I want to be able to praise Torchwood for Ianto and Gwen and criticise it for Tosh's stereotypical "techie Asian", and the habit they have of killing off women of colour (and storing them in REFRIGERATORS; oh comics fandom, I miss you) and for those two issues not to be conflated.
i somehow don't see why one wouldn't be able to discuss both of these things in relationship to torchwood? television shows have multiple and often contradictory meanings in them, so i find it entirely reasonable that torchwood's portrayal of race and ethnicity could have both helpful or not so helpful aspects to it [and i say "helpful" here to avoid "good"/"bad", which are such loaded terms].
i can't really speak to welsh issues because i don't know anything about them, but i think there are definitely problems with how torchwood portrays tosh and supporting characters of color.
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Date: 2008-01-28 11:58 pm (UTC)i somehow don't see why one wouldn't be able to discuss both of these things in relationship to torchwood? television shows have multiple and often contradictory meanings in them, so i find it entirely reasonable that torchwood's portrayal of race and ethnicity could have both helpful or not so helpful aspects to it [and i say "helpful" here to avoid "good"/"bad", which are such loaded terms].
i can't really speak to welsh issues because i don't know anything about them, but i think there are definitely problems with how torchwood portrays tosh and supporting characters of color.