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[shadowkat]

Watching Breaking Bad - second season at the moment. Today while watching Pioneers of Television : The Western - realized why I despised Bonanza, and my mother who lived Westerns was never that into Bonanza - it was written and created by a misogynist - who stated that he didn't want any women characters, that there were too many Westerns and tv shows about mothers and wives, and he wanted one about father's and son's only with no women cluttering things up. Women characters never survived. (Jeeze.) Also found out that The Wild Wild West was canceled not because of ratings, but the US State Senate told CBS that they should cancel it for violence. It was too violent for audiences. (Ironic that, particularly since five years earlier, Senator Bird in a rousing speech in the Senate, convinced CBS to save Gunsmoke - his favorite Western.) The Government has less influence over television now than it did back in the 1960s, which is sort of interesting.

Oh, Harry Groener is on Breaking Bad. And he's incredibly gaunt. He looks ill. And almost unrecognizable.

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[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

You knew that Laura had no choice and had to wear dresses, right?

Back when I was 6 or 7? I'm not sure I did.I figured if girls were properly stubborn they would be rid of the dreadful things soon.

Like I said I was a bit of a fundamentalist 6 year old. :)

I finally did remember a female character loved though at the same age. That was Ronja the robber's daughter from Astrid Lindgren.

I wasn't much one for realistic stories as a kid. When I watched something like house on the prairie (or other shows with a nonfantastic setup) I would afterwards reinvent the stories in my head with infusions from the fantastic stories I loved.

It's the earliest memory I have of something like fanficcing. I think their might have been a few hobbit style dwarf invasions to the prairie house.

I remember my best friend recapping tv shows as we walked to school. She'd tell me the whole story.
I know I did that for a friend who had no tv when I was 13 or so. I'd recap the X-files for her riding the bus.

She's still a fan. In this case though I didn't make things up.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Hee. While I was apparently born with eclectic taste. I seriously liked any story - didn't matter what it was. Kimba - the White Lion was my favorite tv show as a 6 year old. And I remember loving James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolat Factory. Favorite fairy tale? Was The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. Also was deeply in love with Robin Hood.

Hard to find many strong girl tales back then...although I'm sure I did.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Hee. While I was apparently born with eclectic taste. I seriously liked any story - didn't matter what it was.

:) I had to work up to that. I liked a lot of books as a kid, but I definitely had some boards inside my head back then.

I would refuse anything that I perceived as a love story and stories without a fantastic element still needed lots of adventure (I loved the three musketeers at 8, to pieces). Jane Austen though I only read at 20, I'm not sure I'd have been able to value her much earlier.

Also was deeply in love with Robin Hood.

Me too!!!

I try to think back to Fairy Tales. I liked Sindbad, Ali Baba, lots of 1001 nights stories. Also loved Odysseus. But I don't think those qualify as fairy tales...

I knew them, but I didn't much like their moralistic side. Andersen I liked but he was always so sad.


Hard to find many strong girl tales back then...although I'm sure I did.

I loved it when I stumbled on them, but it was rare. Most of the time I identified with the male protagonists.