Comments | oyceter: Heroes 2x09 Cautionary Tales

oyceter

Heroes 2x09 Cautionary Tales

Nov 19, 2007 22:38

OMG. It is so fitting that my local news is now advertising a story: "Not your average blonde woman: the peculiar effects that blondes have on men." (quote taken verbatim, thanks to the joys of Tivo)

( SPOILERS HAVE MASSIVE RAGE )

tv: heroes, fist of feminist rage, tv, feminism

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thomasyan November 20 2007, 06:57:21 UTC

Console yourself with Gunslinger Girl volume 5 or Nodame Cantabile volume 11? Maybe I should go run out and by the RAISED BY PIGEONS manga. Heroes is giving me sadface, too.

oyceter November 20 2007, 06:59:42 UTC

Oooh. I don't read Nodame Cantabile, but I should catch up on the GG manga!

I am so giving Heroes the evil eye right now.

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thomasyan November 20 2007, 22:51:23 UTC

Live action drama!? I love the anime, which is very faithful to the manga, but I like the anime more, because it has music and great voice actors and it's animated. I hope the anime continues (it covers volumes 1-9). I did not know about the live action version....

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anonymous November 20 2007, 07:28:12 UTC

Um, in other news ... Gunslinger Girls is always an acceptable consolation prize. It is made of awesome.

seraphcelene November 20 2007, 07:28:59 UTC

Sorry, that was me.

oyceter November 20 2007, 23:52:38 UTC

Gunslinger Girl is very made of awesome. I think I only read two vols. of the manga so far, but I looove the anime.

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oyceter November 20 2007, 23:57:55 UTC

I love the icon so much! despotliz made it, should be shareable.

cryptoxin November 20 2007, 13:21:58 UTC

Wow -- I haven't watched it yet, and now I'm in no rush....

This, and the broader race and gender critiques, really put an interesting spin on Tim Kring's "we can't please everyone all the time" comment on Jason Mittell's blog here....

oyceter November 20 2007, 23:59:19 UTC

*sigh* Yeah. I mean... I am glad he is listening to fans. But I think what's wrong with Heroes isn't limited to the plot/storyline level, and I wish there were some acknowledgment that the writing team realized the politics of the show are getting skankier by the moment. Then I could at least hope that they might fix it.

cryptoxin November 21 2007, 00:16:09 UTC

Yeah, *sigh*....

I made a post today that linked to & quoted at length your critique of the episode, alongside a bunch of other quotes -- but I want to belatedly make sure that's okay with you (and apologies for not checking in with you sooner!), or if you'd prefer I revise or not link/quote.

oyceter November 21 2007, 00:20:04 UTC

Oh, no worries about the linking. I sort of assume that if it's not locked, it is up for grabs.

chr0me_kitten November 20 2007, 14:08:44 UTC

I'm at the point where it really feels like I'm simultaneously watching two shows. In terms of moving the narrative forward, last night's worked really well for me. In terms of just about everything else, STABBY is the best word for it.

oyceter November 20 2007, 23:59:57 UTC

Ugh, I know. I wanted to like it, because it has Mr. Bennet being grey, and I liked Hiro as always, but OMG. Hate West SO MUCH.