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In case anyone who cares didn't realize this: Lie to Me returns this evening! I admit I'm a little skeptical that the things I didn't like about the first half of season 2 will be perpetuated in the back half (especially after I saw an interview with one of the writers who basically said that turning it into The Show Where Cal Takes Lots of Stupid
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(Although right now my brain is a little overcome with an original story, and I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT'S ABOUT!!! I haven't written original fiction since early college, and I feel like I wouldn't even know where to begin. But suddenly there are these two women in my head with stories that I sort of want to tell, and, well, yeah. ?!?!?!? I have really never aspired to write stories about my own characters! I like to analyze other people's characters in fictional form! I'm confused!)
My favorite thing about that CJ remix (which I thought it captured better than the original, as well) was how tangibly you could see CJ's compromises and the ambivalence she feels about them. Because CJ-the-press-secretary is not the same firebrand as CJ-the-20-year-old-radical-feminist, and the space between them is so understandable and so common. I love the juxtaposition between CJ and her friend Alice, where CJ looks at her and sees the space between them and understands all of the perfectly good reasons for it, yet part of her regrets it, too. But in the original story CJ's stockings have a run in them that she can't fix, and in the remix they don't, and somehow that's metonymic of the stories as a whole. CJ is righteous and right and awesome, but she also sees how fucking complicated it all is in a way that her 20-year-old self did not. For better or worse.
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