Getting real tired of your ****, Arrow
Jan. 23rd, 2014 10:28 pm- Is there going to be no end to the times Laurel gets Damsel in Distress-ed? The frequency of it is starting to become disturbing.
- So...we have Sebastian Blood, who's Latino, and a villain (moreover, a villain being ordered around by a bigger mastermind villain who's a white man), and next week the villain looks like a black man. Oh, and let's not forget China White from season one, a villain-for-hire. Someone's probably going to say "But most of the villains are white, not PoC!" True...except look at the tally of PoC in general in this show. Apart from those 3 villains, we have Yao Fei (dead), Shado (brutally fridged for TWO men's manpain), Detective McKenna (effectively erased from the show), Laurel's friend Joanna (also disappeared since Season 1), Frank Chen (dead), Detective Lance's partner (fridged), and Diggle (alive).* Nope, Diggle being an awesome character does not outweigh EVERY OTHER POC being either villainous, dead, or Put On a Bus.
(* I'm sure I'm missing some characters; if I am missing major ones, let me know.)
- So...we have Sebastian Blood, who's Latino, and a villain (moreover, a villain being ordered around by a bigger mastermind villain who's a white man), and next week the villain looks like a black man. Oh, and let's not forget China White from season one, a villain-for-hire. Someone's probably going to say "But most of the villains are white, not PoC!" True...except look at the tally of PoC in general in this show. Apart from those 3 villains, we have Yao Fei (dead), Shado (brutally fridged for TWO men's manpain), Detective McKenna (effectively erased from the show), Laurel's friend Joanna (also disappeared since Season 1), Frank Chen (dead), Detective Lance's partner (fridged), and Diggle (alive).* Nope, Diggle being an awesome character does not outweigh EVERY OTHER POC being either villainous, dead, or Put On a Bus.
(* I'm sure I'm missing some characters; if I am missing major ones, let me know.)