History DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/TheGifted'':

** Willow and Tara's break up is treated like a divorce with [[HasTwoMommies Dawn as their child]]. When Tara and Dawn go for a movie and shakes in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E9Smashed Smashed]]", Tara assures Dawn that "I will always be there for you" and that her moving out had nothing to do with Dawn.

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'': Cody grows insecure about Bailey saying she doesn't think he's funny and has been faking his laughter at his jokes. It's framed as a GRatedSex reference to women [[FakeOrgasm faking orgasms]].

--->'''Jerry:''' You're not gettin' any skin, Kramer! ''(walks out)''
--->'''Kramer:''' ...Well, this has all been one big tease!

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E02MapsAndLegends Maps and Legends]]", the circumstances of the failed Romulan evacuation are fleshed out, including the fact that several species threatened to leave the Federation if they helped them. This episode was released on the day that the UK left the EU, [[RippedFromTheHeadlines one of the reasons being xenophobia]].

%% *** The song doesn't emphasise the word 'complete' like that. This is reaching for something that isn't there - it was a deliberately romantic song in a musical episode. Especially considering Season 6 was the point where Joss Whedon considered the show to have moved a little further than 'use spell as metaphor for sex'. In that same scene, they pretty much SHOW that Tara is...below Willow, so to speak. Even 'spread beneath my Willow tree' is meant in the romantic (rather than base) sense since the scene's visuals wouldn't match if it wasn't.
*** Appropriately mocked by Xander during Willow's dream in "[["[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E22Restless Restless]]":

** The Narkina 5 plot is very much based on the Holocaust. Prisoners are forced to build components for the Imperial military day in and day out. Kino Loy is a prisoner who has been placed in charge of the other prisoners, much like the Jewish ''Kapos''. The Imperial guards also have no regard for the lives of their prisoners, and kill an entire floor when they accidentally learn that the ones who get "released" are actually shipped to other prisons.

* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Mon and Vel's shared response to Leida being with the Chandrilan traditionalists evoke the worries and fears of seeing a family member joining a fundamentalist movement or a cult. Additionally, Leida being the immigrant child of two Chandrilans who live on Coruscant and embracing the more questionable aspects of Chandrilan customs also brings to mind how children of immigrants in real life tend to embrace and make their ancestry a large part of their identity, sometimes even if the customs they choose to embrace are ones their parents disapprove of and maybe even emigrated to escape.

** Many episodes have Teal'c distrusted and feared by the people SG-1 encounters for being a Jaffa (who [[EvilOverlord the Goa'uld]] use for their armies), which is very {{unfortunate|Implications}} given his actor Creator/ChristopherJudge is black and all the characters expressing this fear are played by white people. Apparently the writers realised this and inverted it in one episode, where SG-1 assume this is why the people on the Planet of the Week are wary around Teal'c, only to turn out they're [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Space Nazis]] and they really ''do'' revile Teal'c because he's black.

** In the season six episode "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E10Wrecked}} Wrecked]]", Willow gets addicted to visiting an extremely powerful wizard by the name of Rack. He's referred to as "dealing" and Willow's experiences are more than a little trippy. The people in the lobby are all strung-out and when Willow leaves with Dawn, her eyes are dark and she's a little "off." To make matters worse, Willow treats the demon as a hallucination. Combining the "awakening lesbianism = magic" and "drugs = magic" metaphors makes for some UnfortunateImplications, and it also got a lot of criticism for there being no subtlety to the analogy; it literally just comes off like a story about drugs with "magic" search-and-replaced onto it.

** "Envoy of the Nonmalts", in which Dan and Ultra Garrison encounter a race of submarine humanoids named the Nonmalts who state that they are the original inhabitants of Earth, but were driven from their homes by human invaders, and declare war on humans when they begin building underwater settlements. However, UG refuses to believe any of their claims and kill all the Nonmalts. If you're reminded of the Native Americans...[[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement well, let's just say]] other peoples have had [[ValuesResonance similar]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyuan_people experiences]].

* Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower:

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything/TheBoys2019
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything/InterviewWithTheVampire2022

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** The romance between Louis de Pointe du Lac (who is biracial, specifically French and African descent) and Lestat de Lioncourt (a Frenchman) carries an uncomfortable colonial subtext. Although the series begins in 1910 New Orleans and France no longer has a presence in North America, France remains a colonial power that controls colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia.
*** Lestat is a rich Frenchman who would've benefited at least indirectly from colonization, and he continues the trend that some Frenchmen indulge in of romanticizing and eroticizing their mixed race/non-Caucasian lovers. A famous example of this is the French poet Creator/CharlesBaudelaire whose longtime mistress and muse was Jeanne Duval, who was Haitian-born with both French and African ancestry. In Baudelaire's poem "[[https://fleursdumal.org/poem/132 Le Chat]]", he sensuously describes a beautiful brown cat -- the brown shade alludes to Duval. This mirrors Lestat's [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive constant praise of Louis' beauty]] and finding [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin]] alluring.
*** While Lestat is in love with Louis and treats him with far greater respect than white Americans do, Lestat is not immune from the prejudices that come with his French background. Louis points out in the second episode that as a Creole, he's at a disadvantage compared to a full-blooded French person in France, and he believes that Lestat is at least subconsciously acting on his sense of French superiority because Louis hates it when Lestat refers to him as a "fledgling," which Louis equates with being called a slave.
*** At the beginning of the third episode, Lestat enjoys learning about the history of Jackson Square, which he loves, because of its links to France, as it was designed after the Place des Vosges in Paris, it was formerly known as Place d'Armes (Lestat even prefers the original French name), and it was where the Louisiana Purchase was signed. However, he feels that France had sold the territory far too cheaply to the USA ("Penny-wise, franc foolish"). While not stated explicitly, his underlying musing is if New Orleans was still under French control, he wonders what his relationship with Louis would be like if the latter was born under the French flag instead of the American one. Louis abruptly stops Lestat's train of thought by informing his boyfriend that runaway slaves were decapitated here and their heads were placed on the iron gates as a warning. France had participated in the slave trade, so it was just as guilty as the USA when it comes to the atrocities committed against Louis' African ancestors. Naturally, Louis is annoyed that Lestat is idealizing ''La Nouvelle-Orléans'' under French rule, and while in this hypothetical scenario, Louis' ''Créole'' heritage would most probably be acknowledged (unlike America's OneDropRule), he's well-aware that Lestat would have a lot of power over him, especially if ''Nouvelle-France'' (which Louisiana was a part of) remained a French colony instead of an independent country.
*** The fifth episode demonstrates that Lestat is a DomesticAbuser and an AbusiveParent, and his pummeling of Louis into a bloody pulp brings to mind a white master punishing his disobedient slave by torturing him almost to the point of death, especially when Lestat is dragging a wounded Louis (who almost looks like he had been flogged) by the chin with just his razor-sharp vampire fingernails (which are stand-ins for hooks), which leaves behind a long trail of Louis' blood on the floor. In an abusive relationship, the abuser tends to behave like they "own" their partner, and Lestat is "disciplining" Louis for not loving him enough (or not showing him enough "deference"). Although their vampire daughter Claudia (who is also biracial and is analogous to a mixed race child born from an interracial union) was spared the worst of Lestat's temper, she could have died if she were human when he throttled her. In the preview for the sixth episode, Claudia telepathically tells Louis, "We're [Lestat's] slaves, and I shall free us both."
*** Louis and Lestat's romance being rooted in French colonialism is illustrated in a [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e005d85d0a57212671a4811322e31db3/34f8dd0ee6cbd76d-89/s540x810/82e0be3bcc0ddb50ea2866f2265e49e524754dae.gif scene from the seventh episode]] where they're dancing together while dressed in lavish 17th-century French period costumes. This is arguably the era when France was at the peak of its power, and the French elite who wore this type of clothing profited the most from the exploitation of their colonies. The contrast of Louis' brown skin against his white outfit is a visual reminder that he wouldn't even ''exist'' without French colonialism (the ugly implication being that somewhere in his family tree, he has at least one French ancestor who likely raped a female slave). Lestat represents the side of privilege where Frenchmen could "sample" (Lestat's own word) any person under their control, although he's a "gentler" [[note]]only in comparison to an actual slave owner because Louis is a victim of Lestat's psychological and physical DomesticAbuse, plus Lestat was also brutal to Lily, a prostitute whom he had murdered after having sex with her; like Louis, she's also biracial and a "misfit beauty" in Lestat's eyes[[/note]] variation of the same theme in a time when slavery has been outlawed. Moreover, Lestat is positioning his arm around Louis' waist, which denotes that the latter is the [[MasculineFeminineGayCouple "woman" in their relationship]]; even European women had very few rights during the colonial period, let alone those who weren't Caucasian, so it further highlights the inherent inequalities between Louis and Lestat.
** French speakers understand that ''un petit coup'' ("the little drink") was inspired by ''la petite mort'' ("the little death"), the French expression for an orgasm. It can be inferred that Louis experienced an orgasm through Lestat's KissOfTheVampire during TheirFirstTime.
** Because Lestat and Louis are LoverAndBeloved, the instruction the former imparts to the latter in the second episode has a sexual connotation (just replace the word "blood" with a part of the male anatomy).
--->'''Lestat''': No, you don't bite the blood, you suck it. Yes, yes, that's better. Good.
** Lestat realizes that Louis is reluctant to kill humans because "You're ashamed of what we are." He's referring to them being vampires, but because Louis is a ClosetGay, there's a definite undercurrent of Louis feeling some degree of shame over his homosexuality (and by extension, his relationship with Lestat). He's also embarrassed to be labelled as a vampire in a public setting, just as he would being called "gay" or "queer."
--->'''Louis''': Maybe I'm just pondering what I am.\\
'''Lestat''': For the infinitesimal time, you're a vampire.\\
'''Louis''': Could you not use the word in my place of business?
** After accidentally killing her FirstLove and being forced by Lestat to watch his body burn, Claudia opens up the sealed skylight that lets in the sun and puts her arm into the light to watch it burn while she screams in pain and grief. The allusion to self-harm is clear.
** In episode 5, Claudia watching as Lestat and Louis violently fight and Lestat overpowers him, beating him within an inch of his life, is essentially a child witnessing a scene of domestic violence by their parent brought to its fantastical extreme.
** Lestat's traumatic recollection of how he was kidnapped, imprisoned, and turned by Magnus is reminiscent of a victim being taken by a rapist/serial killer who targets young, blond, blue-eyed men with an athletic build.
--->'''Lestat''': His name was Magnus. He took me from my room in Paris, as I kicked and screamed. He kept me for a week, locked in a room full of corpses... some freshly killed, some bloated and black. But they all looked like me... my coloring, my physique. My own eyes staring back at me from rotting faces. He fed on me every night. And then he put me back in the tower with the look-alike corpses. I thought for sure I'd be one of them, but instead he turned me into this. [...] I cried. I called to God. I didn't want this.

** In the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E01SympathyForTheDevil Sympathy for the Devil]]", Dean readily forgives Sam for (inadvertently) freeing Lucifer, but [[IncestSubtext remains righteously angry at Sam because Sam chose his demon lover Ruby over Dean]] . . . as a [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow hunting partner.]]

*** Louis and Lestat's romance being rooted in French colonialism is illustrated in a [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e005d85d0a57212671a4811322e31db3/34f8dd0ee6cbd76d-89/s540x810/82e0be3bcc0ddb50ea2866f2265e49e524754dae.gif clip from the trailer]] where they're dancing together while dressed in lavish 17th-century French period costumes. This is arguably the era when France was at the peak of its power, and the French elite who wore this type of clothing profited the most from the exploitation of their colonies. The contrast of Louis' brown skin against his white outfit is a visual reminder that he wouldn't even ''exist'' without French colonialism (the ugly implication being that somewhere in his family tree, he has at least one French ancestor who likely raped a female slave). Lestat represents the side of privilege where Frenchmen could "sample" (Lestat's own word) any person under their control, although he's a "gentler" [[note]]only in comparison to an actual slave owner because Louis is a victim of Lestat's psychological and physical DomesticAbuse, plus Lestat was also brutal to Lily, a prostitute whom he had murdered after having sex with her; like Louis, she's also biracial and a "misfit beauty" in Lestat's eyes[[/note]] variation of the same theme in a time when slavery has been outlawed. Moreover, Lestat is positioning his arm around Louis' waist, which denotes that the latter is the [[MasculineFeminineGayCouple "woman" in their relationship]]; even European women had very few rights during the colonial period, let alone those who weren't Caucasian, so it further highlights the inherent inequalities between Louis and Lestat.

*** The fifth episode demonstrates that Lestat is a DomesticAbuser and an AbusiveParent, and his pummeling of Louis into a bloody pulp brings to mind a white master punishing his disobedient slave by torturing him almost to the point of death, especially when Lestat is dragging a wounded Louis (who almost looks like he had been flogged) by the chin with just his razor-sharp vampire fingernails (which are stand-ins for hooks), which leaves behind a long trail of Louis' blood on the floor. In an abusive relationship, the abuser tends to behave like they "own" their partner, and Lestat is "disciplining" Louis for not loving him enough (or not showing him enough "deference"). Although their vampire daughter Claudia (who is also biracial and is analogous to a mixed race child born from an interracial union) was spared the worst of Lestat's temper, she could have died when he throttled her, and it's Louis who saves her. In the preview for the sixth episode, Claudia telepathically tells Louis, "We're [Lestat's] slaves, and I shall free us both."

*** The fifth episode demonstrates that Lestat is a DomesticAbuser and an AbusiveParent, and his pummeling of Louis into a bloody pulp brings to mind a white master punishing his disobedient slave by torturing him almost to the point of death, especially when Lestat is dragging a wounded Louis (who almost looks like he had been flogged) by the chin with just his razor-sharp vampire fingernails (which are stand-ins for hooks), which leaves behind a long trail of Louis' blood on the floor. In the preview for the sixth episode, their vampire daughter Claudia (who is also biracial) telepathically tells Louis, "We're [Lestat's] slaves, and I shall free us both."

*** Louis and Lestat's romance being rooted in French colonialism is illustrated in a [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e005d85d0a57212671a4811322e31db3/34f8dd0ee6cbd76d-89/s540x810/82e0be3bcc0ddb50ea2866f2265e49e524754dae.gif clip from the trailer]] where they're dancing together while dressed in lavish 17th-century French period costumes. This is arguably the era when France was at the peak of its power, and the French elite who wore this type of clothing profited the most from the exploitation of their colonies. The contrast of Louis' brown skin against his white outfit is a visual reminder that he wouldn't even ''exist'' without French colonialism (the ugly implication being that somewhere in his family tree, he has at least one French ancestor who likely raped a female slave). Lestat represents the side of privilege where Frenchmen could "sample" (Lestat's own word) any person under their control, although specifically in Lestat's case, he's a "gentler" [[note]]only in comparison to an actual slave owner because Louis is a victim of Lestat's psychological and physical DomesticAbuse, plus Lestat was also brutal to Lily, a prostitute whom he had murdered after having sex with her; like Louis, she's also biracial and a "misfit beauty" in Lestat's eyes[[/note]] variation of the same theme in a time when slavery has been outlawed. Moreover, Lestat is positioning his arm around Louis' waist, which denotes that the latter is the [[MasculineFeminineGayCouple "woman" in their relationship]]; even European women had very few rights during the colonial period, let alone those who weren't Caucasian, so it further highlights the inherent inequalities between Louis and Lestat.

*** The fifth episode demonstrates that Lestat is a DomesticAbuser and an AbusiveParent, and his pummelling of Louis into a bloody pulp brings to mind a white master punishing and torturing his disobedient slave almost to the point of death. In the preview for the sixth episode, their vampire daughter Claudia (who is also biracial) telepathically tells Louis, "We're [Lestat's] slaves, and I shall free us both."

*** Louis and Lestat's romance being rooted in French colonialism is illustrated in a [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e005d85d0a57212671a4811322e31db3/34f8dd0ee6cbd76d-89/s540x810/82e0be3bcc0ddb50ea2866f2265e49e524754dae.gif clip from the trailer]] where they're dancing together while dressed in lavish 17th-century French period costumes. This is arguably the era when France was at the peak of its power, and the French elite who wore this type of clothing profited the most from the exploitation of their colonies. The contrast of Louis' brown skin against his white outfit is a visual reminder that he wouldn't even ''exist'' without French colonialism (the ugly implication being that somewhere in his family tree, he has at least one French ancestor who likely raped a female slave). Lestat represents the side of privilege where Frenchmen could "sample" (Lestat's own word) any person under their control, although specifically in Lestat's case, he's a "gentler" [[note]]a relative term, since he's certainly gentler to Louis, but definitely NOT to Lily, a prostitute whom Lestat had murdered after having sex with her; like Louis, she's also biracial and a "misfit beauty" in Lestat's eyes[[/note]] variation of the same theme in a time when slavery has been outlawed. Moreover, Lestat is positioning his arm around Louis' waist, which denotes that the latter is the [[MasculineFeminineGayCouple "woman" in their relationship]]; even European women had very few rights during the colonial period, let alone those who weren't Caucasian, so it further highlights the inherent inequalities between Louis and Lestat.

*** Louis and Lestat's romance being rooted in French colonialism is illustrated in a [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e005d85d0a57212671a4811322e31db3/34f8dd0ee6cbd76d-89/s540x810/82e0be3bcc0ddb50ea2866f2265e49e524754dae.gif clip from the trailer]] where they're dancing together while dressed in lavish 17th-century French period costumes. This is arguably the era when France was at the peak of its power, and the French elite who wore this type of clothing profited the most from the exploitation of their colonies. The contrast of Louis' brown skin against his white outfit is a visual reminder that he wouldn't even ''exist'' without French colonialism (the ugly implication being that somewhere in his family tree, he has at least one French ancestor who likely raped a female slave). Lestat represents the side of privilege where Frenchmen could "sample" (Lestat's own word) any person under their control, although specifically in Lestat's case, he's a "gentler" [[note]]a relative term, since he's certainly gentler to Louis, but definitely NOT to Lily, a prostitute whom Lestat had murdered after having sex with her; like Louis, she's also biracial and a "misfit beauty" in Lestat's eyes[[/note]] variation of the same theme in a time when slavery has been outlawed. Moreover, Lestat is positioning his arm around Louis' waist, which suggests that the latter is the "woman" in their relationship; even European women had very few rights during the colonial period, let alone those who weren't Caucasian, so it further highlights the inherent inequalities between Louis and Lestat.