Thor and Sarah Jane
Oct. 4th, 2011 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I watched the Sarah Jane Adventures, and also Thor. One of them I have been looking forward to a long time and I love it and hug it and wish to keep it always. The other was just vaguely disappointing. Guess which one has the big budget?
The Sarah Jane Adventures makes me sad also, because I keep remembering she's gone. Sad. But the story is happy making. Mothers and daughters now. Awesomes. How often are save the world stories about mothers and daughters? Not so much often. But then I keep bumping into reality, and thinking Clyde and Rani (and Luke back from college) are going to have to raise Sky now or she'll go into care with people who have no idea how, especially since everyone else is gone. Hmmm, there's Mickey and Martha, or hey, Amy and Rory might like to adopt. They know something about little girls made to be weapons. River could be like an aunt who knows all the cool things and drops in to take Sky to all sorts of interesting places where she can zap the locks on things. ... I know the story is only just started and Sarah Jane might be immortal but... well, now I've thought up this plan I'm happier. :eyeroll: ANYway, I liked it. Simple story, funny bits, happy ending.
I still object strongly to not telling parents important things though. Usually if someone says not to tell your parents or your teachers or authority figures its because it's a very bad thing. Good things can be told. Everything should be told. It's important.
The bit with the nuclear power station made me :-( because I did a simulator of a nuclear power station when I was 8 or 9 or 10 and they don't work like that at all. But you can still make them work with clearly labelled buttons.
... also it made me :-( because in sister shows a runaway nuclear reactor leads to horrible dooms, and while part of why I like watching the CBBC version is the lack of horrible dooms, it does make it look a bit like they just never figured out the all important rainbow bit of the procedure. Happy endings that make the other heroic sacrifices look like death by stupid are a bit sad making, is what I'm saying. But I know I'm being daft.
I look forward to next week.
And then, Thor. *sigh* I know reading the fic first was not calculated to maximise my enjoyment, but Loki is so much more interesting than Thor. I kind of can't see the point of Thor. He was a big fighty shouty man at the start, and he was a big fighty shouty man at the end. When did he do any changing? Unless the change was realising he could die, which would make him a big stupid. Or maybe it was realising that his big fighting was leaving other people in danger, the bit where he went to evacuate people instead of charging in. That would be progress, but again, it would make him very very stupid to start with.
Loki is just sad. So good at lies he hears them under everyone. Big mess.
And they're both just trying to live up to their father.
Odin is the biggest failure. The bit where Thor said he was a good father? Oh hell no.
Fathers and sons again. Again! It's all bloomin fathers and sons.
I want to see a Wonder Woman film so it can be about mothers and daughters, trying to live up to the legacy of her mother the queen.
Wonder Woman isn't Superman in a skirt, because Superman is an immigrant from a ruined world, and he likes America better. He likes his new life and values and his real parents are the new American farmer parents. The basic message of Superman is a comforting one about how American values with superpowers would look just like this, and people would choose American values given the choice, and isn't America lovely? Whereas Diana is an Ambassador. She's been sent out here to tell us how we could do better and show us how we're doing it wrong. That's never going to be as popular, however much we need it. Just standing up saying this is man's world and women need to be helped is going to dent everyone's cosy bubble. The number of people who think we can stop doing feminism because we won already... the numbers just don't support that view. Even in the UK or USA. And there's a lot more world than that. So Wonder Woman comes out here to show us we could be better. And I like her for being a woman kicking arse and not needing men to define her anywhere. But she is neither cosy nor comforting.
A Wonder Woman film could be quite a lot like Thor, only you get the whole of Greek mythology to play with instead. Athena and Ares. Two different sides of war, the strategy thinking parts and the violent mayhem parts. Modern war wants to be all Athena, but the other side is everywhere too.
I fear a Wonder Woman reinvented for the current era would be sent to fight America's wars in the name of liberating women. Go kick foreigners around until they act civil. Instead of supporting local women, stomp in from outside.
Wonder Woman could go to America and fight... what specifically? Is always the problem. Easy to throw her at gorgons, not so simples to work her into this world.
But I like the mothers and daughters story. And then there's a third generation, or more, depending how many you import. And then it's like being big sister, or raising daughters. Mothers and daughters from both sides.
I looked at the deleted scenes on Thor and they seemed to get rid of his mother. Also Sif. Funny how that happens. *sigh*
The Sarah Jane Adventures has lots of women in now. I likes it.
The Sarah Jane Adventures makes me sad also, because I keep remembering she's gone. Sad. But the story is happy making. Mothers and daughters now. Awesomes. How often are save the world stories about mothers and daughters? Not so much often. But then I keep bumping into reality, and thinking Clyde and Rani (and Luke back from college) are going to have to raise Sky now or she'll go into care with people who have no idea how, especially since everyone else is gone. Hmmm, there's Mickey and Martha, or hey, Amy and Rory might like to adopt. They know something about little girls made to be weapons. River could be like an aunt who knows all the cool things and drops in to take Sky to all sorts of interesting places where she can zap the locks on things. ... I know the story is only just started and Sarah Jane might be immortal but... well, now I've thought up this plan I'm happier. :eyeroll: ANYway, I liked it. Simple story, funny bits, happy ending.
I still object strongly to not telling parents important things though. Usually if someone says not to tell your parents or your teachers or authority figures its because it's a very bad thing. Good things can be told. Everything should be told. It's important.
The bit with the nuclear power station made me :-( because I did a simulator of a nuclear power station when I was 8 or 9 or 10 and they don't work like that at all. But you can still make them work with clearly labelled buttons.
... also it made me :-( because in sister shows a runaway nuclear reactor leads to horrible dooms, and while part of why I like watching the CBBC version is the lack of horrible dooms, it does make it look a bit like they just never figured out the all important rainbow bit of the procedure. Happy endings that make the other heroic sacrifices look like death by stupid are a bit sad making, is what I'm saying. But I know I'm being daft.
I look forward to next week.
And then, Thor. *sigh* I know reading the fic first was not calculated to maximise my enjoyment, but Loki is so much more interesting than Thor. I kind of can't see the point of Thor. He was a big fighty shouty man at the start, and he was a big fighty shouty man at the end. When did he do any changing? Unless the change was realising he could die, which would make him a big stupid. Or maybe it was realising that his big fighting was leaving other people in danger, the bit where he went to evacuate people instead of charging in. That would be progress, but again, it would make him very very stupid to start with.
Loki is just sad. So good at lies he hears them under everyone. Big mess.
And they're both just trying to live up to their father.
Odin is the biggest failure. The bit where Thor said he was a good father? Oh hell no.
Fathers and sons again. Again! It's all bloomin fathers and sons.
I want to see a Wonder Woman film so it can be about mothers and daughters, trying to live up to the legacy of her mother the queen.
Wonder Woman isn't Superman in a skirt, because Superman is an immigrant from a ruined world, and he likes America better. He likes his new life and values and his real parents are the new American farmer parents. The basic message of Superman is a comforting one about how American values with superpowers would look just like this, and people would choose American values given the choice, and isn't America lovely? Whereas Diana is an Ambassador. She's been sent out here to tell us how we could do better and show us how we're doing it wrong. That's never going to be as popular, however much we need it. Just standing up saying this is man's world and women need to be helped is going to dent everyone's cosy bubble. The number of people who think we can stop doing feminism because we won already... the numbers just don't support that view. Even in the UK or USA. And there's a lot more world than that. So Wonder Woman comes out here to show us we could be better. And I like her for being a woman kicking arse and not needing men to define her anywhere. But she is neither cosy nor comforting.
A Wonder Woman film could be quite a lot like Thor, only you get the whole of Greek mythology to play with instead. Athena and Ares. Two different sides of war, the strategy thinking parts and the violent mayhem parts. Modern war wants to be all Athena, but the other side is everywhere too.
I fear a Wonder Woman reinvented for the current era would be sent to fight America's wars in the name of liberating women. Go kick foreigners around until they act civil. Instead of supporting local women, stomp in from outside.
Wonder Woman could go to America and fight... what specifically? Is always the problem. Easy to throw her at gorgons, not so simples to work her into this world.
But I like the mothers and daughters story. And then there's a third generation, or more, depending how many you import. And then it's like being big sister, or raising daughters. Mothers and daughters from both sides.
I looked at the deleted scenes on Thor and they seemed to get rid of his mother. Also Sif. Funny how that happens. *sigh*
The Sarah Jane Adventures has lots of women in now. I likes it.