But it's not that Emmy I'm concerned with. As you heard under the rock, the television Emmy nominees were named today. The Wire, which has a passionate online liberal following, got shafted horribily, picking up only one writing nomination. SciFi's inexplicable piece of nirvanna in their programming sea of shit, Battlestar Galactica, garnered 6 nominations; one nomination in the same Best Drama writing catagory, another for a web Razor featurette, and 4 technical.
We knew the awards are crap, but this is . . anger-making. Which, to be honest, is probably not worth anger or outrage on my part. Fuck them, and their damn awards, and love the torrent.
A few things caught my eye though.
Wikipedia (yeah, I know) notes that SciFi might be to blame for BG's bad reception - "The SciFi Network selected "Six of One" as its' official 2008 Emmy submission for outstanding writing in a drama series. "Six of One" was also chosen as the official entry screening for Katee Sackoff (who plays Kara/Starbuck) as best supporting actress in a dramatic series." Was that the only submission they made for BG? What about Mary McDonnell? Edward James Olmos? Hell, how about Michael Fucking Hogan? If "Six of One" was the only submission made, the SciFi execs are confirmed idiots.
A commenter at AintItCool wrote the following:
The Wire should have swept . . And its absence suggests that at best the Emmy selection committee is old, at worst it's racially bigoted against shows featuring a mainly African American cast. Best Actor, Comedy or Drama: 0 African Americans. Best Actress, Comedy or Drama: 0 African Americans. Best Supporting Actor or Actress, Drama or Comedy: 1 African American. This is racist, it is inexcusable and worst of all it's WRONG. Not wrong as in morally, wrong as in factually. These people were assigned the task of picking the best tv show and they failed, and I'm sure their demographics had nothing to do with it.
It's not the first time that observation has been passed - HBO is no longer the land that Emmys overlook. That excuse has passed. Short of racism, and a thoroughly complex story that takes half a brain to understand, I can't see why the nominations committees overlooked The Wire so consistently.
3 comments:
I've heard people talk about The Wire. So, it's good?
*ducks*
As for BSG, I'm kinda bummed that Kara's been sidelined for the frikkin' Adama/Laura love story. Still, it's a better damn show than that one episode can describe. Emmys are always a yawn anyhow, once the red carpet hijinks are over.
But hey, I hear Lost got a buncha noms! Woohoo!
Don't look at me - I haven't seen it either. The Insufferable Drama Snobs love it. It's on my Net*cough*torrent*cough*Flix list. I have read and watched enough to understand that its multiracial in a way that shames that 90's euphemism.
Yeah, the IDSes are always going on about The Wire, I'm almost convinced to watch it. I picked up the first disc of Mad Men at Blockbuster because of the buzz from those dang snobs!
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