Okay, I'm gonna need some help here.
Oct. 15th, 2010 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It's like banging my head against a wall, but more painful. And if I'm going to keep wasting my time on this futile effort, I could at least get a little company there.
I mean, I'm not wrong, am I? My facts aren't wrong, are they? My thoughts aren't missing a crucial point, are they? This person IS being willfully annoying, right?
HELP ME OUT HERE I FEEL SO ALONE.
Also, I didn't know this as I don't really follow celebrity anything (I'm lucky if I know who a certain star IS, much less what they've done and why people care) or watch many movies or TV shows (I do watch TV, of course, but I seem to limit myself to three or four shows. If I add a new one, an old one inevitably drops off my list), but I'm realizing it now by looking at these pictures...
WOW does that girl look like her dad. Will Smith? HIS DAUGHTER LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM.
It's sorta creepy to look at, but I'm sure as she gets older it'll be more her face and less her dad as a young girl. (Kinda like a kid down her block who looks spookily like her grandmother... or she did at four. Creepy seeing a four year old who looks like a 50 year old woman, but now that she's 12 even though her face hasn't changed, it looks like HER instead of her grandma.)
I mean, I'm not wrong, am I? My facts aren't wrong, are they? My thoughts aren't missing a crucial point, are they? This person IS being willfully annoying, right?
HELP ME OUT HERE I FEEL SO ALONE.
Also, I didn't know this as I don't really follow celebrity anything (I'm lucky if I know who a certain star IS, much less what they've done and why people care) or watch many movies or TV shows (I do watch TV, of course, but I seem to limit myself to three or four shows. If I add a new one, an old one inevitably drops off my list), but I'm realizing it now by looking at these pictures...
WOW does that girl look like her dad. Will Smith? HIS DAUGHTER LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM.
It's sorta creepy to look at, but I'm sure as she gets older it'll be more her face and less her dad as a young girl. (Kinda like a kid down her block who looks spookily like her grandmother... or she did at four. Creepy seeing a four year old who looks like a 50 year old woman, but now that she's 12 even though her face hasn't changed, it looks like HER instead of her grandma.)
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Date: 2010-10-18 12:41 am (UTC)A race of slaves that needs human help. Yeah....
As far as Sister, Sister; Family Matters; etc. - this was addressed in at least one of the links. African-Americans are disproportionately represented on sitcoms... but fairly isolated TO sitcoms and ON sitcoms. You don't see many diverse casts in sitcomland.
My question, then, is what would the desired non-white-male character be like?
They should be interesting. I can't say "They should be this or that" because that depends on the part, the story, the whole shebang. But unless there's nothing BUT trite stock characters, we should see somebody we can believe in as a real person. It's a pity this isn't easy, but it's... well, it's not easy.
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Date: 2010-10-18 01:24 am (UTC)1. They also fought for themselves, doing most of the fighting. Even the Americans had help from other countries in the American Revolution.
2. The humans weren't all-powerful themselves and regularly depended on other races, including the Jaffa, to maintain their own freedom.
As far as Sister, Sister; Family Matters; etc. - this was addressed in at least one of the links. African-Americans are disproportionately represented on sitcoms... but fairly isolated TO sitcoms and ON sitcoms. You don't see many diverse casts in sitcomland.
On the same token, sitcoms make up a good chunk of TV. You yourself mentioned Friends, which last I checked was considered a sitcom. That said, I'm of the opinion that sitcoms have their own unique values. They are like court jesters in that they can teach valuable lessons or approach taboo subjects and get away with it, because they make their audience laugh. Of course, the ones I mentioned have been in syndication for about 15 years now, and I don't really watch the new ones, so that very likely might have changed with new ones (which wouldn't surprise me, as I'm also of the opinion that TV quality has severely degraded over the past couple of decades). But then, I also think rather differently than most of the people I know. *shrug*
And just for a random thought, why didn't the writers of shows like Family Matters ever do other (mainstream) black-casted shows? Family Matters used to be on ABC's coveted "TGIF" lineup.