Updatin' cuz I can

[bop_radar]

*lays down four clips of new vid*

*cries inconsolably*

Oh Fuck. So that's how it is.

*procrastinates*

HI! :D

I never update my journal nowadays so but what the hell, I shall randomly do so today. :) What follows are where my fannish attention is these days...

The Good Wife

Comments

[random_serious]

Re: OuaT. Thank you! This show is sooo bad, I mena, really just horrific shite, and yet! Everyone is going gaga over it. and.I.do.not.get.the.love. It's about time someone jsut says out loud that the show is horrid! And I don't even know why I am yelling! Or why I hate this show so much, when it is relatively umoffensive. Yes, it is that kind of day, thank you for asking ;)

[bop_radar]

It's DREADFUL. It's the pits. Seriously. The writing is HORRIBLY BAD and not even in a funny way. Just in a way that makes you go 'wha ... huh????!' The acting is variable to say the best. Charmless, in particular, is excruciating. And I know many people disagree but I hate the actress who plays Regina and her ridiculous overacting and one-style delivery of EVERY SCENE. And gawwwwwd, do NOT get me started on how excruciatingly nails-on-a-chalkboard Rumpel is. ::shudders::

And WTF is this shit anyway? It's not Fairytale land it's DISNEY land apparently. This mixing of classic tales with things like Alice and Wonderland just breaks my brain ...

The thing is the concept of characters who are trapped and can't get back to their destined forms actually does have some kind of imaginative power for me... it intrigues me. I also like the potential the show has for exploring the power of belief and faith and love. Alas they don't seem to *really* know what they've got in their hands and mostly just seem to be having fun smooshing everything

[random_serious]

Disney! That's exactly what it is! It' somehow sickly sweet, childish, immature wishwash that afraid to go the distance. And at the same time it's massively consistently misogynistic! To wit: Price Charming was an entitled ass in all his incarnations, privileged ass who treated Snow badly. Rumpy has his Belle or whoevs who just has to love the manbeast no matter what, a little self-sacrifying selfless caretaker... The doc Snow "dated" was a massive ass. And on and on and on.

And yes, the original point of teh story -lost character, stuck in an unhappy world- held some fascination tome but everything is so hammy and the show is consistently afraid to go dark, at all. Oh, it'll give hints and be dark in a misogynistic way, but that's an unintendedeffect: the writers are so far up their own ass that they don't know what they are doing...

So much promise, so little delivery. And this stays on air, and is a hit? What the hell is going on?

[bop_radar]

Oh I'm not really surprised it's a hit. It's riding that wave of fairytale resurgence and it's got a very physically attractive cast and it waves a few carrots in front of its audience. And personally I keep watching out of the 'this could be done SO MUCH BETTER ... maybe THIS episode will be good?' trap. :(( (Also because there is very little in the way of alternative strong programming at the moment.)

But yeah, it was always going to be hard to work with fairy tales in terms of the inherent misogyny ... unless they went for some classic feminist revisions. I was therefore mildly pleased with Red's backstory (though I wish to god they wouldn't cast her as 'town slut' in Storybrooke).

the writers are so far up their own assthey really are. I watched the panel from whatever-it-was-con and the chick that plays MM was rambling on about how amaaaaazing the writing was and how when she found out what unlocks the spell she was just BLOWN AWAY as it was so inevitable and perfect or something ... it was sickening! The writers were just