Perhaps fandom will be like, intelligent. Someday.
Wait, I get you. You're hinting that a segment of fandom think that all black women are like all other black women.
I suspect she'll wind up being more like Anji (in concept, at least) -- an intelligent, professional, modern woman. She seems to have the sort of face that lends itself to that kind of role, rather than "sassy". Roz always seemed to me to be a bit of a hardass.
You're hinting that a segment of fandom think that all black women are like all other black women.
It's a failure of the imagination more than anything else, fuelled by a lack of variety in TV characters. I have been guilty of exactly the same failure in the past, so can hardly gloat.
That said, my favourite was a comment somewhere which suggested Martha might perhaps be like Roz or Zoe off Firefly. Now superficially they are similar - businesslike warriors - but Zoe has a sense of humour, is two decades younger, married a White guy, and can shoot straight.
I find that suggestion weird, because there's not really much similarity. One looks happy and smiley, the other looks... like a cynical person with a large gun.
I know it's only a publicity photo, but that's my point. There's no way of knowing what she'll be like, and comparing her to another woman who looks vaguely like her?
From that argument, I could have said that Rose was going to be like Romana, because they're both young and blonde.
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Date: 2006-07-11 06:09 am (UTC)Look on the bright side. Perhaps she'll be like Harry.
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Date: 2006-07-11 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-11 07:34 am (UTC)[IS SPEECHLESS]
Perhaps Martha will be like Prof Ray Winstone!
What? They're both *human*, aren't they?
Oh, I see what you mean. Jury's still out on Winstone... =:o}
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Date: 2006-07-11 08:15 am (UTC)I'm tempted to say I hope she's like Ace, but I'm no longer thirteen, and I want Ace to be Ace and Martha to be Martha.
*I know how she fits into the Who 'verse, she just a big, empty, blank space beyond that.
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Date: 2006-07-11 12:58 pm (UTC)I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of that.no subject
Date: 2006-07-11 12:34 pm (UTC)Wait, I get you. You're hinting that a segment of fandom think that all black women are like all other black women.
I suspect she'll wind up being more like Anji (in concept, at least) -- an intelligent, professional, modern woman. She seems to have the sort of face that lends itself to that kind of role, rather than "sassy". Roz always seemed to me to be a bit of a hardass.
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Date: 2006-07-12 01:13 am (UTC)A bit? A BIT?!?!
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Date: 2006-07-12 04:13 pm (UTC)Roz Forrester is 19 metric tons of hardass packed in hardass juice and basted with a light hardass glaze, served with hardass onions and leeks.
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Date: 2006-07-13 02:06 am (UTC)It's a failure of the imagination more than anything else, fuelled by a lack of variety in TV characters. I have been guilty of exactly the same failure in the past, so can hardly gloat.
That said, my favourite was a comment somewhere which suggested Martha might perhaps be like Roz or Zoe off Firefly. Now superficially they are similar - businesslike warriors - but Zoe has a sense of humour, is two decades younger, married a White guy, and can shoot straight.
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-19 11:38 am (UTC)I know it's only a publicity photo, but that's my point. There's no way of knowing what she'll be like, and comparing her to another woman who looks vaguely like her?
From that argument, I could have said that Rose was going to be like Romana, because they're both young and blonde.
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Date: 2007-04-10 04:13 am (UTC)