Archive of ‘television shows’ category

09
Mar
2021

I made a minor mistake here, folks… my bad.

categories: personal, television shows; word count: 299 words

I didn’t queue a post to go up today, even though I have posts ready for the next several days.

For some reason, composing and scheduling a post for today —this day — nearly managed to slip my mind.

In relevant news, I kept informed about the virtual panel that Supernatural actors Jared Padalecki (Sam) and Jensen Ackles (Dean) held. Upon finding out how it was transpiring, I actually regret having done so, even regretting the effort that I made to stay on top of how it was going. Almost no mention was made of fellow co-star and lead Misha Collins (Castiel) to the point that it became clear that the subject of him was taboo.

It’s becoming clearer that the executives want to sanitize the show, making it about two brothers who traveled the country hunting, forgetting that for a decade they had a sidekick in the form of an angel of the Lord. That’s a fairly big thing to… forget, or miss. But the fact that no questions seemed to be permitted about Castiel’s confession of love to Dean, or even his fate, did not escape me. I could tell that the omissions were intentional. The show executives did not appear to want Castiel talked about, and the only reason that I say “appear to” here is because I would be delighted to be proven wrong. But do I think I’m going to be proven wrong? No, not quite. This is why, as I’ve said, I’m staying in it for the “Supernatural family” and the fans. I’m not going to give the executives another dollar of mine if this is really how things are going to go.

I have regrets about how I spent some of the day that panel was on, and keeping informed was that regret.

07
Mar
2021

The problematic optics of CW’s Walker: part four.

categories: television shows; word count: 127 words

This problematic optic may not be as widely known by those who… don’t live in Texas, haven’t lived in Texas for awhile, or don’t know Texan history, but the Texas Rangers were widely held to be racist during their original tenure. So it blows my mind that a producing company would want to remake a show whose occupation was deeply core to the show itself when this information isn’t difficult to find at all. To be honest, this seems like another attempt to rewrite Walker himself and the Texas Rangers… oh, look, they’re not racist any more, they “reformed”, or however people say it to themselves to help themselves sleep well each night.

Congratulations, though, seriously, on rebooting an old show whose occupational histories are literally racist.

06
Mar
2021

The problematic optics of CW’s Walker: part three.

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One of the things that Walker desperately tries to push, or make the audience see, is the “good cop” image.

In a world with Black Lives Matter and after the deaths of so many African-American men at the hands of law enforcement, this is another thing that has made me… for lack of a better way to say it, not watch the show. This is not something that we need right now. My feelings on law enforcement aside — I support defunding the police, do not like how our law enforcement system is set up in regard to police, and think the best cop is one who is no longer working — this is not a show that needs to air right now while so many tensions are still high. But the executive producers were, and are, desperate to push the idea of a “good cop” onto viewers… and, well, anyone who might even remotely watch the show. It’s bad enough that we are still in the midst of a global pandemic and shows are still being produced (why can’t we wait the pandemic out and then get on making new shows?), but now we have the show that the CW has sunk the most money in to advertise desperately trying to show us an example of a “good cop”… and to be honest, they aren’t even getting that right. (As it also stands, Texas Rangers are also inherently racist. There’s that to deal with.)

Barely out of the gate, Walker was renewed for another season, but I don’t see it lasting an awfully long time. Either that or I see it being drug along like a dead horse because the CW is desperate to make this as popular as Supernatural was. And Supernatural originally came over from WB. The CW could never conceive of a show like that on their own, and it became evident with some of the decisions that were later made in regard to the show (#SaveCastiel season seven when they wanted to kill him off, dumping character Charlie Bradbury dead in a bathtub purely for shock value having had a literal Nazi kill her).

These are also sentiments widely held by people who question the CW on… well, pretty much everything.

05
Mar
2021

The problematic optics of CW’s Walker: part two.

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Jared Padalecki is one of the executive producers of Walker.

That in itself is not a problem.

However, where inspiration was allegedly drawn for the show… is a problem. It’s a big problem.

Executive producers have admitted that they drew inspiration from Walker from the pain and suffering that migrant children caged at the United States-Mexico border are experiencing. They drew inspiration for a completely unrelated show from the pain and suffering of these children at the border. For some reason, they thought that this was good information to… put out there regarding the show. Every time I hear about it, see it, or have to tell someone about it, I am bothered that much more by how awful that truly is. That alone would have gotten me not to watch or support Walker, because not only is that disastrous from an interview standpoint, but the fact that it is now public knowledge makes it even worse. I’m sure that the caged children down at the border really appreciate being used as a PR gambit by the executive producers of Walker, because like I said… that’s all that really has to be said. And quite frankly, I find it sickly abhorrent.

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