more asians in serenity

POSTED BY: jebusyoon
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 06:32
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:47 PM

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This is something that had never occurred to me before, but it lends a whole new dimension to my impressions of Simon.

Guess I'd forgotten that, but yeah. To me it was pretty plain to see that Simon and River were definitely Chinese. If not in straight ethnic terms, they were certainly culturally so.

Culture, after all, is more than just whether or not you have "slanty eyes" or not. Compare, say Zhang Ziyi and Bai Ling. Two very, VERY different Chinese actresses.

Besides, there were enough Asians on the show to give the flavor for my tastes. And the culture is what was respected, so that means a helluva lot more.

Again: Mal: Chopstick user. Kaylee: Chopstick user. Bao. Chinese: Very prevalent.

Even if Tam sounds more Cantonese than Mandarin, and most of the other stuff is straight Mandarin. I guess if there were enough colonies, you'd see more homogenously Cantonese settlements. Or, perhaps the Tams were an Americanized Chinese line that more easily took on Chinese cultural trappings due to their likely significantly diluted Chinese "racial" heritage.

VISITINGMYINTENTIONS

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 6:32 AM

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Originally posted by yorg:
You can can't say, "Hey you have slanty eyes, you get the part." That would be ridiculous.

Why (besides the racist language)? If you're shooting a film about ancient Africa, you aren't going to sign on a bunch of Icelanders. Correspondingly, you don't do a film about Vikings with Indians, even if they are good actors.

I think they could put some more effort into the consistency of this world. This maybe based off the Civil War, but this ain't the ante-bellum south upperclass.

With only 14 episodes, they get a bit of slack. They certainly did have many in the random background extras. But they ought to have some as more important characters. Why weren't any of the doctors on Ariel asian? That's a core planet. Or how 'bout the counsellor? Terrible as it is to say, that would have made that bit of fan service even more service-ier.

My fantasy is Firefly starts up again where it left off in OiS, and we get to see that we were judging from too small a sample. Ah, the dreams, the dreams...

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