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[shadowkat]

If you want to know why I loved Brian Lynch's writing and Urru's art on Spike Shadow Puppets and Asylum, and why I'm looking forward to Angel: After the Fall, go read elsie marvelous review which can be found here: http://elisi.livejournal.com/297149.html?style=mine#cutid1

Am avoiding the Heroes debates, mostly because I think people are ignoring the fact that what we see on tv reflects what is going on in our world. Like it or not, we live in a misogynistic, chauvinistic, racist society. Heck, name one show on TV that doesn't reflect that in some way. I can't think of one. Better yet, name one advertisement.

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The internet is actually doing a good job of giving a voice to the problem. I think what has happened with the net is it has given people a free bulletin board to post their views on. Prior to the net, you could only get your views heard if you got them published by someone or broadcast via a ham radio or public access station. The net is a much better forum - partly because governments and whomever is in power can't figure out how to police it. We can't be as easily censored on the net as we can elsewhere. Plus - we can post and voice our views, while protecting our real identities so no one comes and fires us or hurts us for them.

I have very low expectations when it comes to Heroes. It surprised me this year for being better than I expected. Consider the source after all - Brian Fuller (who was perhaps the only self-aware writer in the bunch - left for Pushing Daisies) this left behind Jeff Loeb (a Marvel comics writer) Tim Sale (he of the pin-up girl paintings), and Kring.
They did hire a female writer - so this may help. But it still feels very "geeky guy" centric with men as its target audience -so I wouldn't expect too much. I honestly think the good female action shows are a thing of the past at this point - although the Sarah Connor Chronicles could prove me wrong.