#and they made the point that Zagreb kind of gets treated like it's a sovereign state as opposed to... a city

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#Jem and the Holograms #Danse Dvorak #Homeland Heartland #I was listening to the Jem Jam's episode on this episode recently #and they made the point that Zagreb kind of gets treated like it's a sovereign state as opposed to... a city #and it's like... yeah the writers *do* treat it as such #also I get that This Was The '80s and the geopolitics of Eastern Europe and the Balkans were Very Different #but... they couldn't have chosen to have the Dvoraks come from a village a *bit* closer to Zagreb? #like even in the '80s Bled was in a different republic from Zagreb #which y'know is *fine* except that Jem's de jure excuse for travelling to Bled is for 'local colour' when... m'lady... that's not local #like if *I* were the antagonist of the episode I would absolutely call her on that #'ma'am that's in an entirely different SR. that's not local.' #'I get wanting to get footage of the Alps but do bear in mind that that's not local ma'am.' #'what do you really want here ma'am?' #('Bio you're overthinking an episode of the 1980s doll cartoon' indeed I am) #honestly though like... imagine if Danse had appeared in the comics #imagine the character arc she could have vis-à-vis first-gen diasporic hyphenated identity #imagine what we could have had #we could have had it aaall #long tags