I love Book and Zoe--- I love them all --- but why in a universe where Mandarin is a lingua franca are there so few Asian people onscreen?
Word. And how come the lead character is *still* a heterosexual, able-bodied, white man? What quality is it in Mal, or in his and Zoe's relationship that makes him the captain and not her? I can try to make up hypotheses in my head for it, but none of them are good enough to differentiate Mal from Jack O'Neill, Cameron Mitchell, John Sheppard, William Adama, John Crichton, Jonathan Archer, and look, I even limited myself to recent science fiction!
Zoe's part of the same tradition as Uhura
Speaking of Uhura, did you see that amazing photomanip Jack did? *drooool*
I think *we* can.
I think you're right. To that end, I'm going through my to-write list and my fandoms, and checking what characters I'm overlooking, and bumping the characters of colour upward on the list. (There are more of them than I thought, now I look - I just have to write the bloody things. I'm not good at completing fanfic.)
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Date: 2006-09-23 09:36 pm (UTC)Word. And how come the lead character is *still* a heterosexual, able-bodied, white man? What quality is it in Mal, or in his and Zoe's relationship that makes him the captain and not her? I can try to make up hypotheses in my head for it, but none of them are good enough to differentiate Mal from Jack O'Neill, Cameron Mitchell, John Sheppard, William Adama, John Crichton, Jonathan Archer, and look, I even limited myself to recent science fiction!
Zoe's part of the same tradition as Uhura
Speaking of Uhura, did you see that amazing photomanip Jack did? *drooool*
I think *we* can.
I think you're right. To that end, I'm going through my to-write list and my fandoms, and checking what characters I'm overlooking, and bumping the characters of colour upward on the list. (There are more of them than I thought, now I look - I just have to write the bloody things. I'm not good at completing fanfic.)