Talk:Transparent (TV series)

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not noteworthy?
What i have to ask pertains to a reverted edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transparent_%28TV_series%29&diff=643968693&oldid=643786805

If the show is noteworthy, isn't it important to note
 * (1) that viewers normally must pay or subscribe in order to watch the show,
 * (2) that on this occasion, the people making the show waived the normally required payment/subscription, and
 * (3) why the people making the show chose to temporarily stream it for free?

If "wikipedia is not really a place to post announcements", does that mean we should remove Transparent_(TV_series), since that has been announced, but hasn't happened yet? i meant for my edit to be informative rather than an ad (although things can be both), and capitalized "Streaming online FREE" that way to differentiate this event from the way the show is normally presented (which is also called streaming, isn't it?)

Now that the event is almost over, should any of this go back into the article?

--70.17.204.31 (talk) 04:50, 25 January 2015 (UTC)


 * "Now that the event is almost over, should any of this go back into the article?" My opinion would be no. It was just a sales gimmick for Amazon Prime; Wikipedia normally doesn't mention those, particularly not after the fact. Softlavender (talk) 06:36, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Maura to be referred to as she
Maura Pfefferman is to be referred to using female pronouns: she, her, etc. To refer to someone on the basis of their own gender self-identification is in line with MOS:IDENTITY (and in my personal opinion also with the appropriate and necessary respect that human beings owe each other). I believe that any change should not be done in this article, but should first be proposed at VPP. Mark in wiki (talk) 10:29, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

DVD
Is this show published on disc, or only streamed?-71.174.188.32 (talk) 03:04, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * It is published on disc! I think that we should note that the disc version has commentary added from the show creator. Mdelilah (talk) 17:05, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

LGBT reaction
As can be read in the article, this show is considered really good. But it's considered good to the general audience. But given the subject matter, I think additional research needs to be devoted to the LGBT community's reception. I briefly searched for opinions myself, but could only really come up with blogs that tended more towards an extreme stance. It was either "This show is transphobic bullshit" or "This portrayal is the best I've seen", with 0 opinions being available in a reliable source. mol uɐɯ  13:46, 1 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Hello! I also think that there should be more research devoted to the LGBT community's reception. I believe that the show puts a big emphasis on the cis-gender characters and how they are coping with Muara's transition and how Maura has to help them cope. Mdelilah (talk) 17:08, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Season 2 sources
Dumping some sources I had compiled a while ago:


 * http://www.ew.com/recap/transparent-season-2-study-guide/
 * http://variety.com/t/transparent/
 * http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/transparent-season-2-premiere-date-amazon-1201555451/
 * http://www.tvguide.com/news/transparent-season-2-amazon-jill-soloway-jeffrey-tambor/

Agg
 * http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/3471/s02/

Reviews
 * http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/transparent-season-two-review/419943/
 * http://www.avclub.com/review/season-two-transparent-blossoms-tvs-most-emotional-229372
 * http://www.vox.com/culture/2015/12/13/10021938/transparent-season-2-review-amazon
 * http://www.tv.com/shows/transparent/community/post/transparent-season-2-review-144968013726/
 * http://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/5-reasons-transparent-season-2-is-more-binge-worthy-than-the-first/

Episode-specific
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/arts/television/transparent-season-2-episode-2-episode-3-review.html?_r=0
 * http://www.mtv.com/news/2686142/transparent-man-on-the-land-exclusion/

Hopefully they will be of use  czar  19:34, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Combining Articles
There is a list of accolades on the main page, but there is also a separate article, connected to this one, that is a partially completed list of awards and nominations. I think that either all the awards listed in the table on the main page be transferred over to the awards page, or we keep the awards table on the main page and the awards page should be proposed for deletion. It seems kind of redundant to have the same information on both pages. Kingstoken (talk)15:58, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I deleted the awards table in this article and moved everything over to the awards page. Kingstoken (talk) 15:45, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 8 May 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Not moved. Consensus that this is not the primary topic of "transparent". (t · c)  buidhe  00:49, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Transparent (TV series) → Transparent – Main topic, like All of Us. Also, similarly to Friends, add a notice that links to Transparency. Ireadbooks12 (talk) 16:09, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose, the primary topic is the optical property. – Thjarkur (talk) 16:50, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. transparent is a term that editors are more likely to wikilink (intending one of its non pop culture meanings) than friends. There are hundreds of mainspace piped wikilinks of the form, with Transparency and translucency being the most common value of X (but with healthy representation from several other topics). There are about as many with capitalized Transparent as the visible link text, with the TV series being the most common target, but not the only one. Assigning any ptopic to the term is an invitation to mistargeted wikilinks. (But if a ptopic had to be chosen, Transparency and translucency would easily win the long-term significance tiebreaker). Colin M (talk) 18:34, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose as above. In ictu oculi (talk) 19:24, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose, suggested target is far too general. If there was a way to distinguish between transparent (general term) and Transparent (TV series) it would work, but Wikipedia automatically capitalises the first letter in an article title. J I P  &#124; Talk 13:40, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose per PT#2, DAB is best compromise.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 07:41, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Very clear primary redirect. -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:41, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hmmm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ireadbooks12 ? In ictu oculi (talk) 18:10, 13 May 2021 (UTC)


 * in addition to the well reasoned link navigation reason listed above, there's a clear discrepancy in long-term significance. I very weakly support a disambiguation page. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 18:28, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose, primary topic is clearly - one might even say transparently - the optical property. The existing DAB page for typing in "transparent" is fine, though the optical property as the primary topic should perhaps be considered. Crossroads -talk- 05:28, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose; Beyond what others have said, if someone is searching for the word friend, they're going to look for friend, not friends. Friends as in the TV show is the primary use of the word Friends in terms of encyclopedic entries. If the show was called "Transparents", that would be one thing, but the optical property is obviously the primary topic. Cran32  ( talk  &#124;  contributions ) 20:08, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Adding more detail to plot summary in beginning
I'd like to add more detail into the beginning introductory paragraph overall about the show's representation of trans lived experiences while representing a family experiencing Maura's identity transformation together. I intend to add how the show represents the experience of queer aging in Maura's character, often neglected to be discussed in a lot of spaces. I also feel it is important to mention in the introduction how Maura's story moves away from not just solely telling a transition narrative but also tells her story of her role a trans parent, grandparent, professor, partner, ex-spouse, and sibling. Hess, L. M. (2017, January 24). "my whole life I've been dressing up like a man": Negotiations of Queer Aging and Queer Temporality in the TV Series Transparent. European journal of American studies. Retrieved November 17, 2021, from https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11702. Rberkow (talk) 03:51, 17 November 2021 (UTC)Rberkow