OMG the Asian hotel! Full of partying white people! It was so bad! So bad! And random people in the Mandarin collars and frog button things! And the geisha! WTF? Also, to be nitpicky, from a quick glance, her kimono did not look particularly authentic—too loose and foldy and draped, with the obi being not at all stiff enough.
I did like seeing the Latino character as a man of power and wealth and sensitivity (although also annoyed with the Asian decorations in his house! For a while, I was trying to figure out if the actor was multiracial to explain the framed kanji and the bamboo), but I really didn't like that he basically was only there as plot fodder, that he gets shot and has absolutely nothing to do with the rescue of his daughter, and then is out of the picture for the rest of the show. And the egregious accent on the kidnapper over the phone! And that even with the kidnapping gang, the white guy is in power!
I like Boyd the most as well and really hope I am wrong re: his character development.
I don't know. I am just angry and cynical and tired. And the egregious Asian trappings SO did not help.
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Sun, Feb. 15th, 2009 01:00 am (UTC)I did like seeing the Latino character as a man of power and wealth and sensitivity (although also annoyed with the Asian decorations in his house! For a while, I was trying to figure out if the actor was multiracial to explain the framed kanji and the bamboo), but I really didn't like that he basically was only there as plot fodder, that he gets shot and has absolutely nothing to do with the rescue of his daughter, and then is out of the picture for the rest of the show. And the egregious accent on the kidnapper over the phone! And that even with the kidnapping gang, the white guy is in power!
I like Boyd the most as well and really hope I am wrong re: his character development.
I don't know. I am just angry and cynical and tired. And the egregious Asian trappings SO did not help.