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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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[ponygirl2000.livejournal.com]

Hmm but do you think Heroes has any sort of awareness of what it reflects? I definitely enjoy the show - and my main criteria for enjoyment is that it not bores me so I'm not looking for any grand achievement - but I don't think it's particularly self-aware.

[deevalish.livejournal.com]

Regarding the Heroes debates, I've actually defriended a couple of people because I became tired of it. I don't turn to prime time tv shows to educate myself about the world and how to interact with the many people on it. The disappointment and anger that they spew about how too many X are being killed or how few Y or Z are on screen is just tiring. It's tv people! Not the United Nations or whatever. Nothing is ever perfect.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

At Comic con I attended the 'Heroes' panel, and a woman got up and asked if there was any hopes of women being portrayed as anything other than a stripper or a cheerleader. The producers/writers were all surprised and hurt, and very defensive; it was clear that this had NEVER occurred to them as a problem (talk about not being self aware, don't they even have focus groups?).
But I do have hopes that we'll see some more interesting women characters this year, and like you I don't really want to bash the show because it is entertaining. I would rather bash shows like 'The Bachelor' or 'Big Shots' or hundreds of others with no intelligent/competent women at all.