I collect links to never read

[trinityvixen]

When I'm bored at work, I scour the internet. The problem is that the internet is done by about three hours into my scouring, far as I'm concerned, and then I'm bored. This boredom is made worse by all the links to things I can't read or can't focus enough on to make a coherent post about whatever it is. So I'm going to just collect links here and think about it later. Maybe.

-Predator 2: Not as bad as you think! What? It wasn't! It's nowhere near as smart as Predator. It's fantastically cheesy at parts, too. But it did some effective things. The disc alone means I can forgive this movie because it lead to my favorite activity in playing one-on-one battles with feiran, which was sniping her with the fucking disc. All joking aside, there were some interesting ideas thrown around this movie, and a few genuine laughs, like when the police chase a bad guy onto a subway and fully ten commuters draw guns on the bad guy, too. Or when Gary Busey showed up. Laugh a minute, that.

-This may be a totally relevant and cogent post about how Glee isn't as progressive/transgressive as you think, but I can't read it because I'm still watching the show. Damn it. But I could have told you that. I mean, yay, it has a stable of characters that include people of color, a disabled student, and a gay student. But the show has really missed some opportunities to do more than just throw "teachable moments" at us. For all that I love Kurt, he was the one who pushed and pushed and pushed until [spoiler character] finally snapped and called him the F-word. It's not a nice word, and usage of it is still bad, but some acknowledgment that Kurt provoked it might have been nice. Because gay people are people, too, and sometimes they are pricks. Also, guess what? All the female characters are still crazy and/or evil. PROGRESS.

-I like this stand! Possibly to use to hide kitty litter!

Comments

Re: Oh, no spoilers

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Why can't it be, though? What's wrong with wanting better? He's saying that a show that makes this much effort to be different than usual wouldn't be ill-served to go all the way. I think that's probably true.

Re: Oh, no spoilers

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Because I don't think you can go all the way without dropping the entertainment value. Part of what makes the scene in "Theatricality" so great is that there isn't a clear message out of it. Instead, the characters, acting with imperfect information and their own motives, get into a big fight where there is no clear good guy. Do you want there to be a clear good guy--maybe the gay kid isn't a stalker? Maybe Kurt's dad acts like a perfect voice of author and calls Kurt out on his talking too? But that weakens the ambiguity of the scene.

There are 3 Asian characters, 2 of them more or less fully fleshed out, one of them's sort of a villain (and I'd contest the description of Ken Tanaka as a villain--he's a sympathetic loser; Santana and Sue are the first half villains.) But the good Asian character also does a jerky thing in faking a speech disability. Such is life--even faking the disability, she's one of the most admirable of this bunch of people. What more do you want, a pre-affair Tiger Woods to showcase the goodness of Asian-Americans? There are Asian characters, they act like people, they aren't stereotypes (none of them are studious geeks!)

It's a show about a bunch of teens in a semi-rural Northern Ohio school in a Glee Club. It's entertaining. There's singing. The characters are mostly well written. I'm not quite sure what more the article's author wants or expects without ruining the entertainment.