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Wax Lion

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  1. As I recall, ages ago she talked about keeping up with Jon Stewart by watching him online. Considering her early adopter history, she probably streams a lot of what she watches. Not sure if she still watches Ice T and Coco, now that most cable channels require a cable subscription to watch. I found the interview with Jane Sanders interesting, allowing for some interesting insights into an unconventional campaign. I get that some people just want her to just reflect their opinions but she's been very even handed with Democratic candidates. Chris Hayes is the one who has been asking challenging questions to both Sanders and Clinton campaigns.
  2. Thanks to the Vulture link. It explains how badly Beharie was treated which was ridiculous.
  3. I understand the concerns of erasing their heritage. Still, I feel like there's something limiting about saying that when a PoC is cast in a role, the character has to have qualities that are based in their ethnicity -- and since there have been qualities to Alex Parrish that take her ethnic background into account, there's a minimum. I feel like we just got past a hump where we were telling networks to stop defining a PoC character on their ethnicity, that we can have a variety of experiences. Now we're saying they're not defining PoC characters like Alex and Joan for not having enough "cultural markers"? Huh, what happened? I only caught a couple episodes this season, I thought it improved even if I found myself not caring. With Katrina gone, did they introduce a new white person to turn into a co-lead? Before the racial issues were pointed out to me, Sleepy Hollow's second season frustrated me because it was bad. So many of the qualities that made it interesting were suddenly gone, like Abbie's relationship with her sister. Plus the stories involving Katrina and Henry were terrible. I was really annoyed when I realized that all the terrible stories were moving the show toward minimizing the black characters (and the supporting PoC characters that disappeared like Nick Gonzales and John Cho). Looking back at this: Outside of the Empire empire (there's supposed to be a spin-off and a companion series, Star) it kinda feels like Fox is moving away from shows where a black woman is a co-lead on a diverse show. Casting for pilot season is still going on but looking a Fox's pilots, there are two dramas that might have a black lead (plus a comedy starring Niecy Nash). One is Star the other, Shots Fired, has Sanaa Lathan but I can't tell if her character is one of the leads.
  4. If my husband weren't still interested, I'd be done with The Walking Dead (and Fear TWD). I'm fully hatewatching it now and if my husband weren't into it, I be keeping up by reading one of the flood of articles that come out the next day.
  5. Frank was working my last nerve, while Reich started the discussion patiently waiting for his turn to talk, I thought Frank was doing his best Bill O'Reilly impression, acting like volume, interrupting and continuing talk after you've said what you were going to say. Reich started interrupting when it was clear Frank wasn't going to let Reich made a point uninterrupted but Frank was clearly not in the mood to have an actual debate. I got nothing out of that segment.
  6. Late last night there was an interesting conversation between Chris Hayes and Chris Matthews. Basically, Hayes tried to explain to Matthews that questions like "Is Sanders ready to be the next Commander in Chief?" and all the implications of the question -- the way "Commander in Chief" has become a shorthand for following a certain foreign policy view -- illustrate the kind of Beltway insider thinking that explains why people like Matthews have such a hard time understanding Sanders' supporters. To some degree, Hayes was finding nice ways to tell Matthews to get his head out of his own ass and it struck me as a much milder version of the on-air interventions Rachel gave Matthews back in 2008.
  7. In the US, "homosexual" has become associated with the rabidlt anti-gay right who have embraced the term to the point that when they reprint news wire stories, they have a scrip that changes any mention of gay to "homosexual," presumably because "homosexual marriage" and "homosexual rights" don't poll as well as when you say "gay marriage" or "gay rights". At this point, the term is theirs. They're the vast majority of people using it in the states. Perhaps in the future it can be reappropriated back the way queer has been but until then it's a word that doesn't put you in good company.
  8. Something pointed out to me in the debate over the Iron Fist casting -- SHIELD has the only major Asian characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. No Asians in the Netflix corner, none in the movies.
  9. Crap, crap, crap. Sorry about forgetting to spoiler tag that, grumpiness clouded my head. As I recall, Showtime treated Fuller terribly with Dead Like Me. One season had two clip episodes because of how small the budget was and an executive told Fuller he wasn't capable of knowing if Rebecca Gayhart was pretty or not as a gay man. (I guess Fuller didn't want to write her out of the show?) I didn't know homophobia prompted Fox to treat Wonderfalls so badly. The part line at the time was that the network got scared when CBS announced they were also making a show about a young woman who hears possibly-divine voices (Joan of Arcadia). I loved all the characters from that show and for a while Sharon Tyler was one of my favorite TV lesbians.
  10. I read on Twitter that there are two more lesbian characters expected to die in the next few weeks. Does anyone know who that was referring to? This is getting to the point where I'm starting to worry about the patrons at Jessica's favorite bar on Fresh Off the Boat. ETA: I hear it happens on , a show that previously had two gay male characters (at different times) and killed them both.
  11. Not always. The teenage characters who play 15-year-olds who take five seasons to turn 18 are usually played by twentysomethings. However, the characters of Jude and Connor are younger and those usually do get cast with teen actors. The Fosters has been going for a few years, now and according to a Fosters wiki, the character was 13 when the show started. Wow. I didn't know there was so much drama on the Fosters set. I've dropped any show I can't watch on Hulu that I don't watch with my husband so I'm behind on The Fosters. I figured the little screen time Jude got was about him being so young and having to meet with education requirements. Sigh, Freeform shows have the shippers that make me hate shippers. Usually, I'm fine with shipping who you like but the Braille and Ezria shippers are rooting for such toxic couples. Worse, The Fosters has done multiple stories about why Braille are an inappropriate couple. There were episodes that were practically screaming at the audience that if you care about Callie, you don't want her to be with Brandon but ugh.
  12. In hindsight, I was surprised the guy getting therapy from a dream ghost because he was debating if he was going to leave his wife didn't turn out to be involved with the prostitute who has been breaking up marriages all over town.
  13. My regional nitpick about TV weddings is that the ceremony is attended by everyone. Where I come from, only close family and friends are invited to the ceremony and everyone is invited to the reception afterward. That's usually because there's a good chance the church isn't close to banquet hall where the reception is held, probably a half-hour to an hour drive unless things are scheduled at an odd hour to avoid traffic, so there's often a chunk of time between the two. Plus, since the person in charge of decorating the church usually has a role in setting up the reception, anyone who drives from ceremony to reception will stand outside waiting to be let in. Thus, the only people who come to the ceremony are people who are close enough to deal with the extra hassle. Maybe it all comes down to where I'm from but on TV the newlyweds march right out of the church to have a beautiful reception a few steps away, especially if they have a friend with an amazing house with a backyard beautiful enough for the ceremony and a room large enough for a huge party. They don't even spend an hour posing for photos while people impatiently wait for the bar to open.
  14. I've seen the first two episodes. It's pretty amazing. Sometimes I wish Ellen had a PoC friend because it feels a little uncomfortable for me from that angle but overall it's an amazing series. Ellen and Ian are just too adorable together. I'll be honest, I find myself putting off actually watching episodes because they tackle difficult topics. The Brazil episode was excellent but sometimes hard to watch and I'm putting off watching the Jamaica episode.
  15. I didn't really notice a different dynamic between Rachel and Nicolle. This might have been a little more firey than usually but not by much.
  16. Damnit damnit damnit. I'm probably a little too annoyed by this to say much for now.
  17. Even when the show was airing, there were Xena writers who said they saw Xena and Gabrielle as a couple. I thought I posted this in a reply already but I guess I lost another longish post here. Anyway, it would be really terrible for Tara or Denise to die on The Walking Dead since Robert Kirkman has a history with dead gay characters. He did a story about a gay male superhero who died when the series was cancelled and the bury your gays aspect of it was made much worse because it got drawn into a bigger controversy over stupid comments from a Marvel editor. He later said: So he's aware of the trope and claimed to learn from it. The Walking Dead still gets extra scrutiny for the time when it was unintentionally enforcing a one-black-man-at-a-time rule and they've tried to fix that so I'm hopeful. Then again, the series is a bit of a mess right now, probably because of the extra work of putting together that spin-off so there's a good chance they'll do something stupid without having the time to realize it's stupid. That said there's one gay character I might be okay with TWD killing and that's Eric. If they killed him they'd basically be fridging him since his entire characterization is "Aaron's husband" but it might give Aaron a bigger role. I just hope if Aaron becomes a widower he and Jesus don't fall into the "The only two remaining gays in the village must hook up" trope. BTW, has anyone seen the telenovela La Reina del Sur? I've seen the beginning and the end of the series and while it, too, has two dead lesbian characters, there were flashbacks that suggested the lead character, Teresa, had an affair with one of the lesbian characters, Patti, when Teresa and Patti were in prison together. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten to that part now that it's on Netflix. I'm asking because there's a USA version of the series coming out and I'm wondering if we should expect the lead character to be bisexual/heteromantic.
  18. I was amused when I ventured in to the replies going to the twitter account for USA's Queen of the South to see angry fans of La Reina del Sur (both series are based on the same novel but the USA version is apparently aiming for a different tone) who don't like the idea of their show being remade.
  19. I love that Autostraddle did the companion list. I almost said that anyone who wants to argue that there wasn't anything wrong about Lexa's death should compile a list of all the happy endings, except that they probably don't know queer representation well enough. Even better that the same experts did both lists. ETA: Looking at both lists, I realize why I have so much trouble keeping up with lesbian and bi female characters on TV. There's enough representation overall that it becomes a lot harder to track everyone nowadays. As a gay man, I'm willing to endure a terrible show for just for a male character (though Charlie was the last thread for watching Supernatural, I didn't even watch her last episode, heard she died and gave up).
  20. I don't watch The 100 because the early reviews were bad, Isiah Washington hadn't been long from making those off-putting interviews about his Grey's Anatomy firing and once word spread that the show improved I haven't found time to catch up (and right now I'm waiting to see how hard it will be to keep up with CW shows next year after the current Netflix deal expires) but Maureen Ryan did a great piece of Lexa's death in Variety: http://variety.com/2016/tv/opinion/the-100-lexa-jason-rothenberg-1201729110/ Ryan's piece breaks down a mix of issues and breaking down why it's not something that can't be straightsplained away by saying The 100 is a show with a high body count. That's a great list on Autrostraddle, but one potential nitpick has me wondering if its a topic for debate. In the comics, Isabella Hartley and Victoria Hand are queer but the Agents of SHIELD producers decided not to acknowledge their sexuality because they knew those characters weren't going to survive long. Worse they would have been the first queer characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (this has been another topic of debate among gay fans). Since then, SHIELD introduced a gay man of color and Jessica Jones had two lesbian characters, one was a man in the comics and another . So is queer erasure okay if its done to avoid the dead lesbian trope? I'm not familiar with either comic character, was there something about the characters that merited bringing them to the screen if the character was going to die in a few episodes anyway? (If there was, I don't think they show captured it unless they picked Victoria Hand for her hair.) Sorry, I've got to question that. Why take such a hostile and dismissive tone when this thread has been ridiculously slow overall? Things were active until September, then it's been months in between posts, so why get so angry when after nearly three months without activity, there's no response in three hours? There's a lot of justifiable anger and frustration over The 100 but you're the first person to bring that discussion here, a week after it happened. It seems like people have gotten out of the habit of visiting this thread, no one thought to come here and bring up the male character who came out as bisexual on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, either (which is a big deal since they're consciously avoiding stereotypes that are still common with bisexual male characters).
  21. We've seen Rebecca's doing work for W&A's real estate clients, so she's generating some billable hours. She also seems to be ridiculously efficient, based on her essay for Josh's application and the way she goes from gossiping about her life with Paula in front of clients to surpassing their expectations, which might mean she's due to ask for a higher rate from clients.
  22. Just to be clear, I'm saying I wonder if that's what bubbles underneath the talk about Juan Pablo being hard to control. It's not the idea that he was troublesome because he was a person of color, sometimes privilege shows up in media in the form of seeing everything wrong with your first X (in this case the first PoC Bachelor) as part of a grand experiment that didn't work and not the problem with an individual. Since that didn't work out, the thought tends to be "Let's not try that experiment again." instead of looking past race and seeing Juan Pablo problems as The Bachelor as being comparable to Bob whasshisname's problems.
  23. I don't follow The Bachelor closely but I'll see stuff occasionally that mentions that ABC worries about having another "out of control" bachelor like Juan Pablo (who did create a lot of media controversies by not having a sense of things he shouldn't say to the press, like when he made homophobic comments). So while it's true that Juan Pablo was not the ideal bachelor, I sometimes wonder if those comments hint at a "We tried having a PoC Bachelor and it didn't work out."
  24. I kinda see Jealous' point in bringing up Goldberg but in truth campaigning for Goldwater after participating in the civil rights movement is just part of Clinton's journey. I think if you don't think it through, it does seem like a conflict with her support of Civil Rights before and after being a Goldwater Girl. At that point she was that clueless Republican who was supporting a Republican out of habit and hadn't thought through how the candidate's positions would work against what she actually wants. People like that are really frustrating (see all the young Trump supporters who just seem incapable of processing arguments of why he's not really an independent-minded candidate) but I'd like to think Clinton's journey is something we'd like to see happen to those Trump supporters in the future. And I get why it's an issue for Jealous. I disagree but I understand. It's pretty common to compare Trump's campaigning and extremism to Goldwater, imagine jumping several decades in the future and someone who campaigned for Trump is arguing that they have a history of advocating for latino immigrants. I wasn't alive for Goldwater's run but from what I've read of, I understand why someone would have a similar "How can you say you've worked for us and campaigned for him?" Considering his line of work, he's probably pretty familiar with the worst things Goldwater said about African-American people. I think one of Clinton's biggest weaknesses is she resists admitting to being wrong. She'd rather go with a fiction like claiming that Republcans were about to put together a Federal Marriage Amendment if DOMA weren't enacted before admitting that was a terrible thing to advocate. Going from being a Goldwater Girl to the Democratic front runner could be a very compelling story to tell, but I suspect there are too many times she'd have to say she looked at a position in the wrong way to be able to talk about how her ability to understand these issues grew. Also, I found an episode from when Chris was in Nevada on my DVR and heard a Clinton surrogate bring up the "establishment" attack against Sanders. That one always just sets me in a Madeline-Kahn-as-Mrs.-White rage because it is completely commonplace for politically-aware gay people to rage against the HRC with arguments that come down to "They're too establishment" and when Democrats cry "How dare he attack the HRC like that?" there's a part of me that goes into a "Why don't you talk to actual gay people?" screaming fury.
  25. I liked that we got two resets from last week's episode and they made sense for the characters. The show veered away from putting Josh and Rebecca together -- or making Greg chase after her -- in ways that fit the characters. Josh is lazy and will take the easy route to avoid conflict, Valencia is actually really dependent on Josh that he is the one person she won't chase out of her life for a slight and Greg is the kind of person who will shrug and walk away.
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