Nikki is my favorite part of Big Love. I'm going to be very sorry when your Top 100 series ends; I'm enjoying the hell out of all the awesome ladies you've featured.
Speaking of awesome ladies, I believe that you are also a fan of Bellatrix? I recently ran across and reread another of my favorite Bella fics (I've been on a kick rereading fics I loved waaay back in the day), and I think you'd really like it. It features a young Bellatrix and Sirius attending a garden party. The social fabric of the wizarding world is just staring to unravel, and, with it, the friendship between the two cousins. And, most importantly, it centers around a rousing game of (magical) capture the flag.
I often wonder if someone other than Chloe had played Nikki if I would have enjoyed her character more. I really, really hate Chloe and find her so annoying and therefore automatically hated the character of Nikki from day 1. It's a bit of a chicken vs. the egg situation, do I hate Nikki because she played by Chloe or do I hate Chloe more because she plays Nikki?
hahaha I also hate Chloe Sevigny. She always seems so self-satisfied and like she thinks she's kind of a big deal, and I want to punch her in her smug face. However, so long as she's dressed as Nicki, I can usually keep it at bay.
She really, really does especially for someone who's been paid to give a blow job in a movie. I want people to remind her of that in interviews, like "you know there's almost no difference between you and porn star, right?"
I'm so torn about Chloe. On the one hand, the first two films I saw her in were Boys Don't Cry, and If These Walls Could Talk 2, the latter of which is one of my favorite movies Of. All. Time. Not the first segment, though, because that one makes me cry. But the other two? OMG, so there.
Then she became all fucking smug and well, fucking *French*, as Eddie would say. I literally have not watched another single thing she's done since then except for one episode of Big Love. It was in one of the first two seasons and she was being manipulative about money in the episode (money for her kids' stuff, as opposed to family money, or something to that effect).
So. I still can't decide how I feel about her. And I doubt she gives a single flying fuck about that, LOL.
This was so fascinating for me to read. I am still in high school and I have very strict Mormon parents who force me to observe all the rules, so to speak, of the LDS church.
Although I disagree with many of the principles and plan to cut off most ties to the church as soon as I leave home, I do feel a certain defensiveness for the incredible amount of black-balling directed at Mormons. I think a character like Nicki, even though she is not a member of the "mainstream" LDS church, is quite an effective example of just the contradictory aspects in many Mormon women's personalities. I personally have experienced a lot of sexism in the Mormom church, albeit not of the FDLS' intensity, and I've noticed a lot of hesitance among women, perhaps due to loyalty to the church or to male figures in their lives (like Nicki's father and husband) to admit that the way they are being treated is not okay.
I hope at least some of this comment made sense. I obviously have a lot of strong feelings on the matter ;)
No, I totally understand what you're saying. My cousins and my younger sister who are all still involved in the church are always so quick to say the church puts no pressure on them to stay home with children and not work or finish college, but I know for a fact my sister wanted to finish nursing school but her husband didn't think it was appropriate to put their baby in daycare. It's the same rationale for why women can't receive the priesthood. "Well, women are really above of us, so we don't want to bring you down to our level by giving you the priesthood." Right, we're above you and that's why you decide everything?
I mean, there are a lot of things I dislike about the LDS church, but there are good points as well, and I hate how everyone gets labeled a fundamentalist.
"Well, women are really above of us, so we don't want to bring you down to our level by giving you the priesthood." Right, we're above you and that's why you decide everything? EXACTLY. I've been trying to articulate that for a while now.
I actually had a lesson in Young Women (I'm assuming you know what that is; it's a bit odd using church-y phrases on the Internet, lol) a few weeks ago where a leader asked, presumably out of a genuinely goodhearted place, "Does anyone here have a problem with the fact that women can't hold the priesthood?" I raised my hand. We talked about it for a while, and the leader actually said, "Well, I just think if women were allowed to be given the priesthood, does that mean we should give men the ability to have children?" Which, um. No.
First off, people shouldn't equate holding the priesthood with motherhood like that, because that is enforcing gender roles like whoa. Secondly, the priesthood is a "gift" that is given to men, whereas women are born with uteruses. Being able to have children does not
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I'm SO glad you included Nicki in this series, because I totally agree with everything you've said about her. She's really REALLY difficult to like sometimes (particularly when she gets really snarky with Barb and bullies Margene), but there's so much nuance to her character, and her perspective on the polygamist lifestyle is a really great contrast to Barb's and Margene's, since the latter two are coming at it as outsiders.
Even when the show sort of went off the rails in the last couple of seasons, Nicki remained super captivating. And I guess I'm in the minority here, because I kind of dig Chloe Sevigny, pretentious though she may be. ;)
Yeah, the last couple of seasons were bizarre (what the hell was that whole storyline with Nicki's ex-husband and knocking everyone up?) but I feel like Season 3 was definitely a high point for Nicki.
I want to like Chloe because she's so amazingly talented, but every time I read an interview with her, I just look at her in confusion and shake my head.
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Speaking of awesome ladies, I believe that you are also a fan of Bellatrix? I recently ran across and reread another of my favorite Bella fics (I've been on a kick rereading fics I loved waaay back in the day), and I think you'd really like it. It features a young Bellatrix and Sirius attending a garden party. The social fabric of the wizarding world is just staring to unravel, and, with it, the friendship between the two cousins. And, most importantly, it centers around a rousing game of (magical) capture the flag.
You should check it out the next time you're in the HP mood: http://alyxbradford.livejournal.com/66527.html#cutid1
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Well, this one is almost over, but I'm thinking about doing another one, so we'll see.
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Then she became all fucking smug and well, fucking *French*, as Eddie would say. I literally have not watched another single thing she's done since then except for one episode of Big Love. It was in one of the first two seasons and she was being manipulative about money in the episode (money for her kids' stuff, as opposed to family money, or something to that effect).
So. I still can't decide how I feel about her. And I doubt she gives a single flying fuck about that, LOL.
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Although I disagree with many of the principles and plan to cut off most ties to the church as soon as I leave home, I do feel a certain defensiveness for the incredible amount of black-balling directed at Mormons. I think a character like Nicki, even though she is not a member of the "mainstream" LDS church, is quite an effective example of just the contradictory aspects in many Mormon women's personalities. I personally have experienced a lot of sexism in the Mormom church, albeit not of the FDLS' intensity, and I've noticed a lot of hesitance among women, perhaps due to loyalty to the church or to male figures in their lives (like Nicki's father and husband) to admit that the way they are being treated is not okay.
I hope at least some of this comment made sense. I obviously have a lot of strong feelings on the matter ;)
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I mean, there are a lot of things I dislike about the LDS church, but there are good points as well, and I hate how everyone gets labeled a fundamentalist.
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I actually had a lesson in Young Women (I'm assuming you know what that is; it's a bit odd using church-y phrases on the Internet, lol) a few weeks ago where a leader asked, presumably out of a genuinely goodhearted place, "Does anyone here have a problem with the fact that women can't hold the priesthood?" I raised my hand. We talked about it for a while, and the leader actually said, "Well, I just think if women were allowed to be given the priesthood, does that mean we should give men the ability to have children?" Which, um. No.
First off, people shouldn't equate holding the priesthood with motherhood like that, because that is enforcing gender roles like whoa. Secondly, the priesthood is a "gift" that is given to men, whereas women are born with uteruses. Being able to have children does not ( ... )
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Even when the show sort of went off the rails in the last couple of seasons, Nicki remained super captivating. And I guess I'm in the minority here, because I kind of dig Chloe Sevigny, pretentious though she may be. ;)
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I want to like Chloe because she's so amazingly talented, but every time I read an interview with her, I just look at her in confusion and shake my head.
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