well behaved women

I, um. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT LEGEND OF THE SEEKER. I don't know if I've ever loved a female character as much as I love Kahlan, but. but.

The motives of the shows producers are at times not only appallingly clear but disgusting. I'm still grinding my teeth with rage over how they treated Denna--one of the few things the original author seems to have done almost right in the books--and the two episodes in a row make it so clear it's like they're taking a sander to my skull.

Male bad guys can be--relatively--nuanced and have good sides and be spared/potential allies. Female bad guys are bitchslutwhoreeeeevil who are (of course) vaguely infatuated with Richard but still eeeevil. They'll probably have some male 'once a bad guy' stand in for the role she takes in later books, or else wipe it out altogether.

Just.

FUCK. YOU. DISNEY. Or ABC. Whichever.

On other, amusingly coincidental news, the night before last at a friend's house, flipping through On Demand (some kind of TV/movie program) I found a film called Warlock and put it on. Yesterday, it came up on my flist. Now, Julian Sands is smokin' in this movie in my personal opinion, and I'm willing to put up with a certain level of ill deed for eye candy, but this quickly went past my threshold and robbed me of the ability to find him attractive pretty rapidly.

Also: riiiiiight. First the gay guy dies, then the woman who's sexually forward. NOT SEEING A MESSAGE THERE, ARE WE? (I didn't peg him for gay, I thought he was her husband. Then I hear the cop and go, 'oh so that's why he died!') Also also: the tongue grossed me out.

Since at least some of the horror movies I've watched tended to kill off undesirables so that you didn't 'get too upset' but were still horrified, I was kinda hoping for that so I could close my eyes during deaths and then laugh during the cheesy special effects. (Yeah, I'm a wimp, deal.) I just didn't realize the people making this movie back then would have different definitions of undesirables than I did.

Je connais l'assassin; il est mon mari!

I think this is the single most awesome phrase in French I've learned yet. I almost laughed out loud when I saw it on the board; I love our French professor.

Translated: I know the assassin; he is my husband!

I have a lot of love for the Hellboy comics. But though I love certain things about the second movie (those familiar with my journal will know them, and they are summed up as: Nuada, Nuala, and their world) I loathed the BPRD's characterization and let's not even speak of the first film.

They turned Hellboy into a fratboy. They robbed Liz of all her fierce, capable, cynical glory. They ruined Abe, too, by shoehorning him into 'intellectual' and not giving him any real characterization. Hellboy, Liz and Abe were intelligent, competent and tough, blue-collar joes who went to work, dealt with it, and if that work was putting down monstrous worms or hell hounds, well then they got it done. The movie took a shredder to the characters I loved. So: I ship Hellboy/Liz and also Liz/Abe and Hellboy/Katie but only comicverse.

MANAA's Response to Letter from Paramount on The Last Airbender

Bit of old news, I suppose, but still awesome. A balm of intelligence to a raw spot that still makes me want to fucking slug them in the face. Favorite selectrions:

These are the points MANAA and others—including East West Players and a petition of industry professionals— listed as specific concerns:

· The outdated and discriminatory practice of casting white actors to depict Asian characters.
· Casting calls indicating a preference for white actors for leads; people of color for extras.
· Culturally ignorant language used by members of the production (e.g. DeeDee Rickets: “If you’re a Korean, wear a kimono” to the casting call).
· The implications of featuring a villainous nation with dark-skinned, partly South Asian actors and a heroic nation led by white heroes who liberate the “Asian and African” nation.
· Cultural appropriation of Pacific Rim cultures and the franchise's core Asian concepts, despite a glass ceiling blocking off Asian American actors from playing lead protagonists.

MANAA is a strong supporter of studios’ efforts to increase diversity, but it is absurd to use that as an excuse to make a project more white and to say the original concept wasn’t diverse enough when the cultures of the four Asian nations clearly were.
Conversely, does this mean that in the future, you’ll take a story featuring only white people but make a movie with the top four stars all initially being persons of color?

Anyone ever wanted to know what Dollhouse was about? Look over here!

I...I literally made these hideously embarrassing squeaky noises of incoherent glee when I saw No True Pair's May Kink round prompt list.

Like...a chipmunk. On drugs.

No one is seeing my lists. They were far too secret/potentially embarrassing--and yet glee inducing! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG