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[shadowkat]

1. I think I have a cold. Either that or my allergies have gotten carried away. Been sniffling and sneezing all day long, yet, oddly less so outside. You'd think with all the flowering trees it would be the opposite.

The day? Beautiful. Too beautiful for a windowless cubicle. Although do have a nice picture of sail-boat on the ocean in Hilton Head at sunset. If you don't have windows? Make your own.
Also took a nice stroll around the park - it was the sort of day in which the colors are so pitch perfect and bright that you aren't quite sure it's real. Like wandering around in a 3 D photograph - where someone has brightened all the colors using photo-shop.

2. A friend pointed this out to me today regarding Once Upon a Time -

"Isn't it interesting that the only sexy characters in this show are the villains? They are the one's wearing the sexy and tight clothing, have the great hairstyles, and makeup. While everyone else is dressed normally."

My response? I thought, wait...this is true of all (okay maybe not all, most or many) sci-fi fantasy tv shows. [ETA: Too many darn fact-checkers on lj, you can't get away with any sort of hyperbole whatsoever. **grins**] Particularly American ones. Excluding Farscape - which wasn't exactly American and is the exception. Vampire Diaries? Villains wear the sexy clothes and are the sex symbols. Buffy? Ditto. (Spike vs. Riley, Faith vs. Buffy, VampWillow vs. Willow..heck, VampXander vs. Xander.) Supernatural? Ditto. [ETA: Admittedly my memory of it is vague and have not been watching lately. But it seemed to be the case. Again wardrobe folks.] Angel? Ditto (compare Illyria to Fred...I rest my case.)

We really do have hang-ups about sex, don't we?

Friend: And this show (meaning Once Upon A Time) really underlines that.

Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It's not just Joss. Although it does track through his shows. I think it's a cultural thing.

A few shows, more cult and out there series, such as Farscape, have broken that model. Actually science fiction tv series break with it more than gothic fantasy/horror/fantasy shows for some reason. Star Trek broke the model. So it may well be genre specific?

[sophist.livejournal.com]

I'm very sure it's a cultural thing. I don't watch enough TV of any kind to judge beyond that, so I'll accept your TV slut expertise. :)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It's just a pattern I've been noticing in certain genres. Shows that are non-genre specific don't do sexy at all, people dress like everyone else.