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For tvrealm we had to do a "why you should watch" challenge. I chose Legend of the Seeker. Which means that there are a bunch of images of pretty people and pretty places and some meta about why I adore the show that can be found over on my graphics journal.


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I wrote a mini-essay (or rambling thoughts, whichever you prefer) about Darken Rahl and Kahlan's relationship in the Season 1 Finale from the POV of a Rahl/Kahlan shipper (somewhat, anyway).  Spoilers abound, obviously.  Can be found HERE if you are interested.

Thoughts on one particular aspect of the finale. I admit my immediate reaction was, "WTF is this fuckery?!", but I'm trying for a little more eloquence here:

Undoing "Doing It Right"

Following up from my last Cara meta, I'm focusing on one particular aspect of the latest episode - one that's not limited to LOTS, although this episode makes an excellent example. It's about bisexual characters in het relationships, and our reaction to that.

Cara Mason and the Bisexual Paradox

A few reasons why Cara's character is something special in today's TV landscape, touching on archetypes and sexuality among other things, but mostly me rambling about how they did it right:

We'll Always Have Cara

(contains some spoilers for the latest episode)

I'm not sure if this was explained at some point and I just missed it, but why is it that everyone goes to the same (unpleasant) underworld? People will talk about being rejoined with their family after they die, with the tone of it being a nice place for a reunion - do they just not know that they're be meeting up with their loved ones naked and ( Read more... )

Starter post for tags.

Please do use the tags, it'll make finding your post a lot easier down the road. (And seeing as season 2 has been bought, we have plenty more road ahead, whoo!)

Warning: Is SRS.  I'm 'bouts to get all meta on your fandom.  This is freaking long.  LONG.  Like you don't know how long this is, but it's longer than you think.  Also, please don't read half and then flame me.

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So, with last week's episode, I got to thinking about how the sense of distance seems to work in Legend of the Seeker.

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