( Finale + general season reactions ... fine, it's absolutely ranty, I make no apologies )

When I started talking about romance, I hoped to balance out my negative issues with positive appreciation, but I think, as usual, I veered more toward the criticism. I'm all for critical thinking, but today I thought I'd just talk about some couples/love stories/etc that I actually really like, and why I like them. It also let me procrastinate ( Read more... )

Note: Everything in this post is just my opinion.  I don't intend to suggest anything about how anyone else should feel or what they should or shouldn't like, I honestly don't want that responsibility.  I feel like I have to say this because LJ/fandom/whatnot can be very sensitive since ids are relatively exposed,a and colliding ids can be ( Read more... )

Sorry for the doublepost, but one more thing: my Mad Men Secret Santa gift, Lane Pryce icons and the most adorable Pete and Trudy art!

:D It is awesome.

An Englishman said to me recently, "You Americans live on a much higher plane of expectancy than we do. You constantly work toward some impossible goal of happiness and perfection, and you unfortunately don't have our ability just to give up. Really, it's much easier to accept the fact that some things can't be solved." He is right; we never accept ( Read more... )

Tonight's Mad Men threads were the bestest. That is all I'm gonna say. ♥

My phone needs a name, take my poll?

Mad Men - One of the things that's so appreciated about this show is how it displays male characters being realistically sexist, from the boys club at the office to attitudes about female sexuality and so on. This is useful because, as a past that is not all that distant, the 60's can readily reflect on today's society and at the same time have ( Read more... )

From redcandle17:

Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I'll give you either (a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon, (b) a reason he/she sucks, (c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes, (d) five things that never happened to that character or (e) five people that character never fell in love with and why. You pick the character. I pick the ( Read more... )

So at madmen_tv today this article was posted that reminded me just how stupid people's gender issues ideas can be. Mad Men is so the opposite of a sexist show, if there were more shows like Mad Men on TV then I'd feel a whole lot better about the fate of western civilization than I currently do. And I'm not exaggerating. Well, not much. And it occurs ( Read more... )