Syfy Cosplay show

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

All you Cosplayer's might want to watch this.
http://www.syfy.com/heroesofcosplay
Looks like a cool show.

[Earthshine]

I actually watched the first season of Heroes of Cosplay and I'll be honest, I was not impressed at all.

I first thought that this series would be like Face Off in that it would detail the complications in creating a cosplay and how much time, sweat, tears and cash it costs to make something decent, but it wasn't that AT ALL.

Instead what I got was incredibly shallow people having panic attacks because a cosplay was just slightly off from the official design, they also displayed outrageous reactions when not winning a trophy for a cosplay contest and seemed to miss the point of cosplay; which is to have fun and show that you like a certain character. A couple of the female stars of the show had men who helped them with their cosplay and not ONCE in the entirety of the show did I hear or see any of them thank them for their hard work, and for putting up with their abrasion and abuse.

The “Ambassador of Cosplay” is a woman by the name of Yaya Han, and I'll be blunt, I've never much liked her and this show only highlighted my reasons. It's not because I'm 'jealous' of her cosplay, because I am not, I'll admit freely that she knows her stuff. She knows how to craft a cosplay well, but her personality and cosplay philosophy is not worthy of the title “ambassador”.

She came right out and stated on the show that “overweight people should not cosplay”, and in the past off-screen people have cited her as implying that people of African descent or people with dark pigmentation should not cosplay either.

Yaya Han also in an attempt to dictate what cosplay is stated that cosplay should never be manipulated through sex appeal and instead should always be focused on craftsmanship, which is absolutely CORRECT. However this does not bode well for her at all considering that upwards of 95% of her cosplay are her using said sex appeal (showing off a lot of skin, using cosplays that are provocative in nature in the first place, posing suggestively).

While Yaya Han is correct in what she says that cosplay should be about craftsmanship, she loses sight that it is also about having fun and how you feel in that cosplay and owning what you accomplished. Being proud of what you did. Seeing her behave like this makes me really sad for her because I wonder if she is really having fun with it anymore...

I don't think she is.

Heroes of Cosplay could have been something great, but all it turned into was drama and a misrepresentation of cosplayers.

Finally, a hero of cosplay to me is not Yaya Han or most of the cast of that show (there was one girl that got it right, and she was treated as an outcast by the others with their snobbery) but the people who dress up as popular comic heroes and visit children's hospitals in their spare time for no pay and no trophies. As far as I know Yaya Han has never even considered charity work, and thus for that reason is no hero and is no ambassador.

I'm not going to say "don't watch the show" but I think everyone should know this before getting into it, that it's not what it seems. It's a drama.