watchin' stuff like it's my job
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Good Omens 2. I am not super invested in this tale and these characters they way some of you are, but i feel very good about the whole thing, spoilers under the cut,
I think it's a remarkable achievement. It is a great time to be alive if you are queer and a fan of television, it's like after decades of crumbs we finally have a feast, or at least several good meals, and we can choose from them, we have OFMD, the Last of Us, the Expanse, even Andor has lesbians. Ted Lasso had gay characters, so does Abbott Elementary. The Dragon Prince has lesbians and even a trans guy. Nimona is just all queers all the time. These shows are raising the bar for every other show.
I realize the romance genre has a trope called "the 3rd act breakup" or something like that; it's remarkable to me that Good Omens writers are hitting the beats of a ROMANCE story, and it's 2 men, or at least the actors are men and the angels present themselves as such. It felt quite like "Our Flag Means Death", which also hits the romance beats, and also is about 2 middle-aged men. the LEAD roles in this rather main stream show are QUEER Middle-aged characters, it's incredible. Well done lads.
Lady Bird (library DVD). Dir. Greta Gerwig
I think this is a good movie, but it's very serious and features people yelling, and I was in the wrong mood for it. It's about a 17 year old girl who is in her last year of high school. She fights constantly with her mom, who is a difficult person. She's on a foolish quest to get a boyfriend, I say foolish because she's extremely bad at making choices in who to pursue. And she wants to go to New York for college, which her mother disapproves of, mostly for financial reasons. But Lady Bird is so desperate to get away from her mom that she literally throws herself out of a moving car-- a shocking opening scene, that isn't really addressed later.
I appreciate that the movie seems to be about: to pay attention, is to love.
Lady Bird, a teenager, is so wrapped up in her own troubles that she is not willing or able to see the troubles of the people around her. This is understandable because she's a teenager and she's pretty busy fending off her mother. But it felt weird to just get these glimpses of other people's lives and then get no exploration of those threads-- mainly I'm talking about LB's friend Julie and a creepy math teacher.
I did find this thought-provoking and sometimes quite moving, but kind of unpleasant to watch.
Good Omens 2. I am not super invested in this tale and these characters they way some of you are, but i feel very good about the whole thing, spoilers under the cut,
I think it's a remarkable achievement. It is a great time to be alive if you are queer and a fan of television, it's like after decades of crumbs we finally have a feast, or at least several good meals, and we can choose from them, we have OFMD, the Last of Us, the Expanse, even Andor has lesbians. Ted Lasso had gay characters, so does Abbott Elementary. The Dragon Prince has lesbians and even a trans guy. Nimona is just all queers all the time. These shows are raising the bar for every other show.
I realize the romance genre has a trope called "the 3rd act breakup" or something like that; it's remarkable to me that Good Omens writers are hitting the beats of a ROMANCE story, and it's 2 men, or at least the actors are men and the angels present themselves as such. It felt quite like "Our Flag Means Death", which also hits the romance beats, and also is about 2 middle-aged men. the LEAD roles in this rather main stream show are QUEER Middle-aged characters, it's incredible. Well done lads.
Lady Bird (library DVD). Dir. Greta Gerwig
I think this is a good movie, but it's very serious and features people yelling, and I was in the wrong mood for it. It's about a 17 year old girl who is in her last year of high school. She fights constantly with her mom, who is a difficult person. She's on a foolish quest to get a boyfriend, I say foolish because she's extremely bad at making choices in who to pursue. And she wants to go to New York for college, which her mother disapproves of, mostly for financial reasons. But Lady Bird is so desperate to get away from her mom that she literally throws herself out of a moving car-- a shocking opening scene, that isn't really addressed later.
I appreciate that the movie seems to be about: to pay attention, is to love.
Lady Bird, a teenager, is so wrapped up in her own troubles that she is not willing or able to see the troubles of the people around her. This is understandable because she's a teenager and she's pretty busy fending off her mother. But it felt weird to just get these glimpses of other people's lives and then get no exploration of those threads-- mainly I'm talking about LB's friend Julie and a creepy math teacher.
I did find this thought-provoking and sometimes quite moving, but kind of unpleasant to watch.
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Date: 2023-08-03 07:22 am (UTC)And "For All Mankind,"
Date: 2023-08-03 03:49 pm (UTC)...the Ron Moore & co alt history about the Terran space race actually features at least 50% women in leadership roles, as well as several queer characters.
Third Season Spoilers
The early-90s Republican lesbian president is about to come out on global TVThe show starts in early 60s and they don't hold back on how homophobia boxed-in queer people's lives, and the emotional devastation of the closet.
Re: And "For All Mankind,"
Date: 2023-08-03 03:49 pm (UTC)actually because I didn't bother to even watch a trailer because of the title. Weird choice.
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Date: 2023-08-04 07:55 pm (UTC)