will and grace was "propaganda" that directly led to marriage equality. the real world miami made enormous strides in acceptance of gay men with AIDS. letting trans actors be visible, actual people could have a positive impact on a community that's literally under siege.

when there are people who can portray the experience more authentically and help diminish the virulent hatred against their community, casting with type matters.

i might be misreading, but this seems to assume that all trans actors have made changes to their bodies in the course of transitioning. many trans people are not on hormones and don't choose surgery.

i'd join the people thinking it was ridiculous, if only these were the standards of 2016. while i don't know the numbers, i highly doubt most of trans roles are played by trans actors. for every buck from OA and sophia from OINTB, there is ray in three generations and jeffrey tambor in transparent. mark ruffalo…

it's notable that OINTB let laverne choose whether she wanted to do the pre-transition scenes and she's the one who suggested her brother. the important thing is to listen to trans people.

was there yellow-face in twin peaks? or did you mean the year of living dangerously?

i hate when redheads fight

what's the point of "bad dads"? isn't that what most straight men expect to be anyway?

it's not so much an issue of room. the characters i listed are all recurring, so they've all had screen time in multiple episodes. the issue is why they're there and what is done with their screen-time. i mentioned hawes, mason, and harlan before. they're the quirky nerds who are there because of their expertise.…

i just saw someone on twitter argue that everyone has access to life-saving treatment because the ER is open to all. like 10 people took him down. lower-middle class are not getting chemo or an even slightly not-established surgery through the ER.

i think they had trouble finding an audience because it was at heart a character and relationship driven soap with sports elements, like friday night lights with a smaller cast, but without the name recognition.

it's hard to compare similar backgrounds for a protagonist and a main not-lead character side by side. sherlock's history of abuse and neglect has been a fundamental part of his character since his first scene. marcus's story, told five years after we first met him, could just as easily been something completely…

lol i totally forgot about oscar! so that's four acts of willful physical assault. moran refused to ID him, no one knew about the guy he tortured in season 2 except mycroft who is a gremlin, morland called upon the powers of bruce wayne to make oscar not an issue, and then there's this russian dude. despite sherlock's…

it's their job to make the viewers care about what's going on. any semi-decent tv series would bother to develop a recurring character and their relationship with the main. this show did that for the co-worker of the medical examiner who got blown up.right after he asked her out. in only a few minutes, she had a…

that was the point of his character. he wanted to be a robber baron instead of a street thug.

i think they cobbled it together a la giant gun filled with drugs. the second suspect sold airplanes or something & they spun that into a metaphor about sherlock's concern that marcus would make a decision he'd reget.

- they could not give less of a crap about chantal. wow.

the part of that that really stayed with me was how he essentially made marcus a willing accomplice, or aider/abetter. sherly tortured people twice and he did plant evidence or something earlier this season, but no one from the NYPD were ever brought in on the fact that he did it. even with moran in season one,…

and woodstock 3

what makes it worse is that on earth 2, caitlin had a convo w/killer frost about how their lives were different—kf had a brother who died, while caitlin was an only child—indicating the very logical idea of kf developing that way due to her different circumstances. then they just threw that out the window.