Sci-Fi Commentary on "Serenity": Where are all the Asians?
The Sibling just forwarded me this link, which I found rather funny:
If I had a dollar for every science fiction perpetrator who used Asian languages as a signpost of the future, BUT NOT ASIAN PEOPLE ... well, I'd have a bunch of dollars. Take Joss Whedon ... please. . . . My beef is this: why would a man intelligent enough to read the Asian tiger on the wall (having all the characters in his future world speak an English/Chinese patois, and all of the spaceship names and call signs translated into Chinese on their hulls), be too stupid to include a SINGLE ASIAN CHARACTER in said world? . . . In the world of Serenity, Asians are literally inscrutable. We somehow rule the universe enough to get our main lingo (Chinese, natch) spoken everywhere, yet you can't scrut us. Anywhere. |
Well, the blogger does have a point. Come to think of it, I hadn't ever really thought about it, but he's right. Lots of Asian-influenced everything on the show, but no Asian characters of note, just a few Asian extras in the background here and there.
Well, time for lunch at Nerdworld. Maybe I'll go for some Space Ramen.