tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post6524418553858680831..comments2024-03-27T01:48:48.936-07:00Comments on They're All Fictional: Links and UpdatesRavhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09152296184925188730noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-14107396872737866282016-04-09T15:16:13.946-07:002016-04-09T15:16:13.946-07:00The Night Manager is still totally worth seeing, T...The Night Manager is still totally worth seeing, The acting all round was brilliant, its beautifully shot, and I liked the ending too. Its just that start - I consoled myself with the old "well, its based on a Le Care book, and the few I've read start with a woman's death But go watch it for sure. <br /><br />Its really not fair. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-26949095537163132972016-04-09T14:33:48.852-07:002016-04-09T14:33:48.852-07:00Really? And I was looking forward to getting to Th...Really? And I was looking forward to getting to The Night Manager! Gah! (As someone said on Tumblr, it's a serious problem when LGBT and POC see themselves on television and their first thought it: "when's this character gonna die?"<br /><br />And although I have things like Jyn Erso and Vanessa Ives and the clones of Orphan Black to look forward to, it's a different situation entirely for WOC. <br /><br />It's just not FAIR and I don't care how childish that makes me sound! I'm putting all my hopes in younger Millennials who are absorbing all this criticism and will enter writing studios in the near future with a greater understanding of what to do and not do.Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09152296184925188730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-4526294894841050552016-04-09T05:12:59.702-07:002016-04-09T05:12:59.702-07:00As fandom often points out - nothing happens in a ...As fandom often points out - nothing happens in a vacuum. <br /><br />Its not the genre either, I recently watched The Night Manager, the story literally unfolds because of the death of a woman who he slept with (and a WOC at that) in the first episode<br /><br />I can't be the other person who is sick to death of watching stuff about guys, especially two white CIS guys who have the bro-ist of bromances, or main pain to end all man pain. <br />I can't be bothered and I just don't care<br /><br />Also - the douch-bag part of the Internet reaction to The Rogue trailer is another sort of ridiculousness entirely. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-85046576328255575102016-04-09T01:34:19.616-07:002016-04-09T01:34:19.616-07:00I don't know if it's the shows I'm wat...I don't know if it's the shows I'm watching or just a perfect storm of various showrunners making shitty creative decisions at what is coincidentally the <i>exact same time</i>, but it is, as you say, exhausting. <br /><br />I think the public is very much nearing the end of its patience with anti-heroes and grimdark stories: it's time for some levity to be inserted back into the world. <br /><br />Personally I'm thinking about dropping television shows for a while (sans the ones you mention in your last paragraph) and focusing more on books/films/miniseries. You have more control over which ones you chose to engage with, and it's less of an emotional/time commitment. Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09152296184925188730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163433168019315772.post-31197759668308759302016-04-09T00:52:11.103-07:002016-04-09T00:52:11.103-07:00Ha, I read this whole thing thinking it was in res...Ha, I read this whole thing thinking it was in respect to the very recent Sleepy Hollow news! I am glad I bailed out early, but finding it so hard to believe they killed of such an important character, extreme sarcasm font follows: "but the only way to let a character exit a show is in an extremely violent and perverse manner, especially if they represent a minority - and there is no way in hell we can let them be love interest" <br /><br />sighs - Its just so cheap, lazy and racist. As read elsewhere (Could have been Foz Meadows on twitter) Its just exhausting - and I'm cis! I can only imagine what it must be like for those who are not. <br />There is also the fallout between Whittle and Rothenberg <br />You know its a big deal with these things are making the headline of the daily's - TV is failing on so many levels - and badly. <br />Am so glad I got out of Games of Thrones too - they have a lot of competition now, and they're probably up for it in a big way!! which is not a good thing AT ALL<br /><br />So, yes, looking forward to Clones, Satan (although NOT son of... sorry Arthur, that looks horrible) and our Queen unravelling the mystery that is her best friends husband in Undercover <br />I had not heard what had happened to The Musketeers, so that is weird. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com