Full disclosure, I am not a huge proponent of mixing race and culture. They're linked, of course, but as an immigrant and traveler I know that race can at times have absolutely nothing to do with culture.
Oh, but what about the Wraith? The central premise of SGA is that these people, the heroes, are here to commit xenocide or die. There is, at this moment, no other alternative. Other than leaving, and then, hey, no show. When the first SciFi channel ads came out, that was premise.
Stick that in front of a backdrop of people debating if torture is okay if it catches terrorists, and Kolya is the least of our metaphorical worries.
I take it as a rightful conclusion to the actions in the show. But it's the actions and attitudes you're pointing out, correct? Am I misunderstanding? I'm saying those writing choices are consistent with a, hm, humorous subversion. Absurd, even. And that subversion needs a stage that mirrors real life. (U.S. Congress is 87 percent white; 85 percent in the House and 96 percent in the Senate.) I mean, there are all kinds of other writing choices they could be making. What they settled on is that condescending American bias (compared to say, the amount of stuff we know about the Ancients in Atlantis, ironically) -- but I would be really, really disturbed if they were justifying it, which they are not.
I think a lot of people outside the U.S. underestimate how little general understanding there is of latent racism, historical precedent, and current policy. We don't talk about this. At all. What SGA is doing is taking a classic (white, male) comic book premise and putting in some really ugly, authentic actions. Even if it isn't deliberately subversive, if you play that in an American context? It's very Daily Show.
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Oh, but what about the Wraith? The central premise of SGA is that these people, the heroes, are here to commit xenocide or die. There is, at this moment, no other alternative. Other than leaving, and then, hey, no show. When the first SciFi channel ads came out, that was premise.
Stick that in front of a backdrop of people debating if torture is okay if it catches terrorists, and Kolya is the least of our metaphorical worries.
I take it as a rightful conclusion to the actions in the show.
But it's the actions and attitudes you're pointing out, correct? Am I misunderstanding? I'm saying those writing choices are consistent with a, hm, humorous subversion. Absurd, even. And that subversion needs a stage that mirrors real life. (U.S. Congress is 87 percent white; 85 percent in the House and 96 percent in the Senate.) I mean, there are all kinds of other writing choices they could be making. What they settled on is that condescending American bias (compared to say, the amount of stuff we know about the Ancients in Atlantis, ironically) -- but I would be really, really disturbed if they were justifying it, which they are not.
I think a lot of people outside the U.S. underestimate how little general understanding there is of latent racism, historical precedent, and current policy. We don't talk about this. At all. What SGA is doing is taking a classic (white, male) comic book premise and putting in some really ugly, authentic actions. Even if it isn't deliberately subversive, if you play that in an American context? It's very Daily Show.