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usuallyhats) wrote2013-04-21 03:53 pm
usuallyhats) wrote2013-04-21 03:53 pm
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next stop, Gotham City
- I really enjoyed this post about The Legend of Korra on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ladybusiness: they get into lots of interesting issues about the baggage we bring to texts and how that influences how we see them, evaluating an ongoing canon, how two people can look at a text and see two different things without either of them being wrong, and also how Lin and Asami and Korra are awesome.
- Two Gentlemen of Verona was a DELIGHT (except the scenes that weren't meant to be). It's clearly a plot with... flaws, shall we say - Shakespeare revisited bits of it in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and got away with it a bit better because love potions - but the cast managed to carry it off with a combination of conviction and lampshading the more ridiculous bits. I particularly enjoyed the staging right at the end: Valentine cheerfully announces that he, Sylvia (his fiancée), Proteus (his best friend) and Julia (Proteus's fiancée) are all going to go off and live together in one big house, despite the fact that Proteus has only just repented of a) ditching Julia immediately on seeing Sylvia, despite knowing that Sylvia and Valentine were in love, b) throwing Valentine to the wolves and getting him banished, c) pursuing and eventually attacking Sylvia despite her being unequivocally Not Interested. Sylvia has no dialogue in response to this, but when Valentine offers her his arm, she stares at him for a second, swings his sword (which she acquired earlier in the scene) onto her shoulder, and offers her arm to Julia (currently dressed as a boy) instead. And so the two of them strut off together, leaving the menfolk to scurry behind in their wake. Ace. I think it's fair to say that the dog stole the show, though.
- Anyone else going to Nine Worlds this August? I was v. excited to see that they're going to be screening the "Wonder Women!" documentary: I very much want to see it.
- Today's Li'l Gotham almost made me cry, it was so lovely. (It also made me giggle a lot.) I don't usually have any opinions on Mr Freeze, but his Li'l Gotham appearances have been so wonderful. BEST UNIVERSE. (With the usual "I wish Cass and Steph were allowed to appear" caveat, though at least this universe still has Oracle.)
- This is where my thoughts on yesterday's Doctor Who would have gone, if my video recorder hadn't CRUELLY BETRAYED me. Quick, to the BBC3 repeat!
ladybusiness: they get into lots of interesting issues about the baggage we bring to texts and how that influences how we see them, evaluating an ongoing canon, how two people can look at a text and see two different things without either of them being wrong, and also how Lin and Asami and Korra are awesome.- Two Gentlemen of Verona was a DELIGHT (except the scenes that weren't meant to be). It's clearly a plot with... flaws, shall we say - Shakespeare revisited bits of it in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and got away with it a bit better because love potions - but the cast managed to carry it off with a combination of conviction and lampshading the more ridiculous bits. I particularly enjoyed the staging right at the end: Valentine cheerfully announces that he, Sylvia (his fiancée), Proteus (his best friend) and Julia (Proteus's fiancée) are all going to go off and live together in one big house, despite the fact that Proteus has only just repented of a) ditching Julia immediately on seeing Sylvia, despite knowing that Sylvia and Valentine were in love, b) throwing Valentine to the wolves and getting him banished, c) pursuing and eventually attacking Sylvia despite her being unequivocally Not Interested. Sylvia has no dialogue in response to this, but when Valentine offers her his arm, she stares at him for a second, swings his sword (which she acquired earlier in the scene) onto her shoulder, and offers her arm to Julia (currently dressed as a boy) instead. And so the two of them strut off together, leaving the menfolk to scurry behind in their wake. Ace. I think it's fair to say that the dog stole the show, though.
- Anyone else going to Nine Worlds this August? I was v. excited to see that they're going to be screening the "Wonder Women!" documentary: I very much want to see it.
- Today's Li'l Gotham almost made me cry, it was so lovely. (It also made me giggle a lot.) I don't usually have any opinions on Mr Freeze, but his Li'l Gotham appearances have been so wonderful. BEST UNIVERSE. (With the usual "I wish Cass and Steph were allowed to appear" caveat, though at least this universe still has Oracle.)
- This is where my thoughts on yesterday's Doctor Who would have gone, if my video recorder hadn't CRUELLY BETRAYED me. Quick, to the BBC3 repeat!