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1. Just saw Legion S2 premiere...and in case you were wondering if they could get any weirder or more surreal, they just did.

( no clue if any of this spoilery but hiding just in case )

2. Molly Ringwald Revisits The Breakfast Club and the John Hughes Films Through the Eyes of the ME#TOO Movement

John’s movies convey the anger and fear of isolation that adolescents feel, and seeing that others might feel the same way is a balm for the trauma that teen-agers experience. Whether that’s enough to make up for the impropriety of the films is hard to say—even criticizing them makes me feel like I’m divesting a generation of some of its fondest memories, or being ungrateful since they helped to establish my career. And yet embracing them entirely feels hypocritical. And yet, and yet. . . . 

How are we meant to feel about art that we both love and oppose? What if we are in the unusual position of having helped create it? Erasing history is a dangerous road when it comes to art—change is essential, but so, too, is remembering the past, in all of its transgression and barbarism, so that we may properly gauge how far we have come, and also how far we still need to go.

This quote was interesting in light of shows such as "Roseanne" and "Will and Grace", which are offensive in their own ways. And derogatory about women, race, etc. Will & Grace less so.
Or Outlander, which has a lot of rape - and I do mean a lot of rape. (Every single lead character regardless of gender or age gets raped in that series. So, well, at least it's not discriminatory. Equal opportunity rape. And it's not exploitative or gratitous about it, in that the rapes all further the plot and characters. However, one does wonder a bit about a writer (it's the novelist's idea to include all this not the television writers and it's a female novelist ) who can only further plot or character via sexual violence.

That said, I agree with Molly Ringwald, we need to be careful about shaming ourselves or others for loving art that is...unsettling or controversial in this manner. Because as she points out in her article -- the stories Hughes told helped a lot of people in positive ways. They spoke to people who felt like outsiders in their schools or itchy in their own skin. People can see the same story various ways, and may focus on different angles or bits or things than others. No two people see the same thing the same way.

This used to fascinate me with online fandom discussions. I'd realize halfway through that the person I was discussing the story with -- didn't see the same things I did nor did the interpret the characters or situations the same way. We don't. We can't. And that I've always found to be fascinating -- it also to some extent explains a lot.

I remember having a lengthy discussion in lj once about souls. And one poster got upset that people don't share the same "values" and "moral compass" she did. I remember responding..."well, considering we can't seem to agree on the definition of what a soul actually is, I'd say that that's most likely a given...since it's doubtful they define it the same way."


3. Sigh, not to complain, but really...still more TV shows??? And they are bloody hard to find. I keep forgetting they are on and lose them. I forgot "TRUST" was on and completely lost it.


11 Television Series We Are Watching in April

I still haven't made it through the ones in March. And I'm thinking it is time to delete the following shows from my DVR, without bothering to watch them:
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So, the new TV shows?

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Conversations...

1. Distances

D: I've a friend who got sick that I need to visit.
Me: Is it far?
D: Really Far Away.
Me: Where?
D: The Upper West Side. (D lives in Brooklyn, the Upper West Side is about a 50 minute subway ride if that.)
A: New York City Far Away
J: Could be worse and be in New Jersey.
C: Or Staten Island


2. Acting or rather being an actor and having to answer really odd questions at fan conventions that later get posted on youtube for folks like myself to laugh at late at night.

Fan to a panel of actors: As fans, we all have a scene of yours that you've done that is our favorite that we watch over and over. So I want to ask everyone on the panel to tell us what your one favorite scene is, that you've acted in out of your entire career. The you felt you did best.

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I find the panel discussions hilarious. Well except for the one about the hardest scene they ever did -- that's not funny, just painful. And I think once again exposes how a rape culture and a culture stepped in sexual violence, sexual harrassment, and that sort of thing is toxic to all genders.

3. Mother

Mother: So your father is concerned about the number of things I'm lifting.

(We were talking about me doing laundry and how my back was bothering me after wards, to give a little context.)

Me: Well laundry isn't that big -

Mother: Pots actually. They aren't that heavy. There's a big one at the bottom of our driveway. Your father said that I am not to lift it.

Me: He's right, I agree with him.

Mother: It's not that heavy, it has dirt in it and geraniums and I want it moved to the garden or the back.

Me: Can someone else move it for you?

Mother: Yes, but I asked your father if he would help me. We could move it together. But he said, no, neither of us is moving that pot. And we aren't doing it together.

ME: Go Dad! You're going to make me start worrying about you, mother. Don't do that. Wait.

Mother: Well, I suppose I could.

[Sigh, mother has bad back, bad knees, and bad hips. And is looking into getting back or knee surgery this year, but procastinating. She keeps getting pain shots instead.)