Things that excite me

[oyceter]

• Christopher Judge of Stargate: SG-1 fame has a new show! He had me at "the earthly adventures of the angel Gabriel and his nemesis Lucifer."



• I want to find a recording of this! Raza Jaffrey from Spooks! Or I want to find the TV production that inspired it, because Parminder Nagra! Gender-bending! (Am a little eye-rolly at the exclamations on how mysterious and magical India is, but still. Mostly Indian cast!)



• The second POC SF Carnival is out!



• ABW is doing TV Corner week and has posted on shows like Heroes!



• rilina and shewhohashope are evil and getting me to watch dramas, which I have successfully avoided after eight entire years in Taiwan and pretty much everyone I know there watching them. But really! No one pimped cross-dressing, gender-bending dramas or Korean food porn dramas to me before, I swear. Also, everyone in the comments in my last Tramps Like Us post have convinced me to watch the drama as well. Come to think of it, I should put more Bollywood Indian movies (ETA: took out "Bollywood" after reading this) in my Netflix queue and look for more Southeast Asian movies and shows.
  
  The thing is, I know the gender roles in dramas and manga and anime can suck like whoa, and often do. But sometimes I just want to watch or read something in which Asian-ness is the norm, not the exception, in which Asian people are in lead roles and have romances and angst and actual storylines. I hate that so often I have to pick between the two: feminist and all white, Asian and non-feminist. I think I need a new icon reading: "Women of color! We exist too!"



• One more month till visiting rilina YAY!

Comments

It gets better!

[mayaluna.livejournal.com]

Even better -- Michael Shanks will be playing Lucifer on the same show! Seehttp://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw16718.html about 2/3 of the way down.

Re: It gets better!

[oyceter]

Cool! I don't actually watch SG-1 so I'm more excited about having a show with a black lead, but I am happy for the SG-1 fans out there who get a show with two of the old SG-1 cast.