Posts by Emma Hart
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Helen Miller,
BTW NZSL is the country's third official language - anyone tried finding a teacher or community classes to learn signing ?
A couple of schools in Chch used to offer it as a night class (before, y'know, the community education cuts) and Canterbury Parents of Deaf Children are currently running free classes at the Blind Foundation rooms. But then, Chch has a Deaf school, it's not as short on teachers and interpreters as other places.
My kids' school also received a pack (sort of) designed to enable teachers to offer NZSL to interested kids. Again, there are simply not enough signing teachers to offer it as part of the curriculum.
And through Deaf Aotearoa New Zealand you can buy signing videos or register for signing taster classes.
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Up Front: A Real Character, in reply to Sacha,
the test is even simpler for disabled characters
1) they exist
2) bonus points if they talk at all
3) and extra gold star if they're actually played by a disabled actor.Heh, I was going to be all, "Yeah, we weren't nit-picking on Joey Lucas, we were just fucking astounded to see her," but I can't think of a single thing wrong with that character.
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Up Front: A Real Character, in reply to JackElder,
but mostly it's basic Mandarin spoken with a somewhat odd accent.
And if it's being spoken as widely as English, it'd be in as wide a variety of accents.
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Actors, writers, and the show translator talking about Firefly's "Chinese". (Espenson calls it Mandarin.)
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Up Front: A Real Character, in reply to nzlemming,
Yup, me too. Plus the whole cannibal arc - blech (Not helped by the writer's strike in the middle of the season)
For me my first serious waver was Angela's Disappearing Bisexuality. But man, giving every female character a child is a sign a show is going really, really well, right?
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Up Front: A Real Character, in reply to nzlemming,
Pauley Perrette playing Abby Sciuto in NCIS?
I don't know the show well enough to make a call on whether they're doing "kinky = goth".
That’s why slamming Padme for being a terrible female character is so pointless, none of Lucas’ characters have any depth so what make Padma any shallower.
I was kind of hoping someone would point that out. Yes, she's a terrible character. That's because she's in the Star Wars prequels. Duh.
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Up Front: A Real Character, in reply to Russell Brown,
This also applies to characters on the autism spectrum, who tend to be presented on screen as a grab-bag of symptoms. It’s welcome that they appear in fiction now, but it’d also be nice if they were allowed to be more different.
Yes. I'd also like it if a poly/kinky character got more than the odd episode in a US crime drama. We're so bloody demanding.
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Up Front: A Real Character, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
No-one had to shoulder the burden of being everything a woman in fiction is supposed to be.
Yeah, this. And it's the same with LGBT characters, and non-White characters. If you've got more than one, you can show you know they're different. Just like people. Which is one of the things that really annoys me about the inclusion of River Tam in that 5 Worst list. Elizabeth Swann is The Girl. Padme is The Girl. River? Why is River in that list, and not Kaylee or Zoe or Inara?
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Also, not my photos in the main, but this year Megan did TARDISes.
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And with his little (but just as evil) knitted friend.
