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 Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:52 pm
If you live in LA and enjoy (or not, it may not matter) the television show "NCIS" (Perhaps NCIS LA, I don't know), I would follow this link, and put together my best outfit!
If you're chosen, I expect a day by day filming journal, complete with photos. I am quite the fan, but I have the misfortune of living on the opposite side of the country...
Hurry! It's this Saturday!
I TAKE IT ALL BACK.
The filthy scum... go here for G.D. Falksen's full review, or here for the full episode, "Random on Purpose".
I cannot believe how they've treated us.
EDIT: Another source for you. Jeff VenderMeer's interview with "Speed Weed", the writer for NCIS LA. It's titled "Speed Weed Comes Clean: Steampunk and NCIS: Los Angeles". Some insight into what he was- and was not- thinking.
(Note: When I first viewed this page, it asked me to print. When I hit cancel, it closed the page. If you run into the same problem, I have a copy of the interview saved, and I can post the text here.)
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:41 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:57 am
Sad Panda: I love NCIS, but I'm also on the other side of the country.
Happy Panda: By the cogs! They're going to represent steampunk in NCIS!
Sad Panda: I hope they don't screw it up like CSI did the furries.
I'm a mixed emotion panda.
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:50 am
I can only imagine Gibbs' reaction... But NCIS doesn't focus on putting down cultural groups. Think back to the episodes with the transgenders. Yes, Kate harped on Tony for kissing her, but they didn't try and put the lifestyle down.
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:07 pm
Blue- Looking back, you had a point. I'd like to think NCIS DC would have done better, but that's just blind love of that series speaking. If they had done such a thing... I'm ashamed that Abby was involved.
I am to angry to compose another rant, so I'll just use what I wrote on Facebook.
Quote: I disliked NCIS LA before, but now... Now I am deeply, deeply offended by their portrayal of steampunk. An up-and-coming genre known for its devotion to chivalry and etiquette, and you want to smear its first national appearance with despicable behavior utterly uncharacteristic of everything we stand for? The AUDACITY of you MORONS...
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:24 pm
Deserted...  I commented in the Facebook group about this also ^^ I really expected better from them, TV seems to just.. kinda screw up what subcultures are like.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:56 pm
Since when do we drive hot rods?
Okay, I do. But mine doesn't have an nasty flame detail.
Ugh. Did they even try with the outfits? It's like they just handed out goggles to a bunch of night club lurker wannabes.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:42 pm
What the s**t is this s**t
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:26 am
Zahmen II What the s**t is this s**t 'S crazy s**t.
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:33 am
Iseult Afire The filthy scum... go here for G.D. Falksen's full review, or here for the full episode, "Random on Purpose". I cannot believe how they've treated us. EDIT: Another source for you. Jeff VenderMeer's interview with "Speed Weed", the writer for NCIS LA. It's titled "Speed Weed Comes Clean: Steampunk and NCIS: Los Angeles". Some insight into what he was- and was not- thinking. Forgive me for being defamatory to the mainstream "entertainment" industry, but were you honestly expecting anything better? Granted I've run into a few "furries" who flaunt their... unusual sexual preferences (and no offense to the furry community) and act as though they were spokespeople for furry fandom in general, thus giving the furry subculture in general a bad image, I've seen this over and over again--mainstream media isn't interested in those of us who can hold an intelligent conversation and have day jobs as bookstore cashiers, pizza delivery drivers, or what have you, they're looking for the "freak of the week" to exploit, the side show having mostly gone the way of the passenger pigeon.
To the (aptly-named) "muggles", Star Trek fans are all "Trekkies", Goths are Satan-worshiping blood-drinking freaks, and now Steampunks, it seems, are an offshoot of the Goth movement, despite the fact that Goth and Steampunk, while sharing some cross-pollination, are different movements altogether. Anything that doesn't play up the derogatory stereotypes of different subcultures is to be ignored by the mainstream as an aberration, when in reality, the more freakish/extreme members of the subculture tend to be the aberrations. Case in point: Rod Ferrell and his "Vampire Clan", who could easily have given mainstream players of Vampire: the Masquerade a serious bad name had White Wolf Game Studios not learned from TSR's mistakes during the 80's with the "D&D is Satanic" crowd.
Add to this the fact that most mainstream shows are not written by anyone who knows anything beyond the most rudimentary information about a given subculture (as the interview cited above shows:
Speed Weed I personally know nothing about Goth, so I asked Greg, who is younger and a lot hipper than I am. He instantly landed on the SteamPunk aesthetic, and I instantly got it: it’s lighter than true Goth, just like L.A. is lighter than D.C., and just like Abby, as a character is lighter than classic Goth.
[emphasis added]), and you have a lot of negative stereotypes and incorrect assumptions being pawned off as "gospel truth" about a given group. And since the majority of mainstream viewers know even less about the subculture in question than the writers do, the end result is negative stereotypes being perpetuated at the expense of those of us who are part of that subculture, much to our chagrin and despite our best efforts to educate the mundanes...
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Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:51 pm
Hmm, had we ought to write perturbed letters to the producers--though perhaps letters to the writers would be more effective--and request a recant of their offense claims? An informative little barrage of offended loyal viewers?
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:00 pm
I would certainly agree, though obtaining such contact information may be something of a hassle... I'll look into it, though.
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