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*sigh*
I don't usually join all the sexist/ablist/misogynist/racist bruhaha out there - most of it is blown totally out of proportion - but the latest SGU spoiler? Like, for real?
So, we have a quadriplegic Eleanor who switches bodies with the only lesbian character on the show and proceeds to have sex with the man with whom the lesbian refused to go to bed. Erm, for real?
Setting aside the lesbian thing, the point of consent doesn't border on dub here, it's a hardcore non-con of the date-rape kind. How are Rush's actions - and Eleanor's too - different from a date-rapist's? And if that's the point of the episode - which I highly doubt - will the wrongness of his act be properly acknowledged? Even on SPN Sam didn't succumb to Ruby's seduction until she proved to him that the owner of the body she was using had officially died.
I mean, these are the same writers who thought it funny that Lucius drugged his wives into submission (SGA) and never acknowledged the fact that Daniel was raped by Hathor (SG-1). And now this.
And even if the crime is addressed, does it change the fact that the lead of the show committed rape? Or does that fall under the "they are both heroes and villains" and I should just accept that people do bad things and move on? And they want me to watch people like that week in, week out? Like, for real?
ETA: Brad Wright's response.
So, we have a quadriplegic Eleanor who switches bodies with the only lesbian character on the show and proceeds to have sex with the man with whom the lesbian refused to go to bed. Erm, for real?
Setting aside the lesbian thing, the point of consent doesn't border on dub here, it's a hardcore non-con of the date-rape kind. How are Rush's actions - and Eleanor's too - different from a date-rapist's? And if that's the point of the episode - which I highly doubt - will the wrongness of his act be properly acknowledged? Even on SPN Sam didn't succumb to Ruby's seduction until she proved to him that the owner of the body she was using had officially died.
I mean, these are the same writers who thought it funny that Lucius drugged his wives into submission (SGA) and never acknowledged the fact that Daniel was raped by Hathor (SG-1). And now this.
And even if the crime is addressed, does it change the fact that the lead of the show committed rape? Or does that fall under the "they are both heroes and villains" and I should just accept that people do bad things and move on? And they want me to watch people like that week in, week out? Like, for real?
ETA: Brad Wright's response.