It has occurred to me that River Tam (Firefly) is actually a fairly clever remix of Victorian ideas about women's education.

Think about it: A young girl (River Tam) insists on going to a serious school (the Academy, where she studies graduate physics, among other things, according to the R. Tam Sessions) and competing against boys (she says that a ( Read more... )

Okay, this is cute. As vidder absolut3destiny describes it: "Sydney, Buffy, Starbuck, Zoe and Veronica enjoy what they do very much."



Accessed via imeem.

Shiny. Much of Simon, and Kaylee, and River, good choice of music, good choice of clips, well-edited and, well, shiny.

Go here for the vid.

Vid by lierdumoa. I was led to it by a recommendation from oceanas-recs.

(For the record, figuring out the lj user thing took way too long for a supposedly bright girl like me.)

I'm revising the science-fiction archetypes proposed in my first post, after some discussion. Starting (appropriately) with:
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My first entry ever in LiveJournal, although I've been browsing for a while. In the (very) off chance that anyone wants to know why I bothered - I got sick of getting blocked from reading things, and the description didn't sound too awful. We'll see ( Read more... )