Comments on: Pathfinder: Dances With Vikings http://www.popcultureshock.com/pathfinder-dances-with-vikings/41355/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez http://www.popcultureshock.com/pathfinder-dances-with-vikings/41355/comment-page-1/#comment-59383 Guy LeCharles Gonzalez Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:21:31 +0000 http://www.popcultureshock.com/pathfinder-dances-with-vikings/41355/#comment-59383 Bleh. These are the kinds of movies that get made by [usually] well-intentioned white folk who believe mainstream America will only be interested in stories about other cultures if told via a white protagonist's POV. Unless, of course, it's a comedy or action movie. It all goes back to Cheryl's "Make the f**king comics!" Bleh. These are the kinds of movies that get made by [usually] well-intentioned white folk who believe mainstream America will only be interested in stories about other cultures if told via a white protagonist’s POV. Unless, of course, it’s a comedy or action movie.

It all goes back to Cheryl’s “Make the f**king comics!”

]]> By: Katherine Dacey-Tsuei http://www.popcultureshock.com/pathfinder-dances-with-vikings/41355/comment-page-1/#comment-59251 Katherine Dacey-Tsuei Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:03:02 +0000 http://www.popcultureshock.com/pathfinder-dances-with-vikings/41355/#comment-59251 There ought to be a five-year moratorium on these heroic white person movies, whether we're talking about noble Englishmen ending the slave trade, noble young women bringing Hemingway to the hood, or Tom Cruise pretending he's a samurai. The most ridiculous thing about this project is its willful ahistoricity: a Viking with identity issues?! In pre-contact New York?! The Vikings didn't make it much further south than Newfoundland, and never had much if any presence in North America because they were too busy fighting with the Slavs and Celts. There ought to be a five-year moratorium on these heroic white person movies, whether we’re talking about noble Englishmen ending the slave trade, noble young women bringing Hemingway to the hood, or Tom Cruise pretending he’s a samurai.

The most ridiculous thing about this project is its willful ahistoricity: a Viking with identity issues?! In pre-contact New York?! The Vikings didn’t make it much further south than Newfoundland, and never had much if any presence in North America because they were too busy fighting with the Slavs and Celts.

]]> By: Kayode Kendall http://www.popcultureshock.com/pathfinder-dances-with-vikings/41355/comment-page-1/#comment-58734 Kayode Kendall Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:13:42 +0000 http://www.popcultureshock.com/pathfinder-dances-with-vikings/41355/#comment-58734 What can I say. It's hard out there for us coloreds! What can I say. It’s hard out there for us coloreds!

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