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I have an obsessive personality and this blog is, as they say, not quality. 'K.
Reading: Gold - Isaac Asimov
Rereading: A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
Keeping up with: Downton Abbey, Fringe, Game of Thrones, The Good Wife, Leverage, Modern Family, Once Upon a Time, Parks and Recreation, Rizzoli & Isles, Up All Night
Catching Up On: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Frozen Planet, Sex and the City, Smallville
mini-hiatus as i’ll be going off to lisbon for a couple of days. have fuuun!
you know how people say “shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among the stars”?
actually, besides the sun, the closest star is over 4 light-years away
so if you miss, you’ll just be floating through the dark void of space for the rest of eternity
until you are dead, just like your dreams
MM WHATCHA SAYYYY
YOUR SWEET POTATOES ARE BLAND
Cats x Fruit
“The way the world is made. The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites. Everywhere, the war.
This week’s The Good Wife was fantastic, but yech, the way they treat race and people of colour on this show always frustrates me. If I were more awake and had less work to do maybe I could mount a better argument about this, but. I can think of three black characters who were given something to do in the last year (i.e. excluding Julius Cain, who’s still a partner at the firm, but flits by in an episode once every half-season to make a point about race, or something) - Derrick Bond, associate: fired! And I do feel like he was brought in and set up to fail as he did.
In this episode alone!: Wendy Scott-Carr, the person who led the case against Will, and when that case failed the show framed it as her failure! (And I don’t think I’m being overly sensitive about this, because even with Cary and Dana in the room with her at all times, every time someone from Lockhart-Gardner nailed it at the stand, and when we saw the case falter against the jury at the end, we saw her reaction: crushed and lost for words and caught completely off-guard.) Dana, who gets tricked by Kalinda (who’s shady but the audience does love her) and then slaps her. (And let’s not get into the “Cary likes dark-skinned women” thing, whatever that was.) It says more against them than not. :/
Plus this show likes to bring in weird science to justify racism? or something? I just. Dramatically this show is so good, and I enjoy these characters so much, and I love these ladies so much (Kalinda! textual bisexual who is badass!), but the way it handles race and other political ~issues~ is so sketchy.
Exactly, exactly! You touched on all the things that made me uncomfortable. Derrick Bond was definitely set up to fail from the start and Wendy Scott-Carr’s reaction reminds me of this Disney villain type deal: she was clever and menacing until the show decided it was going to resolve the issue and then she became this person who can’t for the life of her find a way around what’s happening. I loved the episode too and it was fabulous for the people whose side the viewing audience is supposed to be on but that was definitely there as well. As it’s there all the time. This is the show that tries to “prove” that racism doesn’t exist because look, Kalinda can’t tell white people apart!
