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[heather]

THINGIES IN MY EYEBALLS:

+ Saw Thor this weekend and I'm in love. I mean, there's stuff I could say about the storytelling and whatnot, but mostly I LOVE THOR. THOR IS A FLUFFY BUNNY. I have such a kink for cuddly superheros with storyarcs that are about being wise and kind and sweet, and also punching stuff. And who kiss Jane's fingers and make

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[schmoo999]

You stayed and saw the scene after credits? It ties into the Avengers movie being filmed by one Joss Whedon right now!! Thor, Ironman, and Cap all in one movie? (Loki too from what I have read) CANNOT WAIT!

:)

[heather]

Wait

wait no

I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE STAYED BEHIND.

[schmoo999]

If it is a Marvel studios movie always always stay through the credits. It was a scene with Eric, Nick Fury, the cosmic cube and Loki in a reflective surface. :)

[heather]

WHY INDEED. :(

You know usually I HAAAAATE when writers take strong, amazing, beautiful female characters and inflict this kind of storyline on them (any character really). HATE IT. (See: Sons of Anarchy, though I admit I came around during the fallout.) And in this case...I still pretty much hate it. But if there's anyone I can think of going to do that sort of thing and not make it exploitative and not make me hate it as MUCH, and stick around to see how it turns out? It's David Simon.

Also, Khandi Alexander for all the awards. ;___;

[heather]

I did hear Sif/Thor are married! I guess I don't mind much, I'd have to read it and find out. I loved Sif A LOT. Loved her clearly deep friendship with Thor, loved the sense of history between them (I could ship it, like maybe they fooled around as teenagers or something), loved the complete LACK of any sense of rivalry or jealousy towards Jane given Thor's beautiful fluffy feelings for her. Best friendship basically. Best. Would watch a whole sequel about Thor's buds

[heather]

I can't remember if I heard whether or not Cersei gets POV chapters in book 4. I hope so. I agree, the non-POV characters suffer always. I honestly don't care about Robb, haha. And show!Robb...Richard Madden isn't exactly blowing me away with his clenched jaw and steel cage of emotion.

lol god, Theon is such a miserable little shit. I want Asha chapters.

Book 2 has taken me forever to slog through. It really doesn't pick up until the back third of the book imo. Editing is your friend, George. But yeah, that's my problem with a lot of these fantasy series--they're not meant to be historical so putting women through all that hell, and having everything be so white, is unnecessary. Why are the gender norms the way they are? It's uncreative.

[glockgal]

I just want them to be okay. ;___;

YESSSSSS THIS EXACTLY. Fuck, I don't know how or why they decided that Artie should be such hateable jerk-face, but good lord is he ever. (well, I mean. If he was SUPPOSED to be that he's a hateable jerk-face, I'd get it. But I feel most hateable jerk-faces in this show never get comeuppances, y'know?) ANYWAY, WHATEVER. ARTIE TO THE CURB. SANTANA/BRITTANY 4EVA.

I'm kinda scared to watch Game of Thrones, after I was originally all excited for it. Not that the books were ZOMG SO AMAZING, but more that I fear all the gross creepy junk I didn't like in the books has been both dumbed down and written TO THE EXTREME!!!!! for the titillation of TV audiences. :/

[heather]

Artie is such a Nice Guy I can't even stand it. His speech to Brittany last week, what WAS that. I'm so glad they're over. I wish Santana/Brittany were on their own show. I can't take my eyes off them. Overly invested tbh. I have a thing for emotionally unavailable female characters who run from their feelings, their painful scary intense feelings! FEELINGS, G. And just, they're really capturing how hard it can be. Makes me want to cry every time.

And oh, Game of Thrones. The gross creepy stuff is def dumbed down and amplified when it comes to Dany's arc. They're just getting it so wrong and it was bad enough when reading.

[glockgal]

I KNOW RIGHT. Brittany and Santana should just spin off on a show called Fondue for Two and sing and dance at each other forever. And Mercedes and Kurt and Tina w/Mike can visit every now and then and play with Lord Tubbington.

Santana's sad!face has to be the cutest, most saddest, most tragic face EVER. When I see her get all crumply I just want to cry, omgggg.

(here is my opportunity to bitch about Glee, bear with me!) I could give a damn about Sam and his stupid 'problems'. I mean, the writers constant attempts to make Sam likable are so TRANSPARENT. He was dull and uninteresting The Ambiguous Sexual Guy, The Heart-of-Gold Jock, the Asshole Jock, the Pretty Boy so now they're trying 'I'm Poor'? SHUT. UP. GLEE WRITERS. STOP TRYING TO HAM-FISTEDLY MANIPULATE ME INTO LOVING SAM. I'll never forgive them for getting rid of non-speaking Matt so they can truck in a speaking white boy.

They're just getting it so wrong and it was bad enough when reading.*Santana-sadface* Well, at least I'll be prepared for this when I do get around

[heather]

Hahaha Sam is SO BORING. I don't understand the point of him, but I thought that was just because I fast-forward through so many of his scenes. Glee is just one ham-fisted device after another, with the finest threads of genuine characterization thrown in here and there.

[thornyrose42]

I would so be up for rants and much talk about Game of Thrones.

I'm in the slightly odd position of having read the books so long ago that about the only thing I can remember about them is the gut wrenching ending to the first book, so I'm sort of trying to stay away from reminders of spoilers but still I'm pretty sure that Dany was more awesome/more developed in the books. So discussion would be good.

I am in love with Arya though. All the Starks. And actually the Lannisters too. I think that they have done a really good job of making them all sympathetic.

[heather]

I love everything the Starks choose to be. All their goodness and horrible political minds, all their EPICALLY bad decisions. They're all perfectly cast in the show, too.

But yeah, I do love the show!Lannisters a lot! It's been a happy surprise because I haven't got to the books where they have POV chapters yet, and I like that the show is adding meaty scenes for them early on. I've loved all the additions.

Dany's missing a lot of the development and perspectives she had in the books, stuff that made the storyline a lot richer than it would've been otherwise. I'm really disappointed the show hasn't figured out how to translate it. All they seem to be doing is taking the things that are problematic enough in the books and magnifying them x1000000.

[thornyrose42]

Yeah exactly, because the thing with Dany in the books is that when you first meet her you do sort of tend to go: 'Oh hello blonde haired, purple eyed Mary Sue what amazing things are you going to do then?' But then you realise that she had personality and problems and is epically awesome and still makes mistakes. In short she is a great character

[heather]

I always felt like Dany had a personality but my problem is that she treads awfully close to the appropriative white savior trope, this chick who ends up in the wilderness with savages and makes their lives better/ends up leading them, but what stops her from being quite that, at least so far, is that when she ends up with the Dothraki she HAS no culture of her own, and basically adopts theirs rather than judging or forcing them to change. Because her own circumstances back home with her brother's brutality are nightmarish, and she is in fact an extremely damaged girl, so she brings a uniquely biased perspective to the situation. She finds Drogo to be a lot kinder than she expected and the culture itself to be better than the one she came from. It's still skeevy of course, but in the show it's so much worse because it's lost that shading. In the books because we're in her head, we understand that she's fucked up and the whole situation is fucked up; on the show it's "lalala Drogo rapes Dany and then she gets a slave girl to show her