The characters are listed from most to least dialogue. I accounted for characters with less than 2% dialogue. Part I with characters with more than 2% dialogue: X
Source: X
Breakdown into different demographics under the cut.
Season 1
2/13 (15,4%) of the characters are white, 11/13 (84,6%) are POC
8/13 (64,3%) of the characters are women, 5/13 (35,7%) are men
4/13 (30,7%) of the characters are MOC
Dialogue Overall
White characters speak 12,6%, WOC characters speak 87,4%
Female characters speak 64,2%, male characters speak 35,8%
Dialogue Per Character
White characters speak 0,8% on average
POC characters speak 1% on average
Female characters speak 1% on average
Male characters speak 0,9% on average
Recurring Characters
1/2 (50%) of the white characters were in Seasons 1-2
9/11 (81%) of the POC characters were in Seasons 1-2
5/8 (62.5%) of the female characters were in Seasons 1-2
5/5 (100%) of the male characters were in Seasons 1-2
Season 2
2/12 (16,6%) of the characters are white, 10/12 (83,4%) are POC
7/12 (58,3%) of the characters are women, 5/12 (41,7%) are men
3/12 (25%) of the characters are MOC
Dialogue Overall
White characters speak 13,1%, POC characters speak 86,9%
Female characters speak 65,3%, male characters speak 34,7%
Dialogue Per Character
White characters speak 0,8% on average
POC characters speak 1,1% on average
Female characters speak 1,2% on average
Male characters speak 0,9% on average
Recurring Characters
1/2 (50%) of the white characters were in Seasons 1-2
7/12 (58,4%) of the POC characters were in Seasons 1-2
4/7 (57,1%) of the female characters were in Seasons 1-2
3/5 (60%) of the male characters were in Seasons 1-2
The characters are listed from most to least dialogue. I accounted for characters with over 2% dialogue. "Emmy" refers to "Emmy Nomination". Part II with characters with less than 2% dialogue: X
Source: X
Breakdown into different demographics under the cut.
Season 1
7/11 (63.6%) of the characters are white, 4/11 (36.4%) are WOC
7/11 (63.6%) of the characters are women, 4/11 (36.4%) are men
0 MOC characters had over 2% dialogue in Season 1
Dialogue Overall
White characters speak 72,1%, WOC characters speak 27,9%
(Without Robby: White characters speak 54,3%, WOC characters speak 45,7%)
Female characters speak 52,6%, male characters speak 47,4%
(Without Robby: Female characters speak 72,2%, male characters speak 27,8%)
Dialogue Per Character
White characters speak 6,4% on average (Without Robby: 4,7%)
WOC characters speak 4,37% on average
Female characters speak 4,7% on average
Male characters speak 7,4% on average (Without Robby: 4,3%)
Recurring Characters
7/7 (100%) of the white characters will be featured in Seasons 1-3
2/4 (50%) of the WOC characters will be featured in Seasons 1-3
5/7 (71%) of the female characters will be featured in Seasons 1-3
4/4 (100%) of the male characters will be featured in Seasons 1-3
Emmy Nominations
3/7 (42.8%) of the white characters got an Emmy nomination
0/4 (0%) of the WOC characters got an Emmy nomination
1/7 (9%) of the female characters got an Emmy nomination
2/4 (50%) of the male characters got an Emmy nomination
Season 2
8/12 (66.6%) of the characters are white, 4/12 (33.4%) are WOC
7/12 (58.3%) of the characters are women, 5/12 (41.7%) are men
0 MOC characters had over 2% dialogue in Season 2
Dialogue Overall
White characters speak 71,6%, WOC characters speak 28,4%
(Without Robby: White characters speak 62,7%, WOC characters speak 37,3%)
Female characters speak 52,2%, male characters speak 47,8%
(Without Robby: Female characters speak 68,5%, male characters speak 31,5%)
Dialogue Per Character
White characters speak 5,6% on average (Without Robby: 4,2%)
WOC characters speak 4,4% on average
Female characters speak 4,6% on average
Male characters speak 5,9% on average (Without Robby: 3,7%)
Recurring Characters
7/8 (87.5%) of the white characters will be featured in Seasons 1-3
2/4 (50%) of the WOC characters will be featured in Seasons 1-3
5/7 (71%) of the female characters will be featured in Seasons 1-3
4/5 (80%) of the male characters will be featured in Seasons 1-3
Emmy Nominations
7/8 (87.5%) of the white characters got an Emmy nomination
1/4 (25%) of the WOC characters got an Emmy nomination
4/7 (57%) of the female characters got an Emmy nomination
4/5 (80%) of the male characters got an Emmy nomination
7/8 (87,5%) of the Emmy nominations went to recurring characters to be featured in Seasons 1-3
Why is it that white actors are the ones caught up in the waves when a series does a massive nominations sweep in general? And 26 nominations is one massive sweep that Hollywood voted for.
This is a list of the characters in order of most to least dialogue in Season 2, which seasons they were/will be in, and whether they were nominated or not:*
Robby, Seasons 1-3, NOMINATED
Dana, Seasons 1-3, NOMINATED
Langdon, Seasons 1-3, NOMINATED
Santos, Seasons 1-3
Whitaker, Seasons 1-3, NOMINATED
Al-Hashimi, Season 2-3, NOMINATED
McKay, Seasons 1-3, NOMINATED
King, Seasons 1-3, NOMINATED
Mohan, Seasons 1-2
Javadi, Seasons 1-3 (Rumored reduced role in Season 3)
Ogilvie, Season 2
Abbot, Seasons 1-3, NOMINATED
7/8 of the white characters with most dialogue in Season 2 got an Emmy nomination, with Ogilvie the only white character left out of the sweep.
In comparison, 1/4 of the POC characters with most dialogue in Season 2 got an Emmy nomination.
And speaking of the cast for season 2 of the series, 7/8 of the white characters with most dialogue have been/will be featured in all seasons so far. In comparison, 2/4 of the POC characters with most dialogue have been/will be featured in all seasons so far.
*(I accounted for characters with over 2% dialogue x)
In the aftermath of the Emmy nominations, and in conjunction with talking about The Pitt having a tendency to highlight white characters more than they tend to highlight POC:
I think it is worth noting that of the top 10 characters with most lines in season 2, Santos is the only POC character that was in a prominent role throughout seasons 1 and 2, and so far seems to have as prominent a role in season 3.
In comparison, there are 6 white characters (Robby, Dana, Langdon, Whitaker, McKay, King) who were in prominent roles throughout seasons 1 and 2, and so far seem to have as prominent roles in season 3.
is it wrong that i kinda wanna block someone because i dont like their writing and their fics interrupt my hourly fav tags scroll??
no, not really. i mean if you don't want to block, you can filter a tag they use on their posts. if you press on a certain tag they use on there that you don't mind filtering you can do that. if you don't know how, you just need to press on the tag, wait a couple of seconds and at the bottom is 'filter posts with this tag' it'll then be removed and you can scroll the tags.
I know you've got Falling Skies next on your list and I don't want to poop on your excitement, but the writing on that show isn't great. Neither is the acting, if I'm being brutally honest. It's a mid-show at best? HOWEVER!!! Noah does look insanely good in it, beard and bed head at its peak. I just... couldn't watch more than half of Season 1.
Saying that, do you perhaps know of any other genuinely great Noah stuff to watch? Besides The Pitt and ER, I actually don't know of anything else. I feel like after ER, his career kinda took a little bit of a downturn (and I don't say all this with negativity or hate, I’m just telling it as it is/how I see it). I love the guy very much, I love that he's so good at what he does, AND he makes use of his platform for nothing but good!
lmfaoooooo that's funny! i'm going in with low expectations for all of his projects i swear.
so the only shows i'm being recommended to watch are: the librarians, falling skies, and the red line. tbh id just go down his imdb and just see if you can find something somewhat decent!
From stuff of his I've seen through coincidence, I'd recommend the films White Oleander and Donnie Darko. Mind you, he has minor supporting roles in them. I really enjoyed the series Romanoff as well. He's one of the main characters in one episode as I recall.
Falling Skies was a slow starter that turned into a deeply silly alien series. Not to be taken too seriously. I couldn't get into Leverage: Redemption, it was just too boring for me, and though The Red Line has a great performance by Noah Wyle, I thought the other actors on the series tended to be quite clunky and stiff, as did the writing.
Robby is deeply mentally ill and we are not viewing him at his best
The series is made by three older men, so unconscious sexist and racist bias is likely
The writers' room has several woc and the series consults organisations consistently
It's important to be aware of who is let go of on the cast as the series progresses
The series is progressive, casting poc, disabled people, trans people, and allowing actors to shape their roles and bring their background and language into it
So far, most of the meatiest roles go to white actors
There's been a disconcerting amount of antisemitic rhetoric around Noah Wyle
The series has always been and will always be centered around a male Jewish doctor's mental health crisis
Samira's storyline has always been centered around her having trouble fitting in at an ER
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.
Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.
If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.
Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!
Since the notes on this post are also messed up: This post currently has: 149,280 notes in 13 hours. Of those notes, 2,217 are likes on Tumblr's original post. Tumblr, 1.4% of users engaging on this post have liked it.
This update will discourage true engagement and encourage harrassment. Why would we make posts if we can't see the engagement on them? Why would we post something if somebody with more followers can get all the engagement instead of us? Why would we post something if it could easily make someone harrass us by taking over our own post, all the while not even being made aware of it?
Tumblr, your core functions of reblog chains are elemental to the platform. The community-driven core users didn't sign up to this platform for a poor imitation of Twitter. And there's more to come? How about giving people the ability to disable comments on posts, because we will stop posting otherwise.
So few people are talking about this, but if you're in the EU, you should know, since this will directly affect your digital privacy and online anonymity.
EU chat control passed in the EU council november 2025 after having negotiated that scanning all EU citizen's messaging data should be voluntary for corporations rather than mandatory.
Chat control will pass onto the European parliament next. It's dressed as "law protecting children from online abuse" (x)
If passed as is, it means private messages would be indiscriminately mass scanned by US corporations, and age checks would be mandatory for everyone, ending the anonymity of the internet in the EU, basically. (x)
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