Continuing my trend...

[fangirl_says]

...of posting smart things that smart people are saying that I wish I had the smarts to say myself, I really like what blacklid says here.

My favorite part:

Here's a mind bender: this show has so much merit because it creates wank of epic proportions. The creators and writers are instructed to work in the metaphors and the concepts that some of us are seeing. If I was a writer on this show, I would take it as a compliment that a character I created and then killed off gets labeled as a trend (like "all black men die"... gee, I think I used that one recently...) and discussed intelligently until we are all blue in the face. I would be ecstatic, because this is the purpose of good entertainment that's taken seriously; it is supposed to make us think. How meaty plot and characterization gets analyzed and turned into a serious dialog about social behavior is THE WHOLE POINT.

Now, if we can just keep from hacking each other to pieces in the process.

Ooh, also, go here and DL philomel's season 3 Metallicar Mix. I still listen to the season 2 Metallicar Mix, and this one looks just as awesome. :D

Comments

[esorlehcar.livejournal.com]

I... don't know. Whenever anyone, anywhere, says that something was racist, or sexist, or homophobic, multiple people get angry and claim that it is not. Always. That's just how it works. So what her argument boils down to is, if people have problems with the way any of these issues are portrayed, that automatically means the source is deliberately and skillfully making people think in positive ways, and that's a fairly ridiculous statement. By her reasoning, the fact that people objected to miscegenation being listed as a kink or using kristallnacht to set up a sexy fun RPG "proves" that people who did those things were promoting positive social dialogue.