Filmography
Jan. 18th, 2012 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_lady_lilyDoctor Who: Battlefield
More Sylvester McCoy, who I still don't think I've seen enough of! Combined with Arthurian legend, and a Morgane in a fabulous costume and excellent hair and a knightly code that was consistent and everything! Essentially it's a 'trying to fight Arthur and regain Excalibur' plot with creatures from another dimension, what can possibly go wrong, etc. I really enjoyed it and thought it was top drawer silliness. I also noticed some interesting gender politics stuff going on - namely, women were being awesome and were being valued for being awesome, and indeed were expected to be awesome and competent. It was really quite striking compared to New Who, where female competence has to be balanced out with a good dose of reassurance or victim narrative in order to make it all alright again.
Also, the Brigadier is awesome.
Sex and the City, Season 3
This is the series that the writers decided they could actually do serious story-lines, and, do you know, they actually got quite good at it. Not to deny the fact that there's still a lot of frippery and silliness, of course, but there's also some quite interesting and developed personality and relationship stuff going on there too. After the sheer fluffiness of the first two series, it's quite nice to see them actually stretch their wings and try going a bit further, even if (and let's be honest) there is still plenty of fail on the gender and sexuality politics front. I do wince, I do. But at least there are an equal amount of moments where I don't wince, and in a show with this particular set of themes, that must be a plus.
Wild Hogs
Wow, such a very thin plot and so many very problematic elements, of which gender issues, racial stereotyping and borderline homophobia were not the least. However, also some genuinely sweet and amusing bits, and John Travolta being fairly eye-candy-esque. Plus motorbikes. I mean, I think I've now reaffirmed by belief that I should probably not have bothered, but at least I did it in a reasonably light-impact way.
More Sylvester McCoy, who I still don't think I've seen enough of! Combined with Arthurian legend, and a Morgane in a fabulous costume and excellent hair and a knightly code that was consistent and everything! Essentially it's a 'trying to fight Arthur and regain Excalibur' plot with creatures from another dimension, what can possibly go wrong, etc. I really enjoyed it and thought it was top drawer silliness. I also noticed some interesting gender politics stuff going on - namely, women were being awesome and were being valued for being awesome, and indeed were expected to be awesome and competent. It was really quite striking compared to New Who, where female competence has to be balanced out with a good dose of reassurance or victim narrative in order to make it all alright again.
Also, the Brigadier is awesome.
Sex and the City, Season 3
This is the series that the writers decided they could actually do serious story-lines, and, do you know, they actually got quite good at it. Not to deny the fact that there's still a lot of frippery and silliness, of course, but there's also some quite interesting and developed personality and relationship stuff going on there too. After the sheer fluffiness of the first two series, it's quite nice to see them actually stretch their wings and try going a bit further, even if (and let's be honest) there is still plenty of fail on the gender and sexuality politics front. I do wince, I do. But at least there are an equal amount of moments where I don't wince, and in a show with this particular set of themes, that must be a plus.
Wild Hogs
Wow, such a very thin plot and so many very problematic elements, of which gender issues, racial stereotyping and borderline homophobia were not the least. However, also some genuinely sweet and amusing bits, and John Travolta being fairly eye-candy-esque. Plus motorbikes. I mean, I think I've now reaffirmed by belief that I should probably not have bothered, but at least I did it in a reasonably light-impact way.
