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the folks on racialicious have a real problem with how in the background Astrid is. They are not happy with this at all.
It got a bit better as the season went on and she wasn't automatically used for every experiment.
I'm going to see to Wesley, see if he's still whimpering.
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le nubian - Sep 09, 2009 7:35:03 am PDT #9855 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Sep 09, 2009 7:39:07 am PDT #9856 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the folks on racialicious have a real problem with how in the background Astrid is
I don't think she's background because she's black. I just think they have written Walter so broadly, and Peter as his straight man that even Olivia tends to fade into the background in the lab unless she's the subject of the experiment--and Astrid never gets to leave the lab.
le nubian - Sep 09, 2009 7:48:37 am PDT #9857 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think they have a hard time with her in the show because with her skills, she should have been more visible.
I'm so used to POC being backgrounded in scifi that I mostly shrug now. I'm so pleased she didn't die.
Zenkitty - Sep 09, 2009 9:47:30 am PDT #9858 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm pretty sure I have a life-force-sucking computer.
When Pete got stuck, I said, "They need me! I have enough Wellbutrin in my blood to fight the Plath field long enough to go in there and drag him out!" It's like a superpower I wasn't born with, like an adamantium skeleton.
§ ita § - Sep 09, 2009 9:48:57 am PDT #9859 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was thinking Myka should flash him her boobies. That should get at least a momentary reaction.
Couldn't she have tackled him out of the effect? Wasn't it looking at the typewriter that set it off?
Kristen - Sep 09, 2009 9:55:47 am PDT #9860 of 30001
I thought it was being within the circle. Hence, my fence.
§ ita § - Sep 09, 2009 9:57:22 am PDT #9861 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought it was being within the circle
He looked at it and it got all wonky, which is why I thought it was set off by looking. Also, Myka or Claudia said something about them being sense-sensitive. Which is why I'd box them up.
Kristen - Sep 09, 2009 10:06:07 am PDT #9862 of 30001
I thought she'd said something about Pete "being in the circle." Though I could be remembering wrong what with all the snarking going on in our house.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 09, 2009 10:07:28 am PDT #9863 of 30001
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I know Badger was taking Artie to task about artifacts being destroyed, but in the case of things so dangerous that merely looking at them can result in calamity, I'd think they would make an exception and do away with the objects rather than store them.
§ ita § - Sep 09, 2009 10:26:30 am PDT #9864 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Did he break eye contact with the typewriter at any point? I think that the power of it didn't extend outside the circle, but I didn't think it was triggered until he looked at it.
I'd think they would make an exception and do away with the objects rather than store them
If there was any indication they were ever going to use the artifacts, or even investigate them once they'd gotten them, I could see the argument for keeping them, but they're just stocking what seems to be dangerous stuff. I mean, the dodgeballs kill, and they're just lying around like that?