I know the idea is that Norman kills Norma, but since quite a bit about Norma has changed from the movie's representation of her, I feel that the big murder that he does next season will be Dylan. And maybe Norma's greatest sin will be that she will ultimately choose one son (Norman) over the other (Dylan) in a way…

And ………the reviewer ignores the one act Barbara did do, her sole—albeit fragile and messy piece of agency, have her parents killed. Yes she was forced to choose someone but her choice was personal and wish fulfilled. The reviewer not mentioning or discussing this does a further disservice to her character.

"That’s not entirely true. What I know of Barb is a lot. I know that she had a shitty marriage to Russ and bore the burden of raising their two sons. I know that her life was difficult, that money was tight, and that during that time, she did the best that she could. She came away from that time with opinions about…

welp, stay mad.

It could be as simple as it doesn't occur to him?

So why even reply? Your dedication to ignorance is almost admirable.

I could cut him slack, except i mean the entire thing is fantasy so he needn't have held to racial fidelity. So in that I fall more into your second paragraph.

lol, for one, someone being "ultra-pale" does not make others persons of color. I would suggest reading whiteness of a different color but i doubt you would read it. Two, no one accuses a white person of being racist for writing white characters; that is a lament made most often by white folks when their work or…

1) What was the point of you even replying? 2) Who says I don't enjoy the show (why else would I watch it)? 3) who says enjoyment must be sans critical enjoyment? 4) Who are you to dictate when and if someone can speak?

very much so; it is very much a possible reading. but it also doesn't exempt the fact that it was handled horribly.

there are whole discussions out there about how fantasy worlds are very much about race; GOT is no different nor is it exempt. The very fact that GRRM picks and chooses amongst which real cultures to borrow from (mostly European until he wants to get "earthy" or "exotic"), the fact that he sticks to a tradition of…

so yea, obviously they don't use that terminology as it is not terribly graceful, but I guess where you and I differ is in whether the writers or GRRM actually care about the "White Savior Complex" trope. There are multiple ways of reading this right; of example, they may think of this as something dealing with gender…

yeah, but I can't imagine any Black person who trusts the system; at least no one i know or have ever met would look at them as sane and serious. They would be so side-eyed.

Sorry but as much as i love Danny, GOT has never been able to rectify its racial problem and the fact that this slave rebellion story is very much told through a problematic white liberal lens. Sigh

The main thing I can't with this show is the way they depict Carter; what Black man, especially today, trusts in the system the way he does? I just………"their case is falling apart." Ummm you are a drug addicted Black man in the US accused of killing a seemingly upstanding middle class white man and assaulting his…

That was a badly worded sentence. What I was getting at was that Eddie used the accusation of racism not because he wholly felt, at that time, that it was racist and wrong that folk assumed that two Asian people would be friends simply because they are both Asian—to an extent he thought this—but rather because he felt…

What is interesting is that, yes FOB subverted a stereotype about Asains, it did so by confirming an old stereotype about Jewish people. This is the second time that the progressive treatment of Asain characters has come at the expense of another racial or ethnic minority/"other."

I think Dylan is in a very complicated space. He is an outsider when it comes to Norma and Norman (I mean part of why Norma loves Norman is because she sees him and his conception as blemish free, but she can't say the same about Dylan) and this man, who he clicks with, turns out to be both uncle and father, and a…

Ummmm how is there no mentioning of how the show seems to be channeling Octavia Butler, or that you have a modern Black woman transported to a time when slavery was common and people would not even think of her as human! That is what is most scary and interesting. How is Abby going to navigate this?

But ummmm how is Felicity criticizing her mother's wardrobe choices; she dresses similar but with a better budget.