Random Round-Up! TV and Dreams of it.

[asato_muraki]

I can't decide whether I like this or am offended by it:


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On the one hand... Bowie. On the other... well, it says "totally gay" like it's a bad thing. I know that idiomatically, the phrase "totally gay" is slipping into gay = bad territory. Yet, the use here seems (to me, anyway) a bit of a thumbed nose at the idea that "totally gay" isn't also really cool. And possibly hot, depending on how you feel about the Goblin King. (Mrowr- tight pants!)

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Watched the end of Being Human, and even though I knew exactly what George was doing from the moment he told the vicar it was time he grew up, I think I am definitely now a huge fan of the show, and looking forward to the next series. As micehell mentioned, they even dressed Mitchell in something not entirely hideous for the last episode. Even though he's not Guy Flanagan, I suppose he'll do. *wink*

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PSA: Heroes kills brain cells. Zachary Quinto is hot, though. I may have to watch it with the volume off, or something. Oh, and shaved-headed military anti-mutant guy? Someone needs to slip him a mickey, strip him naked and take pictures of him with little boys in their underpants. I mean, if they can't kill him without strengthening his cause, I can't think of a better way to make him a complete pariah. But the writers would never do anything that interesting.

See, with some shows, you get the idea that they know where they are going, (Sarah Connor Chronicles, Battlestar Galactica) or even if they really don't, they give a decent impression that they do (Lost, BSG).

But I get the feeling that the Heroes writers have no clue whatsoever, beyond "Make Sylar creepy but sad, and make sure Claire's eyelashes never match any other hair on her body."

Eclipses that last for hours and are visible on opposite sides of the globe... I can overlook that if the characters actions make sense. ACK.

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Last night I dreamed I was on vacation with the Leverage people. Someone offered Nathan a keg for Eliot. He turned it down, which upset Eliot, who had obviously misapprehended the offer due to being quite drunk. At some point, I bit him and he laughed. Then I woke up. It was surreal.

Comments

[ravenspb.livejournal.com]

Totally gay=totally retarded to the people I have confronted about their use of the term. The problem with this is that they are attaching negative connotations to both "gay" and "retarded." To me, this has crossed the line into bad. The really big issue is that young gay men are saying that too much is being made of the term, that it's "only slang." This scares me.

[asatomuraki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe it's generational. I mean, it definitely sounds bigoted to me, and I had a talk with my older boy when he said it after hearing it at school. He said it was something everyone said and it didn't mean anything, and I told him I didn't care and if I heard him say it again there would be consequences. I was all like, "Gay is just another way that people are" and he rolled his eyes and said, "I know that, mom. That's not what it means."

I think I may be a stodgy old fogey.

[ravenspb.livejournal.com]

No, you're just being a good mom.

Just because a group of people decides that a word that brings pride and unification to one group can mean "stupid" to another one does not make it right. If it goes into wide use, as it has, the former group loses what pride in identification they have in the word.

[asatomuraki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's the same way with the word "bitch," sort of in reverse. It's the difference between a word chosen for pride (gay) being made derogatory, and a word that started out (and still is) derogatory being claimed for pride.

But what disturbs me is the long etymological history of equating effeminate or androgynous with deficiency. "You're such a girl" etc. It's something we bitches have in common with the gays. ;)