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TerranC said:
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Ragnarok said:
So you judge the show on an episode title? 
What about the actual show did you not like?
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Randallw said:
If you mean the one which concentrated on the husband, I thought it was good. We see things from the husbands perspective and learn that his wife is wrong about him, and that what he does is to protect her.
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... No, that is not the episode I am talking about. And no, I am not judging the show on an episode title - I had believed that that would be enough to show my beef with the show, but apparently it doesn't seem to have registered.
To clarify, my biggest beef with the show is that the creators seem to have chosen that korean couple to be the token minority figure. From what I have seen of their portrayals, they are too damn stereotypical, and even then the creators used the wrong stereotypes, seeming to liken their nation of origin with a particular nation neighbouring it.
The show, in it's other aspects is fine. It's got hobbits and aliens and adam and eve and everything. It's just that for a show to be entertaining to me, it has to get whatever it is portraying reasonably right or seemingly justified; Lost doesn't do that, at least not with the "korean" characters.
Edit: That's it. I've given this piece of turd that is hollywood enough attention. If you still don't know what I mean, PM me.
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I thought the Middle Eastern dude was the token minority..... or the black guy with the estranged kid.... or the fat guy.... or the guy in the wheel chair..... lol.
Seriously, IIRC TerranC IS of korean descent, sorry if thats supposed to be a secret or something but I can see where you're coming from
. If there was a cuban guy on that show, and he was a jazz musician who made bongos out of boar skins and a log or a was a baseball player, yeah i'd be kinda pissed too.
IMO middle eastern people got shafted a bit more then the asian in terms of portraial. You have 1 middle eastern guy on the flight, he just happens to be an ex-secret police officer trained in intell gathering, espianoge and torture, each of which he gets to employ on the show. His reason for being on the flight is he had to bury his friend who was a suicide bomber..... yeah unwitting mafia wife who knows acupunture and stooge yakuza husband who speaks half *** korean dilalects ain't so bad now eh
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Meh, I don't really sweat stuff like that, look at enterprise and the anti-vulcans, you expect to much from writers(BTW I hear "Knocker Spocker" from enterprise has a role in the new season, and what's her name that voiced Leela on futurama, from married with children....). Aside from occasionally dumb characters the show is pretty fun, got a good cliffhanger vibe from episode to episode, like an old radio show(complete with racial stereotypes...). My only problem is that I know this can't end well, same gut feeling i get from battle star galactica, you know it's going to turn into Lost 1984 where the descendants of the stradees try to survive, then integrate into society while running from polar bears.....