Re: GH: Hilarious Racist Writing

>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:23:26 -0500, Aisling Willow Grey wrote
(in article <0001HW.C001915600255F98F0284550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

>>> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:43:40 -0500, Seth J. Bookey wrote
> (in article <drep9c$8he$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
>> Okay, so Luke is somewhere in Africa. So we are treated to "natives" who
>> refuse to take "I am not really a doctor" for an answer. Luke treats the
>> stricken teen with a tic tac (no one knows the difference) and they offer
>> him a WOMAN as thanks, and when he turns her down, they offer him a
>> CHIMPANZEE. Um, maybe this passes as humor somewhere, but it pretty
>> clearly says "african women are roughly equal in value to a primate." And
>> the chimp ware gold lammae diapers.
>>
>> This is completely insulting to just about everyone and I am surprised
>> Anthony Geary would even perform in such a scene. They could have written
>> something rather similar without making the Africans look like they were
>> moments away from putting bones through their noses. Kidnapping Luke on
>> the strength of his false credentials and not letting him go could have
>> been short-term interesting storyline enough. I am only halfway through
>> Friday's episode, but I am fucking appalled. <<
>
> Okay, I finally watched this...and it WAS appalling! I can't fathom how
> those actors were willing participants in it! I'm sure that in addition to
> the abomination that was the dialogue, probably also the costumes and set
> dressing were a mixed bag of cultural gobbledy-gook, and not anything
> specifically from the South Pacific island on which it was supposed to be
> taking place. And do they even _use_ blowguns there? Do they even _have_
> chimpanzees there? Ugh. Embarrassing!
>
> And, whoever said that Tristan Rogers aged well, I agree! I'd seen him in
> stuff over the years - most notably in a first season episode of Babylon 5
> (1993), and in an independent film from 2000 called "A Piece of Eden" (which
> has Babylon 5's Andreas Katulas in it, which is why I own it <g>), and I'm
> amazed at how dapper he continues to look. <<

Gah, typo! That should have been Andreas Katsulas, of course! My fingers
were ahead of my brain!

Aisling
FAC Will Cortlandt
Jewelled Frango 2001

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