Saturday, October 9, 2021

Indigenous Peoples' Day

I missed the announcement on Friday, but Biden declared Indigenous Peoples' Day while restoring land to some national monuments. It's great, though I wish he had replaced Columbus Day. This is a good first step.

So in belated celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day, here's a gif from CBS's Ghosts

(If the image doesn't show, Isaac, a white man, says "We can't let these invaders take our land" and Sasappis responds, "Do you hear it all? Do you hear the words you are saying?")

This is CBS's remake of the British show. The Native American character is new for the American version. I hope he gets more fleshed out as the show goes on. The show has a diverse cast, and I read that the writing staff is diverse too, so good for them. I like that they eliminated the UK romantic poet Thomas and transferred some of his characteristics onto other characters. His continual obsession with Alison annoyed me. So I hope the American show keeps finding new storylines and humor for its characters.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I absolutely agree that thank God they got rid of the Thomas character. I had a nagging feeling that they shipped Alison / Thomas more than they shipped Alison / Mike, who was the dumb, immature, useless husband. It was especially unfortunate because Mike was a POC and made me suspect it factored into the Brits' decisions.

Glad CBS left it all out. The production had gotten funnier the more it deviated from the source material.