this is what happens when geeks do scholarship

[lotesse]

Is it bad that Said's "Orientalism" is mainly making me think about Stargate SG1?

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[princessofgeeks]

lol

[lotesse]

I mean right? I think my brain is warped.

[princessofgeeks]

anything remotely related to stargate references makes me think of stargate. :).

[lotesse]

I keep reading along and just sort of squeaking "Language! Academic establishment! Exoticization! Egypt!"

[robin_arede]

having only seen the first film and been scarred for life but following sga posts on my flist, I'd say: it's almost inevitable!

[lotesse]

It's one of those things where I'm getting equal amounts of fanbrain "my show!" happy and "yeah, they really do have that problem, don't they?" And yeah, completely inevitable, alas.