer. That doesn't change anything about how I feel about this particular knowledge about how Danny Strong says he came up with certain aspects of the show. Lee Daniel goes on and on in the press about how he wanted the show to blow the lid off of homophobia in the black community [as if the black community is the only community that has homophobia.] Whatever the motivation for why this show being created [which I suspect, was to mock Hip Hop / and certain aspects of black culture, at a certain level ], I think that some of the more emotional aspects of the show had helped to elevate some of the more damning stereotypes.

I hate Daphne. I have never felt more like reaching through my TV and strangling a character, the way I felt like doing to Daphne while watching this episode. I downright hate her now. Regina says, we got to make sure that this guy doesn't know anything about the situation with Bay taking your place, and what does Daphne do the minute she's alone with Nacho? Tells him all their secrets, and leaves them all open to blackmail. WTF !!! It makes me question the writers. Are they deliberately trying to make us hate Daphne, or, as I am beginning to suspect, are they just so completely unaware of just how horrible and unlikeable they have written this character ? She creates all these chaotic situations, that pull in other people around her, then never gets to pay any consequences. It always ends for her with a hug and a smile. I just, literally cannot stand her anymore, and it's starting to ruin my enjoyment of the show. As for Emmet and Bay: Emmet is acting like an ass right now. First, with not even wanting Bay to talk about what happened to her, and then for getting mad at her when she finally explains what happened.What an asshole.

So ... Three years later, and the only one who seems to have really benefited from the reveal of the switch, and the blending of the families, seems to have been Daphne. Neither Kennish kid is in college; both seem to be on a path of aimlessnes; one of them has sacrificed her own future; and all any of the parents really seem to care about the most is their precious -- Daphne. The only person who seems to have really benefited from the whole revealing of the switch has been Daphne. I think the writers are over compensating in their desire to present Daphne as the girl who lives her life to the fullest, and manages to overcome -- Every. Single. Obstacale. -- All -- despite the fact that she's deaf. And it has ruined her as a character. I can't stand Daphne anymore. ~~~~~~~~~~ As far as what's coming next week : This is a foul thing to do to the character of Tank. Just ... wow. Nobody can win in this situation.

Oh ... Good God, no !!! Not The Kings. I watch that show despite how casually racist it is ... There's a certain white liberal casual racism to how race is dealt with on that show, that is just cringeworthy.

I get the impression that Goffman and Team feel like they are correcting the "mistake" that was made in Seaon 1 with all that "diversity" jazz... There's a perfectly great white actress and protagonist that should be the front and center character ... so why is the black actress/character the one getting all the focus, again? For people like Goffman, there is very little value to "diversity." So everything that I personally loved about Season 1, -- [ Abby, Abby & Jenny, Jenny, Irving, and most of all, the friendship and mutual respect between Abby and Ichcabob ] -- were reduced or put in the sideline. I hope all this talk about a new direction from FOX means that Goffman and his Team are gone for good.

I’ve always felt ambivalent about how the show’s writers have portrayed Liber8. In the beginning, I got the feeling that the writers were almost trying to give us the impression that we should be rooting for the corporate future that dead!Kiera came from. Liber8 were “the bad guys.” And I got the feeling that the writers genuinely started out wanting the audience to hate them - thus, portraying their movement as violent and presenting them as mass murders. In the meanwhile, on a IRL level, the show started at around the same time that the whole Occupy Wall Street movement had started to make people aware of how out of control the inequality of the 1% {including multi-national corporations} vs. everyone else - had gotten. So, by making a movement with a message that would resonant with a good bit of the audience - and then making that movement violent and portrayed as “bad”- I never fully understood what the message the writers were sending the audience by making Liber8 as “the bad guys,” the way I got the impression the writer’s initially wanted us to. Then, one day, I get the feeling that the writers must have taken a step back, and realized how badly they were messing up the narrative as to who, we, the audience were supposed to be rooting for, and realized how off track they had gotten. Which then explains the way we have been getting the set-up for the entire reset of the show this season. And, I’ll be honest, at times this season, I’ve felt that the show had lost its way. But, with this finale, I feel like things are back on track.. We now have some game changing events that set up for some interesting events happening next season.

I agree with other people when it comes to Matthew, and how lightly the writers seems to want to let him off for all the truly vicious, and almost borderline, sick things he has been up to. First, he’s slashing tires to get the hearing kids kicked out of school, and then he’s catfishing to the point of harassment and real viciousness... It seems to me that Matthew has more issues than just struggling with being gay going on. He obviously has anger and behavioral issues that needs to be dealt with properly, and I don’t think the writers should let the character off so easily. I feel bad for Tank for how Bay has handled things with him regarding Emmet, but to be honest, he’s starting to display symptoms of being a “Nice Guy..” - and I find myself not really liking him too much. Why do I get the feeling that the writers are setting up Regina’s boss as something more ? I get the feeling that they intend - or at least intended - for something more to be going on between the two of them, and I don’t want. The writers seem to have finally created a relevant place for Angelo within the family, I don’t need any marital problems between him and Regina going on down the road with the boss.

So what, If this new guy is someone from the future of this present timeline and he doesn't know who Alec Sadlar is - does this mean that the future that Kiera comes from no longer exist ? And now Kellog is this important figure in the future? And how much money should I put down that this new guy's mission is to kill Kiera. I like the other Alec better, and I really want the writers to take us back to the proper timeline again.