Comments on: ABW’s TV Corner – Stargate: Atlantis and why I hate it

By: 12th PoC Carnival | Books @ the Hathor Legacy

12th PoC Carnival | Books @ the Hathor Legacy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:41:08 +0000

[...] also talks about SG:A here, breaking down the CoC timeline in Stargate Atlantis. Surprisingly, About.com also weighed in, [...]

By: Some thoughts on the representation of characters of colour on television « Uppity Brown Woman

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:24:06 +0000

[...] It’s also interesting that Teyla is the ‘mystical, soft spoken, yet fierce, beautiful, and powerful’ alien, a trope that is used with women of colour repeatedly, and Ronon is the silent alien who is a little trigger happy and sets people on edge when he walks into a room (hint: scary tribal warrior!). They are both characters from cultures apparently less advanced than Earth. I won’t even go into the part about 99% of the people from Earth are white. Angry Black Woman has a great post on this. [...]

By: Ami Angelwings

Ami Angelwings — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:34:40 +0000

I always get here too late :(

I wanted to say THANK YOU

I’m glad I’m not the ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THIS

Stargate (both SG-1 and Atlantis) seems to be rly subtly racist. :( I mean Atlantis is supposed to be this HUGE MULTINATIONAL THING, and let’s see, they have polish and french and british and canadian and american and russian and irish… hmmm

they certainly have a lot of nations… just.. y’know.. the white ones >.>

They have this habit of making their CoC be aliens . But what also rly bugs me is that who are the “bad gods”?

They’re the Egyptian, Chinese, African and Japanese gods. The good ones are the Norse and Camelot myth characters!

Worse than that the Ancients were ALL WHITE (as far as I know) and the first humans (white ppl evolve from black ppl? pah! impossible)

the gods that were “good” in egyptian/japanese/chinese/african/etc myths are still evil, while the evil characters in the cameloy myth (like morgan lefay) are good. :\

it’s stuff like that that rly hurts my enjoyment of the show completely!

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:33:13 +0000

I saw atlantis the 1st time when it was called deep space nine.

By: Morjana Coffman

Morjana Coffman — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:51:31 +0000

RE: “Ronan is a whole other problem. He’s the typical wild warrior man actors of color are often asked to play. He’s shows as overly aggressive and uncivilized. One of the first scenes he has on Atlantis proper is him in the cafeteria eating with his fingers.”

Ronon had been on the run from the Wraith (as the Wraith tracked him for sport) for seven years, traveling from planet to planet, trying to stay away from other people so that they wouldn’t become “collateral” damage.

I saw that scene portrayed as a man who hasn’t had a lot opportunities over seven years to eat something more than “fast” food — something Ronon could eat quickly enough so as to not risk capture.

The man was HUNGRY for heaven’s sake.

By: charlie

charlie — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:54:55 +0000

Manami Hara was born and raised in Tokyo Japan. She played the Asian scientist whose accent bothered you so much. You have to consider the possibility that this might have been her genuine Japanese accent.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:43:16 +0000

Oh yes! I want the Space African Fanfic! Squee!

By: the angry black woman

the angry black woman — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:55:49 +0000

another note – one day we’re going to find out that the Furlings (the other other ancient race) are a bunch of space Africans who took a look around the universe and said “Fuck this shit” and found a galaxy not inhabited by stupid white folks and their progeny.

By: the angry black woman

the angry black woman — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:53:55 +0000

you know, i have always wondered what was up with those two people. They show them looking all sad and stuff, but we never get to know, exactly, who they are and what is up with them. I kept waiting for that story to be told, but it was like “Hmm, we need some stuff here in the beginning, let’s just throw some random shit up in there.”

also, in the episode with Old!Elizabeth, there was one Asian-looking Ancient. and a LOT of white ones.

By: Kaylea

Kaylea — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:53:06 +0000

Rising, the first episode in the beginning shows 2 ancients who are clearly not white and in the first episode of this season Sheppard gathers up the people on Atlantis who have the gene and not all of them are white. The problem is that all the ones that have the gene that have major roles are all white.