Umm…I didn’t even think that till you said that…
There was no intention to have the Cro-Magnons represent any minority group, said his colleague, Josh Gordon.
“We’re aware that the pilot (episode) seems to lean a little bit more in that direction. But in the episodes that we’re coming up with now, we never saw them as, again, a stand-in for one group,” Gordon said.
“I think it’s really a show about acclimation more than anything, and that’s something that everybody deals with, doesn’t matter whether you are a minority or not,” producer Joe Lawson said.
But now, it’s all I can think about. And I’m not sure whether it’s more racist that the show is doing it or that people made the connection.
And what’s with the theft of the old Sliders Cromagg terminology?