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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!

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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.

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