That was a good Sunday

Well, as good as a day that included 'The Phantom Menace' can be.
... I kept saying the other films are better and sibling kept saying 'it gets better later', and we were saying the same things right up until the big battle at the end.
I like the sword fight but would want to re-edit it so it wasn't all mixed up with the other things.
Also no film needs that much Anakin.
Also also there are a number of very sketchy aspects to that movie.
I can see why there's so much fanfic. The right combination of pretty guys, theoretically intense emotional relationships we hardly got to see, and general feeling of could do better.

Also today there was Sunday breakfast at Morrisons, only they'd run out of most of the things. I could still have my food but sibling had to choose different food. Eggs for everyone today.
And then we did shopping. He picked up the Hobbit film and asked if it was the same Hobbit we'd seen last weekend and I said no it is a trilogy, and then he put it back. So I guess he wanted the one he had seen? I wonder if he's seen the others. Maybe next week we shall watch Hobbits.
I'm all out of Star Wars, on account of having enough taste not to buy the rest of the prequels.

Really, that movie needed rewriting so it was ... much less bad. Not going on about taxes for paragraphs. Less racist.

It did have more than one woman in though so that's nice. ... many are literally the same woman several times, which says something about how the writer thinks, but still, several women. :eyeroll:

The thing with Star Wars is it's just cool enough that I can totally understand hanging out in that universe, and have some of the books though I haven't read them... possibly since the 90s, but it just wasn't very well done. So it's grump making. Oh well.

Maybe better next time :-)

Ancient history

Something that has been bugging me lately about texts that get called feminist and groundbreaking: they're usually not that new.

It feels like spinning wheels in mud, to be told something is new and shiny over and over again. Look at all the progress we made! Working so hard!

So when prejudice and misogyny get shown, they get pushed back as far into the before as possible, so it's something that happened to grandparents maybe. Parents if you must. But it's in the before. And it's meant to be high contrast, because they show the stuff that's so obvious and ugly, and then haha, punch it in the face, that'll totally work.

And then we're meant to be happy that we get such a new and shiny female character, who can kick butt and be feminine, wow, we never had that before!

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Maybe I'm watching the wrong shows. I'd love to hear about shows doing all the things I want. I mean I don't watch much that's on TV lately, I end up getting DVD box sets, I'm probably missing a bunch of cool.

But I get somewhere between tired and scared when something gets proclaimed again as all all new! and groundbreaking! because it's like being given last year's worn out christmas presents and being told we're happy with them.


Gender pay gaps still yawn hugely, casting ratios still run at about 2:1 male to female, women directors are losing ground as a percentage for some years now, women's stories are considered lower priority so female characters are expendable, and whenever we get a female led show or movie announced everyone crowds around it cheering like someone lit a campfire in alaska. But we should be lighting it up all everywhere, taking half the places, half the screentime, half the stars.

Don't settle for anything less.

And don't forget. Don't let them recycle progress.
We should have had it all along.