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Apple TV "See" (self.Blind)
submitted by razzretina
A friend of mine just alerted me to this fresh garbage that's supposed to launch Apple's streaming service. It's Game of Thrones and Mad Max but with sighted people badly acting blind and of course the saviors of the world are sighted children. With an extra helping of "blindness is a curse and punishment from god" or whatever. It looks pretty bad to me and I thought some of you would enjoy the laugh and we can groan about tired blindness tropes in cinema never changing. :D
Okay it's so bad I can't even post a link. I'll put it in a comment below this.
Edit: I don't know if it's Bacon Reader or if the trailer is being quarantined to Youtube but I can't seem to post the link. I'm afraid you'll have to look it up manually. The comments were turned off on the trailer. Gee, I wonder what people could have possibly been saying? :D
Okay it's so bad I can't even post a link. I'll put it in a comment below this.
Edit: I don't know if it's Bacon Reader or if the trailer is being quarantined to Youtube but I can't seem to post the link. I'm afraid you'll have to look it up manually. The comments were turned off on the trailer. Gee, I wonder what people could have possibly been saying? :D
winkta 6 points 3y ago
my partner told me about it a few days ago, citing an article where they said they consulted with blind and low vision people for “authenticity”... you’d think authenticity would mean casting blind actors for once?
razzretina [OP] 3 points 3y ago
Or writing a story where blindness wasn't some sort of world ending curse that brought humanity back to the stone age. Ugh.
fungus_head 0 points 7m ago
Your comment makes no sense on several levels.
1. The plague killed a lot of people. Whose who survived, were blind. But even without that the mass killing alone would have brought global collapse of society.
2. Whole groups of people losing their sight DOES bring people back to the stone age, if it doenst actually outright end human life completely. Surely it does. Why wouldnt it?
3. You are implying that a scenario centered around a disabity affecting people on a mass-scale is distasteful because.. well, why? Why would it be distasteful? I dont understand that.
1. The plague killed a lot of people. Whose who survived, were blind. But even without that the mass killing alone would have brought global collapse of society.
2. Whole groups of people losing their sight DOES bring people back to the stone age, if it doenst actually outright end human life completely. Surely it does. Why wouldnt it?
3. You are implying that a scenario centered around a disabity affecting people on a mass-scale is distasteful because.. well, why? Why would it be distasteful? I dont understand that.
razzretina [OP] 1 points 7m ago
You're missing the point where I, a real live blind person, don't feel like watching yet another show that treats a life like mine as if it were the worst thing imaginable and only a sighted person can save me. I hope being this pedantic brings you something out of life. I don't really give a crap about the details of this show when the main theme is something unoriginal, has been done to death, and quite frankly sucks to watch when it's a bunch of sighted writers making up how terrible the world would be if it was more full of people like me. No thanks. I'd rather watch literally anything else.
Nandflash 2 points 3y ago
I've ranted about this show a few times to some friends. I'm annoyed just thinking about it, and the show isn't even out yet.
Now come more misconceptions from sighted people about what we can and can't do. maybe it could have been interesting if the whole story didn't revolve around protecting the newly born sighted saviors.
To be honest though, the fact that blind actors playing blind people doesn't happen very often never really bothered me. I don't know how many blind actors there are, and I don't know how good they are. But what I do know is that there are a lot less of them than there are sighted actors, so it makes sense that you wouldn't see them that often.
Now come more misconceptions from sighted people about what we can and can't do. maybe it could have been interesting if the whole story didn't revolve around protecting the newly born sighted saviors.
To be honest though, the fact that blind actors playing blind people doesn't happen very often never really bothered me. I don't know how many blind actors there are, and I don't know how good they are. But what I do know is that there are a lot less of them than there are sighted actors, so it makes sense that you wouldn't see them that often.
razzretina [OP] 1 points 3y ago
I had a friend way back who tried to get some gigs as an actor and her agent just said she couldn't because blind. The friend just looked her in the eye and asked which eye was blind. The agent couldn't tell. It's ridiculous.
But I'm with you. It's the content of this thing that gets on my nerves. It's like every bad blind trope and negative stereotype in one place, and that was just the god awful trailer.
But I'm with you. It's the content of this thing that gets on my nerves. It's like every bad blind trope and negative stereotype in one place, and that was just the god awful trailer.
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jrs12 1 points 3y ago
I know the guy they consulted with for this. I think he's done a pretty good job in past shows he's consulted for (Netflix's Daredevil). I always get my hopes up that there will be a great show that portrays all the facets of visual impairment in an authentic light. So far I've been mostly disappointed, but maybe this show will be different.
razzretina [OP] 3 points 3y ago
Just because they consult someone doesn't mean they'll use the advice. The trailer is chock full of really negative stereotypes and the premise itself leaves a lot to be desired.
jrs12 2 points 3y ago
Touche. I'm an optimist, so I hope it's good, but you're right. The media always seems to find a way to spin things the exact wrong way.
razzretina [OP] 2 points 3y ago
I've been let down far too consistantly when it comes to blind people in media to be able to see this as anything but a lot of bad stereotypes rolled in a bundle. Again. The premise itself already hits a lot of warning bells for me: world is destroyed because people go blind and can't function, sighted people even though they're babies are going to save the day, everyone who's blind is a baby killing villain except maybe the parents, etc. It doesn't look good from what I can tell and even my sighted friends aren't impressed by any of it.
jrs12 2 points 3y ago
I'm still totally going to watch the first episode. I was really excited by In The Dark because it seemed so counter culture. Like finally. We were gonna get that bad ass blind girl that wasn't a Mary Sue.... then I proceeded to vomit in my mouth with the first episode. I hope this show normalizes blindness, but we will have to wait and see. Wanna chit chat after the first episode release? I'd love to hear your take. Btw... what are your thoughts on the Toph character on Avatar the Last Airbender?
rkingett 1 points 3y ago
It sounds awesome! I'm not gonna make up my mind until I watch it myself.
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