Random note

[kingandy]

So we were watching Battlestar Galactica and it's that one with the refinery and there's Apollo, some chick and an asian guy doing an attack run and I think to myself, "Oh ho, the token ethnic guy is totally gonna get it because he's ethnic".  And like the very next second a laser bolt or whatever shoots right through his canopy and shoots him through the heart.

American studios still have this tiny blind spot regarding the ethnics.

Comments

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

Earlier episode - Cally was the one almost raped and eventually (and quite graphically) shot, though she survived, rather than Dee in the next cell.

And Chuckles was the middle death out of the three pilots dying on screen this episode, and to my memory he's the first ethnic character we actually see die in the whole series so far.

[kingandy]

I could probably argue that I was not citing Chuckles as an example of such, merely an incident that reminded me of the tendency, and that there's no causal relationship between the two paragraphs.

I could certainly argue that I wasn't accusing Galactica of doing it all the time, since I am - as mentioned - only a casual viewer. I have no clue who Cally or Dee are.

However, instead I will only laugh at the man's chosen callsign. Chuckles! Hee hee hee!

[kingandy]

Also I mostly mentioned it because it happened just as I was thinking it.