#noel garcia

Yearbook Challenge: Freshmen Edition Part 1

A few years ago, I worked at a DVD shop in London, which he entered asking if we sold blu-rays. I responded with all the human charisma of a dishrag that we did. Once he left, I told my co-workers in stunned surprise I’d just seen the bloke off Casualty. We gathered around the computer to google him, and all nodded in the affirmative that it had indeed been the bloke off Casualty.

I guess they were going for the angle of how covid affects bame and working class people more than upper class and white people. (the theory i saw was to do with vitamin d absorption) but yeah. we're really stuck with charlie while black characters continue to get written out left and right.

Yeah, I was really bothered by that too. I was saying to my family members while we were watching it that it must have been really awkward for Charles and Amanda to film that scene, given Amanda is biracial.

Connie’s definitely not as ignorant or privileged as the writers like to make her out to be. It’s frustrating that they keep ignoring that. She deserves much better writing than she keeps getting, and to not be portrayed as unaware on racial issues and needing to be lectured by Jacob - seriously, did anyone stop and consider that even if the character’s supposed to be white, that’s an uncomfortable scene to give to a biracial actress?

I do think the “BAME and/or working-class people are more affected” angle is the angle they were trying to go for, but they didn’t go for it very well. And it feels like salt in the wound that Noel has been treated as a background character for years, then when they finally give him screentime... it’s so he can die. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.