Here’s another thing.

I agree that what OUAT should have done was to have queer characters from the get go.  They could have been original characters, or they could have been non-proprietary fairytale characters, like beanstalk Jack, whom the show did make into a woman.  For actualizing the much-ballyhooed “modern twist,” the showrunners could ( Read more... )

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WARNING: Long preamble. If you just want to get to the Sasha is Awesome parts, skip to the gigantic OKAY.


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Okay, now I'm basically just doing this for amusement :-).  I found a German review of the Rizzoli & Isles pilot, and put it through both Google Translate and Reverso.net.  The translations are even worse than for the French review I posted a couple of days ago, but the hilarity factor is proportionately higher!  However, if any real German ( Read more... )

I came across a French review of Rizzoli & Isles, and Google Translate gives me gems like "Jane Rizzoli, emeritus at Boston cop, is not the type to let him walk on his feet."  I tried another online translation site, and have come up with a kind of composite, self-edited translation, but can a real French speaker enlighten me/us as to the proper ( Read more... )

If you're not on Twitter, you may not have seen the winners for the 2010 Women's Image Network Awards presented on Tuesday, January 18, 2011.  The WIN website says the organization aims to "shape positive public opinion about the value of women and girls by celebrating outstanding film and television that fosters powerful and dimensional female ( Read more... )

A few (okay, more than a few) years ago, when I lived in a land far, far away, I remember a controversy in the U.S. sparked by a talk show host saying that African-Americans were better at basketball/sports because slavery had bred better physical prowess into them compared to whites. At that time, I was fairly clueless about (i) structural racism ( Read more... )

So I googled "Rizzoli Isles script" to see if any others beside the pilot one were available, and it turns out a kind soul recently uploaded a pdf file of the August 27, 2009 version of the pilot script.  That version is dated one week later than the one I discussed in earlier posts ( 1. Introduction to Maura, 2. Jane and Maura meet Dean, 3. Jane ( Read more... )

Rizzoli & Isles has been mentioned in a few year-end TV lists, so I thought it would be useful to compile a list. But when it got down to it, I could only track down three year-end mentions, so I’m also including three articles that came out around the time of the pilot for their advocacy of Jane and Maura to get it on :-).

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This extract from the August 20, 2009 draft of the pilot script (here are Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) covers the final scenes.  They play out pretty differently in lots of interesting respects, and there are several things that Jane/Maura shippers should find pleasing, including physical contact!

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