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[dreamer_easy]

Remark on New Earth and race from Lloyd Rose, posted at her request:

I was relieved to see, when the zombies swarmed the hospital, that at least one black person was still alive 5 billion years from now. Especially as there were no Asians, no Latin or Central Americans, no Pakistanis, no Arabs--groups among whom, for non-speaking, boil-infested roles, actors could probably have been found. I was reminded of Richard Pryor's comment after seeing "Star Wars" : "They [white people] finally got rid of us!"

Interesting point, especially since the show has generally been doing reasonably well on that front. Comments, folks? (Lloyd can read 'em here.)

Comments

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

yeah... found it here's the bugger (http://doctorwho.time-and-space.co.uk/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=2&pos=920).

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

So perishes my cut-in theory!

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

It was a good theory, and could still stand true for the asian lady at the beginning. we only ever see the one shot of her face, and the over-shoulder of Doc and Rose... you can't tell jack about it from that. I think it may just be one of those things...

From a purely aesthetic point, the paler the face to begin with, the easer it is to make people look like death. Unless you go for pretty major prosthetics. Yeah that probably sounds racist, but look at it from a makeup POV.

Of course, we could possibly be making far more of this than there actually is. And whats there is whats there because they're the people who passed the shuffling and moaning audition...