Connor Chronicles, and yes, I am still alive.
Well, hello there. I haven't even been able to glance at my flist for weeks, it seems. But this will not last forever. Sooner or later the pressure from my course has got to lighten up...I'm heading into the last quarter now, and I'm sure to get some sort of break when my first year is finished...aren't I? Please?
Anyway, I thought I'd just say I'm heading off to the Island to spend the next three or four days with my Mother, and as tomorrow is a "special" day, I didn't want any of you to think I was ignoring you...she has her MAC on some old browser that just doesn't work for me. I don't know how she can stand it! And every time I try to upgrade it to the proper browser, it says she needs a new version of the software which, hey, may cost a few bucks, so she's not gonna go there, because she is perfectly happy with the browser she's got...you see the problem?
What it means is, I'm out of touch until the weekend. In case you wondered. LOL!
And also, I did do some mildly pleasurable writing on Goddesses in modern media context, so I thought I'd pass that along, too. Here it is:
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Come with me if you want to live. /end Austrian accent
If you were a fan of the original Terminator and/or especially Terminator II, I highly recommend this new series, a mid-season replacement. Fox has broadcast about three or four episodes already, but they are re-broadcasting the premiere episode tonight at 8:00 p.m. (which I imagine is Eastern as well as Pacific).
James Cameron, who wrote the Terminator films, also wrote Alien II, Strange Days, and of course, Titanic.
If you think about it, the common thread that runs through all of these films, is their focus on incredibly strong, independent, and heroic female characters. Women who are able to save not only themselves, but those they love-- Archetypal Warrior Goddesses.
In Terminator II, Cameron turned his then-wife, Linda Hamilton, from the gentle, romantic, heroine of Beauty and the Beast, into a buff, single-minded, killing machine, every bit the equal of the real machines sent from the future to obliterate her and her son, John. The legend has it, it took Hamilton a year to get into physical shape to take on the role...and it showed. The tiniest of women became the scariest of warriors.
Sigourney Weaver had the physical advantage of appearing tall and strong to begin with, but she, too, had to endure extreme physical training to go from the Ridley in the original Alien to the one who destroys the Bitch-Queen alien in order to protect a little girl in Alien II.
In the lesser-known Strange Days, Angela Bassett has the role of Mace, protector of Ralph Fiennes' loser character, and she, too, is a physical force to be reckoned with. This is one of my favorite films, and if you missed it, it's worth a look, especially from the perspective of eight years after Y2K. It's amazing the things we thought might happen on that ominous date, LOL!
Kate Winslet is far from the physical Warrior Goddess when we see her in Titanic, but that is what she becomes in the part of the movie we don't see, the part between the sinking, and her voyage as an elderly woman, to return that humungous heart-shaped gem to the ocean. She was the woman who had the guts to deny, not only the man who wanted to marry and completely control her, but her family and her entire identity; to start out again as a penniless immigrant arrived in a supposedly "new world," who became a daredevil horseback diver!
When you think of it, what Cameron gave us in Titanic was the Kate comparable to the first Terminator and the first Alien. He would have to make Titanic II to show us how Kate evolved, and let's face it, that isn't going to happen.
What we have in The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a chance to see the third-stage Warrior Goddess. Lena Headey has the role of Sarah this time. She's not as buff, nor as single-minded as Hamilton, and she seems emotionally more vulnerable, but she has a whole season to fill, rather than two hours, so she's going to have to employ at lot more emotion if she's going to keep our attention.
And we have either a substitute Warrior Goddess, or a sidekick: tiny, exquisite Summer Glau, as the cleverly named "Cameron."
Now there's a suitable homage to a truly creative and Goddess-loving mind.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
FOX, Mondays, 8:00 p.m.
Dub ;o)
E.T.A.: I just realized, if absolutely everyone has already said they detest this series, well, I just don't know about it. So, um, I'm not dissing you, I'm writing this with no prior knowledge of what has been going on. Oh jeez, I really gotta take some time to read my flist...soon!! I promise! ;o)
Anyway, I thought I'd just say I'm heading off to the Island to spend the next three or four days with my Mother, and as tomorrow is a "special" day, I didn't want any of you to think I was ignoring you...she has her MAC on some old browser that just doesn't work for me. I don't know how she can stand it! And every time I try to upgrade it to the proper browser, it says she needs a new version of the software which, hey, may cost a few bucks, so she's not gonna go there, because she is perfectly happy with the browser she's got...you see the problem?
What it means is, I'm out of touch until the weekend. In case you wondered. LOL!
And also, I did do some mildly pleasurable writing on Goddesses in modern media context, so I thought I'd pass that along, too. Here it is:
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Come with me if you want to live. /end Austrian accent
If you were a fan of the original Terminator and/or especially Terminator II, I highly recommend this new series, a mid-season replacement. Fox has broadcast about three or four episodes already, but they are re-broadcasting the premiere episode tonight at 8:00 p.m. (which I imagine is Eastern as well as Pacific).
James Cameron, who wrote the Terminator films, also wrote Alien II, Strange Days, and of course, Titanic.
If you think about it, the common thread that runs through all of these films, is their focus on incredibly strong, independent, and heroic female characters. Women who are able to save not only themselves, but those they love-- Archetypal Warrior Goddesses.
In Terminator II, Cameron turned his then-wife, Linda Hamilton, from the gentle, romantic, heroine of Beauty and the Beast, into a buff, single-minded, killing machine, every bit the equal of the real machines sent from the future to obliterate her and her son, John. The legend has it, it took Hamilton a year to get into physical shape to take on the role...and it showed. The tiniest of women became the scariest of warriors.
Sigourney Weaver had the physical advantage of appearing tall and strong to begin with, but she, too, had to endure extreme physical training to go from the Ridley in the original Alien to the one who destroys the Bitch-Queen alien in order to protect a little girl in Alien II.
In the lesser-known Strange Days, Angela Bassett has the role of Mace, protector of Ralph Fiennes' loser character, and she, too, is a physical force to be reckoned with. This is one of my favorite films, and if you missed it, it's worth a look, especially from the perspective of eight years after Y2K. It's amazing the things we thought might happen on that ominous date, LOL!
Kate Winslet is far from the physical Warrior Goddess when we see her in Titanic, but that is what she becomes in the part of the movie we don't see, the part between the sinking, and her voyage as an elderly woman, to return that humungous heart-shaped gem to the ocean. She was the woman who had the guts to deny, not only the man who wanted to marry and completely control her, but her family and her entire identity; to start out again as a penniless immigrant arrived in a supposedly "new world," who became a daredevil horseback diver!
When you think of it, what Cameron gave us in Titanic was the Kate comparable to the first Terminator and the first Alien. He would have to make Titanic II to show us how Kate evolved, and let's face it, that isn't going to happen.
What we have in The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a chance to see the third-stage Warrior Goddess. Lena Headey has the role of Sarah this time. She's not as buff, nor as single-minded as Hamilton, and she seems emotionally more vulnerable, but she has a whole season to fill, rather than two hours, so she's going to have to employ at lot more emotion if she's going to keep our attention.
And we have either a substitute Warrior Goddess, or a sidekick: tiny, exquisite Summer Glau, as the cleverly named "Cameron."
Now there's a suitable homage to a truly creative and Goddess-loving mind.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
FOX, Mondays, 8:00 p.m.
Dub ;o)
E.T.A.: I just realized, if absolutely everyone has already said they detest this series, well, I just don't know about it. So, um, I'm not dissing you, I'm writing this with no prior knowledge of what has been going on. Oh jeez, I really gotta take some time to read my flist...soon!! I promise! ;o)