That was a really cool episode, although I felt like they kinda did the dream-vs.-reality switch perhaps less well than they could have. Kinda loved everything about it otherwise, though -- the moment in the cafeteria where Sarah's feeling threatened by the idea of John liking Cameron's pancakes (hehehe) was so deft, I loved it. That little touch of surreal. And Dana was, like, mesmerizingly hot, wasn't she? I loved that.
I do love Sarah's ongoing concerns about John and Cameron, not least because... they're not unreasonable.
And Dana WAS hot. I loved the show for that, for giving us a woman who's not stick skinny and yet is not just attractive but presented IN THE SHOW as attractive, who's clever and mouthy and totally upfront about her interest in younger men and is not condemned for it either by Sarah or by the show's narrative.
I really am enjoying this show like nothing else on TV right now.
And as a sidenote: the contrast with this week's Dollhouse could not have been more stark. Seriously.
I rewatched 2x13-2x15 last week, and for me the horrible and telling pairing is "The Good Wound"/"The Target" which are object lessons in how to do and how not to do female suffering. In one of them it's treated as a serious subject, we see pain and strength, we see the least eroticized female fear and pain I've ever seen. I mean, seriously, the camera work! It's amazing.
And in the other one a nubile girl with heaving breasts is hunted like a deer.
And okay, I personally think Eliza Dushku is WAY SEXIER than Lena Headley, but it's really not about the actresses or the ages of the actresses. It's about cinematography and writing and *framing*.
...for me the horrible and telling pairing is "The Good Wound"/"The Target" which are object lessons in how to do and how not to do female suffering.
Ooooh. Agreed, though I hadn't thought of it until you mentioned it. And you are so right about the camera work; Sarah getting shot is some of the unsexiest female suffering I've ever seen in any visual medium, and I mean that in the best possible way.
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And Dana WAS hot. I loved the show for that, for giving us a woman who's not stick skinny and yet is not just attractive but presented IN THE SHOW as attractive, who's clever and mouthy and totally upfront about her interest in younger men and is not condemned for it either by Sarah or by the show's narrative.
I really am enjoying this show like nothing else on TV right now.
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I rewatched 2x13-2x15 last week, and for me the horrible and telling pairing is "The Good Wound"/"The Target" which are object lessons in how to do and how not to do female suffering. In one of them it's treated as a serious subject, we see pain and strength, we see the least eroticized female fear and pain I've ever seen. I mean, seriously, the camera work! It's amazing.
And in the other one a nubile girl with heaving breasts is hunted like a deer.
And okay, I personally think Eliza Dushku is WAY SEXIER than Lena Headley, but it's really not about the actresses or the ages of the actresses. It's about cinematography and writing and *framing*.
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Ooooh. Agreed, though I hadn't thought of it until you mentioned it. And you are so right about the camera work; Sarah getting shot is some of the unsexiest female suffering I've ever seen in any visual medium, and I mean that in the best possible way.
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