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Watching tv while taping can be problematic, also this irritating tendency of the tv always jumping to NY1, whenever I turn it off and on again.
Oh well, did watch Once Upon a Time and The Good Wife after the flick Captain America. (Yes, more tv than I want to admit to watching in one night. But I ate dinner during Captain America.)
Of the three, I found Captain America the least interesting and the most predictable, reminding me once again why I prefer television to movies. Oh don't get me wrong - it's an enjoyable flick, great visuals, and whoever did the art direction and cinematography clearly spent a lot of time with the 1940s comic books.
( Review of Captain America with Mild Spoilers )
On to Once Upon a Time. My only difficulty with Once is that they are making Regina hateful. I wanted to kill her by the end of the episode, which makes sense considering I was seeing her purely through Emma Swan, Henry, and Mary Margaret's Elizabeth (Snow White) pov's.
Other than that, I'm rather enjoying this show - which is very much a female empowerment piece sans the aggravating victimized little girl or the gal with guy powers. As my pal CW once stated, women are allowed to be powerful in their own right - they aren't given male powers for this to happen.
I want to address what I mean by that quickly...and I guess this works with the review of Captain America above. Today, I listened to someone talk about gender in a way that I never really thought about before. He said that women were permitted to dress like men, but men not like women. Women could wear jeans, a tie, a jacket, etc - even that old 1940's poster of the working factory gal with her sleeves rolled up and in jeans. But if a man wore a dress he would be made fun of, considered a joke. Why? Because we can understand why a woman would want to be more like a man, why she'd want to dress like him, and have his "power" and his "rights" but we can't understand why a man would want to be like a woman, to be the "weaker" sex. The very fact he might want to - upsets people, makes them very angry, and often mean. In Captain America above - there was a big deal made out of how women couldn't fight in the War, that Steve Rodgers wasn't physically strong enough. We are taught from a early age, hard-wired, to view gender in certain way. Unable to see the liminal spaces between, that we can't be defined solely by our gender or sexual orientation - that's not always that definitive.
What I love about Once Upon a Time is that power is explored in whole new way. Men don't have all the power in this series. And how power is weilded is different. Emma Swan has a traditional male role - but she is not super-strong, and she's a bit butch, true, but not definitively so. Snow White/Mary Margaret isn't easily defined either. She's not a damsel.
She's tough and smart, yet also wildly feminine. And here's the thing? She save's the Prince Charming as often as he saves her. They are equals. One gender isn't more powerful or more preferable than another. It's one of the many things that distinguishes Once from Willingham's Fables or for that matter, Greenwalt's Grimm. Once does what Pam Am promised.
( Spoilers for Once Upon a Time - tonight's episode )
Late. Will write about The Good Wife at another time.
Oh well, did watch Once Upon a Time and The Good Wife after the flick Captain America. (Yes, more tv than I want to admit to watching in one night. But I ate dinner during Captain America.)
Of the three, I found Captain America the least interesting and the most predictable, reminding me once again why I prefer television to movies. Oh don't get me wrong - it's an enjoyable flick, great visuals, and whoever did the art direction and cinematography clearly spent a lot of time with the 1940s comic books.
( Review of Captain America with Mild Spoilers )
On to Once Upon a Time. My only difficulty with Once is that they are making Regina hateful. I wanted to kill her by the end of the episode, which makes sense considering I was seeing her purely through Emma Swan, Henry, and Mary Margaret's Elizabeth (Snow White) pov's.
Other than that, I'm rather enjoying this show - which is very much a female empowerment piece sans the aggravating victimized little girl or the gal with guy powers. As my pal CW once stated, women are allowed to be powerful in their own right - they aren't given male powers for this to happen.
I want to address what I mean by that quickly...and I guess this works with the review of Captain America above. Today, I listened to someone talk about gender in a way that I never really thought about before. He said that women were permitted to dress like men, but men not like women. Women could wear jeans, a tie, a jacket, etc - even that old 1940's poster of the working factory gal with her sleeves rolled up and in jeans. But if a man wore a dress he would be made fun of, considered a joke. Why? Because we can understand why a woman would want to be more like a man, why she'd want to dress like him, and have his "power" and his "rights" but we can't understand why a man would want to be like a woman, to be the "weaker" sex. The very fact he might want to - upsets people, makes them very angry, and often mean. In Captain America above - there was a big deal made out of how women couldn't fight in the War, that Steve Rodgers wasn't physically strong enough. We are taught from a early age, hard-wired, to view gender in certain way. Unable to see the liminal spaces between, that we can't be defined solely by our gender or sexual orientation - that's not always that definitive.
What I love about Once Upon a Time is that power is explored in whole new way. Men don't have all the power in this series. And how power is weilded is different. Emma Swan has a traditional male role - but she is not super-strong, and she's a bit butch, true, but not definitively so. Snow White/Mary Margaret isn't easily defined either. She's not a damsel.
She's tough and smart, yet also wildly feminine. And here's the thing? She save's the Prince Charming as often as he saves her. They are equals. One gender isn't more powerful or more preferable than another. It's one of the many things that distinguishes Once from Willingham's Fables or for that matter, Greenwalt's Grimm. Once does what Pam Am promised.
( Spoilers for Once Upon a Time - tonight's episode )
Late. Will write about The Good Wife at another time.