On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Matt Bear-Fowler <wakingdreaming@gmail.com> wrote:
--I want to like Ironside, but as a person with a physical disability, I'm pretty annoyed that they didn't get an actor with a physical disability to play the title role. We're out there. There are plenty of people who could do it well. I haven't actually sen the show yet, and I do plan to check it out. I'm eager to see how accurately living as a mobility impaired person is portrayed. I'm willing to give them at least a little slack, since I'm kind of pleased to see a mobility impaired character on television at all. But I'm going to be scrutinizing it fairly closely.Matt"I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I'd include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you've escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in.
I agree with you, but in this case I can forgive them because a lot of the story is told in flashback - before the main character became mobility impaired. So the actor had to be able to do all the physical activity the character was involved in before he was shot. The whole premise seems to be split between showing what kind of a cop he was before he got injured, and then how he's adapted to continue doing his job while paralyzed. There are still a lot of pitfalls they could blunder into, but so far, I've been impressed with how it's being handled.
Gwyn
Rain and sun shall feed me now,
and roots, and nuts, and wild things,
and rustlings in the midnight wood,
half-mad, like Myrddin, wandering.
--Terri Windling
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