Cannot unsee
Jan. 12th, 2013 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeThis week, at the behest of suburbannoir, I started watching Breaking Bad. (We have a thing where I watch one of her favourite shows, she watches one of mine, etc. Last year I watched The Wire for her, and she watched Babylon 5 for me. SHUT UP, THEY ARE TOTALLY COMPARABLE.)
Anyway, I'm only four episodes in, but it's the internet, I've seen pictures from future seasons and whatnot, and I already know that Skyler is the very worst character in the history of storytelling (on account of how she's a woman, and has opinions, and expects to be treated with respect, as far as I can tell), and according to The Guardian, the whole show shamefully appropriates the drug culture of people of colour (and only PoC) and turns it into a white middle class fantasy, and worse, isn't even an accurate depiction of the meth industry!
(Which I can vouch for. I've transcribed cases involving meth cooks and users, and either way, the transcript tends to come out looking like this:
SUSPECT: ...(INAUDIBLE)... fuckin' ...(INAUDIBLE)... cuntin' ...(INAUDIBLE)... fuck - - -
And let me tell you, I am SHOCKED and APPALLED that television, of all media, would enhance the truth.)
The actual point, however, of this post is this:
Yep. Good luck getting that one out of your head! And don't do meth. It's legit nasty.
suburbannoir, I started watching Breaking Bad. (We have a thing where I watch one of her favourite shows, she watches one of mine, etc. Last year I watched The Wire for her, and she watched Babylon 5 for me. SHUT UP, THEY ARE TOTALLY COMPARABLE.)Anyway, I'm only four episodes in, but it's the internet, I've seen pictures from future seasons and whatnot, and I already know that Skyler is the very worst character in the history of storytelling (on account of how she's a woman, and has opinions, and expects to be treated with respect, as far as I can tell), and according to The Guardian, the whole show shamefully appropriates the drug culture of people of colour (and only PoC) and turns it into a white middle class fantasy, and worse, isn't even an accurate depiction of the meth industry!
(Which I can vouch for. I've transcribed cases involving meth cooks and users, and either way, the transcript tends to come out looking like this:
SUSPECT: ...(INAUDIBLE)... fuckin' ...(INAUDIBLE)... cuntin' ...(INAUDIBLE)... fuck - - -
And let me tell you, I am SHOCKED and APPALLED that television, of all media, would enhance the truth.)
The actual point, however, of this post is this:
Yep. Good luck getting that one out of your head! And don't do meth. It's legit nasty.
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Date: 2013-01-12 10:29 pm (UTC)