In which Comcast and Supernatural battle and both lose.
Did anyone else have a hard time watching Supernatural last night? I've been so digging Castiel and Bunny Colvin (I'm sorry, he'll always be Bunny to me!) and Anna that the more isolated epps have all been a little disappointing. Watching that man kill his wife was beyond awful. Then I heard him explaining why he did it - fully aware and conscious and God, it just made me sick. And I knew that there would be some reasons behind it - something that victimized the men and made them objects of pity. You know, women victimized the men and caused them to brutalize their wives.
It made me think of the Ats episode Billy. I found that difficult to watch, but not impossible. It doesn't start with any sympathy toward the beaters, and doesn't end with an excuse, but more on almost a warning - Is this 'bestial nature' something that all men have lurking underneath the surface? Is this all that separates our husbands from our murderers? But SPN just started off with such unadulerated violence, I couldn't stomach it long enough to see if they tried to actually explore anything interesting, or just left it was a fucked up story line trying to lend excuses or give reason for murderous DV. And yeah, I have a lot of friends working in DV and with DV-victims, so maybe I'm over sensitive (if that even exists). It's the siren's fault, just wasn't going to do it for me. I've read a lot of threads talking about misogyny and endemic racial bias in the show, and read them academically (with interest but not 100% belief). But last night was just too much.
So, I tried to flip over to GA, only to find that my ABC station (which lost its picture during Ugly Betty), then dropped sound for the first 20 minutes of GA. I thought this was part of my war with Comcast; turns out it was for the entire Seattle area. *iz sad*
Considering that I'm online, hopefully my Comcast war is over. But it's been going on since end of December (when their system suddenly dropped my automatic payment information) and each time I think it's fixed, something else goes wrong.
I just feel bad that their CSRs are so damn nice, even though one of them watches Lincoln Heights, which I just cannot support. And I'm the mean, grumpy person being irritable with nice people. I hated me when I worked customer service.
Am going to gym to hopefully run off my very bad temper.
It made me think of the Ats episode Billy. I found that difficult to watch, but not impossible. It doesn't start with any sympathy toward the beaters, and doesn't end with an excuse, but more on almost a warning - Is this 'bestial nature' something that all men have lurking underneath the surface? Is this all that separates our husbands from our murderers? But SPN just started off with such unadulerated violence, I couldn't stomach it long enough to see if they tried to actually explore anything interesting, or just left it was a fucked up story line trying to lend excuses or give reason for murderous DV. And yeah, I have a lot of friends working in DV and with DV-victims, so maybe I'm over sensitive (if that even exists). It's the siren's fault, just wasn't going to do it for me. I've read a lot of threads talking about misogyny and endemic racial bias in the show, and read them academically (with interest but not 100% belief). But last night was just too much.
So, I tried to flip over to GA, only to find that my ABC station (which lost its picture during Ugly Betty), then dropped sound for the first 20 minutes of GA. I thought this was part of my war with Comcast; turns out it was for the entire Seattle area. *iz sad*
Considering that I'm online, hopefully my Comcast war is over. But it's been going on since end of December (when their system suddenly dropped my automatic payment information) and each time I think it's fixed, something else goes wrong.
I just feel bad that their CSRs are so damn nice, even though one of them watches Lincoln Heights, which I just cannot support. And I'm the mean, grumpy person being irritable with nice people. I hated me when I worked customer service.
Am going to gym to hopefully run off my very bad temper.