![]() Now that she’s said goodbye to Lexa, Debnam-Carey-an amiable Australian who got her start on the showbiz docuseries Next Stop Hollywood-is eager to show off her zombie-slaying skills in the second season of Fear the Walking Dead. It became a positive thing, which is really the most important thing about it all.” “Just to think that it had such an impact on people. Though Debnam-Carey says it is “horrible to think people were obviously very truly affected by, negatively,” she’s proud of the way many fans have channeled their energies into raising $100,000 (and counting) for the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention service for LGBT youth. So these are huge-scale cultural and social barriers that we’ve established-and I guess now it’s time to start breaking them down.” I know that’s been a topic of conversation over the last couple of years. In a parallel sense as well, there’s the issue of black characters being killed off first. It becomes an issue of diversity and equality and race and gender. “It’s just so deeply rooted in our culture and there are so many levels that it trickles down from. “With any sort of minority, issues of ostracization or misrepresentation are clearly rampant,” the actress continues. So when it did have such a strong and passionate backfire response, no one was really ready for it. “I don’t think anyone really quite expected that reaction. “A social and cultural issue exposed itself with that episode,” she says. ![]() Sloppy, dismissive and tin-eared moves by a show or its personnel aren’t easy to bury or ignore these days, and fan engagement is a collaboration, not a spigot to be turned off whenever things get inconvenient.”ĭebnam-Carey, for her part, says she understands fans’ call to action-though she admits their impassioned reactions to her character’s death caught her off guard. It’s a reminder that every story turn and promotional effort should be thoroughly thought through. In an essay on the topic, TV critic Maureen Ryan put fans’ response in context, writing: “This is not a call for showrunners to pander to their audiences-far from it. Now, in retrospect, Rothenberg says he “would have done some things differently,” like distancing Clarke and Lexa’s sex scene from her death and not touting their relationship with misleading optimism on social media. Rothenberg has lost thousands of Twitter followers, while some have strategized ways of reducing the show’s intensely fan-driven presence on social media. The episode that aired the week after Lexa’s death was the lowest-rated in series history-rather than watch, fans got #LGBTfansdeservebetter to trend on Twitter during The 100’s time slot. ![]() The 100 showrunner Jason Rothenberg’s weeks-long silence on the issue, combined with the betrayal fans felt at what they perceived to be a meaningless death for one of TV’s few well-developed lesbian characters (whom Rothenberg had led fans to believe would be alive and well at season’s end), incited a kind of revolt. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |