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shadowkat1. Okay this is bugging me a little bit...
You are a six-foot to six-foot three guy, over 195 pounds, lead on a television series acting with women who are five foot or smaller, and some guys who are five-foot nine. And you decide to wander about the set and workplace with your penis hanging out. No one stops you. How is this okay? How does this promote a safe work environment? And why didn't anyone say no?
I told my mother this story over the phone today, and she asked why the lead actress on the show didn't do anything about it.
ME: She was 16 or 17 years of age at the time. It was her first lead series. And she had a huge crush on him and he was drop dead goregous.
Mother: And he was much older...
Me: Twenty-six years old
Mother: I'm surprised she didn't have an affair with him.
Me: She did. He slept with her and another actress, while he was married. I found out during the third season trolling the net, and various actors confirmed it. It's why I think he's a creep.
Mother: He is a creep. Does he still do this?
Me: Yes, he just settled another lawsuit for the series he completed. No one has said no to him.
Mother: This may start to derail his career...
Me: I don't think he'll be able to go much further after a bit, if he doesn't stop. And it could catch up sooner or latter...I mean that sort of behavior was apparently acceptable in the 1990s and 00s, but not now. Also if a woman did it -
Mother: She'd be considered a whore or worse.
Me: Yet, with men..it's boys will be boys..this is a toxic society.
Mother: We're very prudish in the US, Europe is more open. More prudish societies tend to be very misogynistic. They allow men to expose, and women not to -- and the misogyny is rampant.
I find it disturbing that this happens and no one questions it or puts a stop to it.
2. Cold rainy day.
The rain feels like ice water. Was out in it -- to see MD for the first time in months. Also church which...had great music and a cute children's pagent about immigration.
3. Watching Manifest -- which is better when it isn't delving into the conspiracy theory or the mystical connections between the passengers -- who appear to have been the unwittingly subjects of a neurological experiment that cost them five years of their lives.
4. Doctor Who
Like I stated in last post, mixed feelings about the last episode and the season as a whole. I felt it was uneven and difficult to get into. Very episodic and moral themed, but not "Fun", if anything a bit too heavy handed on the morality in places -- which I think may have back-fired on them. You have to be careful about heavy-handed morality in stories, because if it is misread, whoa-boy.
I did like the "anti-violence" arc or do no harm. Every problem in every episode was resolved without direct violence from the main or lead ensemble. (I can't comment on the spider episode, because I didn't watch -- because, well, SPIDERS! But apparently they locked them in a room instead of killing them...people appear to have wanted them to be allowed to roam free. I vote for merciful shots in the head, but again Spiders!!)
This episode also seemed to have a not-so-subtle anti-religion theme, and how doing violence has a negative chain reaction. Yet, like the Spiders, just trapping the villain forever is a-okay. Again while it didn't necessarily bother me that much -- I remember thinking wouldn't it be more merciful to just kill him that let him sit in an enclosed cube for eternity? Apparently captivity is okay but killing isn't? Which also goes towards last week's episode -- where the entity is also trapped, alone, in some pocket universe for eternity, and likewise the girl had been trapped alone. But hey, no one is killed. So I'm guessing the writers have issues with guns and direct violence, but not imprisonment or captivity? In short -- put the bad guys in prison, don't kill them.
This works in theory...but if you have a non-remorseful and insane villain out there...and there's an off-chance he could go free at some point in the not too distant future..killing him may be the best option? Also, keeping a powerful entity in a pocket universe by itself...how do you know it can't get out, also isn't that a tad cruel? And yes imprisoning the spiders in a panic room where all they have to eat is each other is equally cruel -- but again spiders, so hard for me to care overly much.
I get the anti-violence theme and am in complete agreement regarding the use of guns to solve problems being a bad idea. But, there's some other ideas going on in there that seem a bit sketchy.
My other quibble and it is by far a much larger one -- is I'm having trouble caring about the characters. The writing isn't pulling me in. I'm not sure why. I've been bored most of this season.
And have had troubles following some of the episodes. This episode -- sort of lost me, and I went to sleep during -- the first time I tried to watch it. I think it got rather complicated and might far-fetched in the set up, nice metaphors though. The set-up was that the bad guy had convinced two of the planets powerful inhabitants to use their magic to collect and imprison planets around the solar system. The Doctor and her companions have to find a way to capture the bad guy (who'd convinced the other two -- he was their prophesied god) and put the planets back where they belonged. I found it rather slow and hard to care. It lacked energy and humor -- I can't quite decide if this is a result of the Doctor, the Ensemble, or the writing. Possibly all three? (shrugs).
At any rate, the episode didn't do a lot for me either way. But from a socio-political perspective -- it was rather innocuous. So no worries there at least.
Overall, the season feels much the same way as this episode, sort of blah. There were maybe three or four good episodes, but nothing really stands out. I'll keep watching for now - or until my DVR gets overloaded again and I just run out of time.
You are a six-foot to six-foot three guy, over 195 pounds, lead on a television series acting with women who are five foot or smaller, and some guys who are five-foot nine. And you decide to wander about the set and workplace with your penis hanging out. No one stops you. How is this okay? How does this promote a safe work environment? And why didn't anyone say no?
I told my mother this story over the phone today, and she asked why the lead actress on the show didn't do anything about it.
ME: She was 16 or 17 years of age at the time. It was her first lead series. And she had a huge crush on him and he was drop dead goregous.
Mother: And he was much older...
Me: Twenty-six years old
Mother: I'm surprised she didn't have an affair with him.
Me: She did. He slept with her and another actress, while he was married. I found out during the third season trolling the net, and various actors confirmed it. It's why I think he's a creep.
Mother: He is a creep. Does he still do this?
Me: Yes, he just settled another lawsuit for the series he completed. No one has said no to him.
Mother: This may start to derail his career...
Me: I don't think he'll be able to go much further after a bit, if he doesn't stop. And it could catch up sooner or latter...I mean that sort of behavior was apparently acceptable in the 1990s and 00s, but not now. Also if a woman did it -
Mother: She'd be considered a whore or worse.
Me: Yet, with men..it's boys will be boys..this is a toxic society.
Mother: We're very prudish in the US, Europe is more open. More prudish societies tend to be very misogynistic. They allow men to expose, and women not to -- and the misogyny is rampant.
I find it disturbing that this happens and no one questions it or puts a stop to it.
2. Cold rainy day.
The rain feels like ice water. Was out in it -- to see MD for the first time in months. Also church which...had great music and a cute children's pagent about immigration.
3. Watching Manifest -- which is better when it isn't delving into the conspiracy theory or the mystical connections between the passengers -- who appear to have been the unwittingly subjects of a neurological experiment that cost them five years of their lives.
4. Doctor Who
Like I stated in last post, mixed feelings about the last episode and the season as a whole. I felt it was uneven and difficult to get into. Very episodic and moral themed, but not "Fun", if anything a bit too heavy handed on the morality in places -- which I think may have back-fired on them. You have to be careful about heavy-handed morality in stories, because if it is misread, whoa-boy.
I did like the "anti-violence" arc or do no harm. Every problem in every episode was resolved without direct violence from the main or lead ensemble. (I can't comment on the spider episode, because I didn't watch -- because, well, SPIDERS! But apparently they locked them in a room instead of killing them...people appear to have wanted them to be allowed to roam free. I vote for merciful shots in the head, but again Spiders!!)
This episode also seemed to have a not-so-subtle anti-religion theme, and how doing violence has a negative chain reaction. Yet, like the Spiders, just trapping the villain forever is a-okay. Again while it didn't necessarily bother me that much -- I remember thinking wouldn't it be more merciful to just kill him that let him sit in an enclosed cube for eternity? Apparently captivity is okay but killing isn't? Which also goes towards last week's episode -- where the entity is also trapped, alone, in some pocket universe for eternity, and likewise the girl had been trapped alone. But hey, no one is killed. So I'm guessing the writers have issues with guns and direct violence, but not imprisonment or captivity? In short -- put the bad guys in prison, don't kill them.
This works in theory...but if you have a non-remorseful and insane villain out there...and there's an off-chance he could go free at some point in the not too distant future..killing him may be the best option? Also, keeping a powerful entity in a pocket universe by itself...how do you know it can't get out, also isn't that a tad cruel? And yes imprisoning the spiders in a panic room where all they have to eat is each other is equally cruel -- but again spiders, so hard for me to care overly much.
I get the anti-violence theme and am in complete agreement regarding the use of guns to solve problems being a bad idea. But, there's some other ideas going on in there that seem a bit sketchy.
My other quibble and it is by far a much larger one -- is I'm having trouble caring about the characters. The writing isn't pulling me in. I'm not sure why. I've been bored most of this season.
And have had troubles following some of the episodes. This episode -- sort of lost me, and I went to sleep during -- the first time I tried to watch it. I think it got rather complicated and might far-fetched in the set up, nice metaphors though. The set-up was that the bad guy had convinced two of the planets powerful inhabitants to use their magic to collect and imprison planets around the solar system. The Doctor and her companions have to find a way to capture the bad guy (who'd convinced the other two -- he was their prophesied god) and put the planets back where they belonged. I found it rather slow and hard to care. It lacked energy and humor -- I can't quite decide if this is a result of the Doctor, the Ensemble, or the writing. Possibly all three? (shrugs).
At any rate, the episode didn't do a lot for me either way. But from a socio-political perspective -- it was rather innocuous. So no worries there at least.
Overall, the season feels much the same way as this episode, sort of blah. There were maybe three or four good episodes, but nothing really stands out. I'll keep watching for now - or until my DVR gets overloaded again and I just run out of time.
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Date: 2018-12-17 12:26 am (UTC)The information is sort of scattered in various places. Gellar and Charisma revealed he did it, jokingly at the Buffy reunion. And Dushku and Benze revealed it at a Q&A. I also know his first marriage broke up because he was having an affair with two of the people on Buffy back in 1998-99. Then it all happened again with Bones, and almost broke up his second marriage, resulting in a huge settlement with an extra/guest actress who filed a lawsuit against him. Because it was an extra -- it got buried.
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