A sexually active Asian male? On TV?
CVK
And he’s having sex with a white girl, no less? Hell has officially frozen over, folks! There’s been a lot of buzz about NBC’s new show, “The Book of Daniel.” I haven’t checked it out yet, but it sounds promising. TRA=transracially adopted. Here’s some info on the show from our good friend Eric Hamako:
I just watched the pilot episode of a new NBC Friday night comedy/drama called “The Book of Daniel.” Apparently it’s controversial with the Christian Right. The story involves the struggles of an Episcopalian priest, Daniel, with various contemporary issues, representing a more complex sense of morality than the Christian Right and commercial television generally acknowledge…
1. The priest’s family includes a transracially adopted Chinese American son.
2. The TRA son is very hunky and is represented as being heterosexual and sexually active.
3. The TRA son is in an interracial dating relationship with a White girl.
4. The White girl’s influential mother is against her daughter dating the TRA son because she doesn’t want “Oriental” babies “running around her Christmas tree.”
So, FYI, NBC’s “The Book of Daniel” has some TRA, interracial, and multiracial themes going on.
Ivan wrote:
Wow, a Chinese-American guy NOT portrayed as a foreign-accented eunuch?
STOP THE PRESSES!!!
Maybe we need to write NBC some “pat-on-the-back” letters for this inexplicable fluke! WTF?
Posted 12 Jan 2006 at 5:00 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
Actually, if you watch the show, you SHOULD.
Midseason series are notoriously cancelled, and religious shows? Doubly so. (Note, I SO do not consider 7th Heaven a religious show - their “theology” hurts my brain).
Why yes, I am a bitter “Miracles” fan, why do you ask?
Posted 13 Jan 2006 at 11:07 am ¶
Tom Adams wrote:
I wouldn’t have though a drama so focussed on Christianity would be so enjoyable. I also wouldn’t expect a show like that to be getting praised for their positive and unstereotypical portrayal of various non-White Anglo-Saxon, uh, Episcopalians. Thanks for the tip-off about the show; I really enjoyed the pilot.
“Apparently it’s controversial with the Christian Right.”
Are you kidding? They hate being reminded that not all Christians are horrible like them.
Posted 13 Jan 2006 at 5:41 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
As a liberal Catholic Christian, one of my favorite bumper stickers is “The Christian Right is neither.”
Posted 13 Jan 2006 at 11:28 pm ¶