![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Overall I'm enjoying the show, it's a nice big diverse ensemble space opera with some clever ideas and a lot of compassion for it's morally complex and varied characters. Also there's Big Cool Space Stuff with some thought and visual panache put into it.
But it sometimes feels very...well meaning middle class white American dude. There are THREE super-competent WOC characters who deliberately choose to be a loyal second in command to a less awesome, generally white dude. And I mean, I adore these characters! They're great! But the subtext is Not Great. And while there's lots of cool, competent women there's also a lot of women and little girls who exist to be in peril to make dudes feel bad.
And speaking of Not Great Subtext, there's the Belters...
Spoilers for all of Season 2 below the cut, though I'm only a bit over halfway through that season myself and would rather not be spoiled for anything else unless you think I'd really want to know.
( Read more... )
But it sometimes feels very...well meaning middle class white American dude. There are THREE super-competent WOC characters who deliberately choose to be a loyal second in command to a less awesome, generally white dude. And I mean, I adore these characters! They're great! But the subtext is Not Great. And while there's lots of cool, competent women there's also a lot of women and little girls who exist to be in peril to make dudes feel bad.
And speaking of Not Great Subtext, there's the Belters...
Spoilers for all of Season 2 below the cut, though I'm only a bit over halfway through that season myself and would rather not be spoiled for anything else unless you think I'd really want to know.
( Read more... )
