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<blockquote data-quote="payn" data-source="post: 8876258" data-attributes="member: 90374">Right on. I think the fridge effect is overused and trap writers often fall into. Sometimes that's to lean into the social status (the victim is a double, triple, etc... victim!) so its that much more important for the cop to get vengeance for his X,Y,Z partner. I dont hear many people talking about The Expanse now, but I think people will in the future. This show had representation in all sorts of ways. Leaders, officers, workers, soldiers, poor, criminals, scientists, terrorists, etc.. You had gay male married couples, and a polyamory relationship. None of these things had anything to do with the conflict or their place in the story. They were just ordinary folks living ordinary lives in all sorts of ways. This normal representation is something Hollywood really fails to represent in a natural way. Dont get me wrong, I think its important to tell stories about discrimination that folks face, but it doesn't have to be the source of every conflict in every story. Also, it takes more than a token effort to show normalcy, which is greatly needed at the moment, IMO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="payn, post: 8876258, member: 90374"] Right on. I think the fridge effect is overused and trap writers often fall into. Sometimes that's to lean into the social status (the victim is a double, triple, etc... victim!) so its that much more important for the cop to get vengeance for his X,Y,Z partner. I dont hear many people talking about [I]The Expanse[/I] now, but I think people will in the future. This show had representation in all sorts of ways. Leaders, officers, workers, soldiers, poor, criminals, scientists, terrorists, etc.. You had gay male married couples, and a polyamory relationship. None of these things had anything to do with the conflict or their place in the story. They were just ordinary folks living ordinary lives in all sorts of ways. This normal representation is something Hollywood really fails to represent in a natural way. Dont get me wrong, I think its important to tell stories about discrimination that folks face, but it doesn't have to be the source of every conflict in every story. Also, it takes more than a token effort to show normalcy, which is greatly needed at the moment, IMO. [/QUOTE]

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