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flowrs4ophelia1. Every day for thirty days you post about an awesome female character. Pictures! Recs! Squee! What's not to love?
Day 1:
PEPPER POTTS
Iron Man
Whoever first said "Behind every great man is a great woman" was obviously talking about Tony Stark's long-suffering assistant. It's so refreshing to see a character like Pepper in a big action franchise who can be strong without the ability to physically kick somebody's ass and isn't just there as eye candy in skin-tight leather either. She's not just the best secretary in the universe but able to run an entire company while Tony's too busy with the funner parts of being a super hero. I love that she knows him too well/is generally too awesome to be mindlessly impressed by the whole Iron Man thing and throwing herself at him before the time that it's actually a right decision, and until then her character is not angstily consumed or defined by that tension being there. In fact, despite her claim that she doesn't have anyone else in her life either, you almost get the idea that he needs her more than she needs him. She could just get too fed up with him and run off with Happy the driver someday, after all. (Oh wait, that's in canon...)
2. I watch so few shows besides stuff that I download that it always feels a little weird when I actually take time to turn on the TV and just...see what's on...and watch it. Today I was just going through the guide to see when Sherlock is supposed to air on PBS (yeah, I'm going to watch some of it again just because it's on TV here even though I've seen it a million times, LOL) and ended up watching an episode of the Granada series on there, which I didn't know they showed. (It was "The Blue Carbuncle," which left me all in the mood for Christmas time and then I thought, Oh right...It's still October. LOL.)
Anyway, I saw their preview for Sherlock while I was watching it and noticed that they used Hans Zimmer's theme from the Ritchie movie in it. That's kind of funny. The scores do coincidentally sound very similar at times.
3. I really can't believe it myself, but I've only recently begun catching up on Doctor Who when I hadn't watched any since "Journey's End." There's surely nothing new to be said by now about the specials and I'm sure almost everyone found something to hate about them, but I loved them. "The End of Time" didn't really stand up to some of my favorite episodes ever as much as I was expecting, but I still thought it was very good. Especially when Timothy Dalton's face suddenly filled the screen and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ninety6tears and I couldn't help but crack up laughing in surprise. (And OMG, I was never really into the Doctor/Master slashiness before but all their interaction killed me this time around. Hehe.)
I've also finally been watching Torchwood for the first time. My reasons for loving it can basically be summed up in this picture. LMAO.
I have a friend who for a while kept enthusiastically trying to force Children of Earth on me whenever I was hanging out at his house, and I had to keep telling him no matter how much better it is I just can't watch the third season of something before the rest. Ironically the reason I was insistent about not being spoiled is because I'd already heard about who dies in it, just like anyone who spends any time on LJ probably heard enough about it to be able to figure it out (people always think they're being so vague about spoilers *eyeroll*). But the only thing worse than hearing about a character dying before you get to that point is getting to that point before you've even had a chance to start caring about the character and it can have the proper effect on you.
So yeah, I do see now why people don't exactly excitedly recommend the first two seasons. I'm really not the kind of person who watches something with a critical eye spotting all the plot holes and inconsistencies, generally because that's just one thing I'm kind of slow about, lol. But there were several moments especially in season 1 that I actually was scratching my head and going Wait... because something didn't seem to totally make sense. If it doesn't get past me, then the logic must be pretty bad. Haha. But even though the Torchwood Declassified documentaries are half full of RTD congratulating himself on how ~dark~ this episode is just like last week and next week, I find the real appeal is that even in the darkest and creepiest episodes like "They Keep Killing Suzie" the show maintains sort of a tongue-in-cheek and morbidly humorous feel. I mean, the episodes do have titles like "They Keep Killing Suzie" and "Countrycide." LOL. I guess when it's not the more intelligent show it becomes by Series 3, it makes up for it for me that it at least has a sense of fun about it. And I think I'd actually be a little disappointed if the show never regained some of its stupidity following Children of Earth, so hopefully the next season will have a mix of seriousness and ridiculousness to keep everyone happy.
Day 1:
PEPPER POTTS
Iron Man
Whoever first said "Behind every great man is a great woman" was obviously talking about Tony Stark's long-suffering assistant. It's so refreshing to see a character like Pepper in a big action franchise who can be strong without the ability to physically kick somebody's ass and isn't just there as eye candy in skin-tight leather either. She's not just the best secretary in the universe but able to run an entire company while Tony's too busy with the funner parts of being a super hero. I love that she knows him too well/is generally too awesome to be mindlessly impressed by the whole Iron Man thing and throwing herself at him before the time that it's actually a right decision, and until then her character is not angstily consumed or defined by that tension being there. In fact, despite her claim that she doesn't have anyone else in her life either, you almost get the idea that he needs her more than she needs him. She could just get too fed up with him and run off with Happy the driver someday, after all. (Oh wait, that's in canon...)
2. I watch so few shows besides stuff that I download that it always feels a little weird when I actually take time to turn on the TV and just...see what's on...and watch it. Today I was just going through the guide to see when Sherlock is supposed to air on PBS (yeah, I'm going to watch some of it again just because it's on TV here even though I've seen it a million times, LOL) and ended up watching an episode of the Granada series on there, which I didn't know they showed. (It was "The Blue Carbuncle," which left me all in the mood for Christmas time and then I thought, Oh right...It's still October. LOL.)
Anyway, I saw their preview for Sherlock while I was watching it and noticed that they used Hans Zimmer's theme from the Ritchie movie in it. That's kind of funny. The scores do coincidentally sound very similar at times.
3. I really can't believe it myself, but I've only recently begun catching up on Doctor Who when I hadn't watched any since "Journey's End." There's surely nothing new to be said by now about the specials and I'm sure almost everyone found something to hate about them, but I loved them. "The End of Time" didn't really stand up to some of my favorite episodes ever as much as I was expecting, but I still thought it was very good. Especially when Timothy Dalton's face suddenly filled the screen and
ninety6tears and I couldn't help but crack up laughing in surprise. (And OMG, I was never really into the Doctor/Master slashiness before but all their interaction killed me this time around. Hehe.)I've also finally been watching Torchwood for the first time. My reasons for loving it can basically be summed up in this picture. LMAO.
I have a friend who for a while kept enthusiastically trying to force Children of Earth on me whenever I was hanging out at his house, and I had to keep telling him no matter how much better it is I just can't watch the third season of something before the rest. Ironically the reason I was insistent about not being spoiled is because I'd already heard about who dies in it, just like anyone who spends any time on LJ probably heard enough about it to be able to figure it out (people always think they're being so vague about spoilers *eyeroll*). But the only thing worse than hearing about a character dying before you get to that point is getting to that point before you've even had a chance to start caring about the character and it can have the proper effect on you.
So yeah, I do see now why people don't exactly excitedly recommend the first two seasons. I'm really not the kind of person who watches something with a critical eye spotting all the plot holes and inconsistencies, generally because that's just one thing I'm kind of slow about, lol. But there were several moments especially in season 1 that I actually was scratching my head and going Wait... because something didn't seem to totally make sense. If it doesn't get past me, then the logic must be pretty bad. Haha. But even though the Torchwood Declassified documentaries are half full of RTD congratulating himself on how ~dark~ this episode is just like last week and next week, I find the real appeal is that even in the darkest and creepiest episodes like "They Keep Killing Suzie" the show maintains sort of a tongue-in-cheek and morbidly humorous feel. I mean, the episodes do have titles like "They Keep Killing Suzie" and "Countrycide." LOL. I guess when it's not the more intelligent show it becomes by Series 3, it makes up for it for me that it at least has a sense of fun about it. And I think I'd actually be a little disappointed if the show never regained some of its stupidity following Children of Earth, so hopefully the next season will have a mix of seriousness and ridiculousness to keep everyone happy.
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Date: 2010-10-25 10:49 am (UTC)I love Pepper!
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Date: 2010-10-25 11:17 am (UTC)(which was also why I couldn't see why everyone was so upset over Uhura not kicking any butt in the new Star Trek film. Personally, I feel that speaking a gazzilion alien languages and deciphering coded communiques is just as awesome as Kirk kicking Romulan butt)
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Date: 2010-10-25 11:10 pm (UTC)I don't get why people get so preoccupied with those kind of details of what makes good female characters. Action heroines who can kill a whole room full of guys in five seconds can still be really one-dimensional and objectified, so what's the big deal?
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Date: 2010-10-26 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-25 12:41 pm (UTC)lol Torchwood. The wank after COE was epic. As someone who disliked pretty much everythign about s1 and s2, I enjoyed COE and was a bit baffled that the primary complaint seemed to be "how dare they make our show good!", but I guess I can agree that it DID feel like another show entirely because... well.
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Date: 2010-10-25 11:21 pm (UTC)I enjoyed COE and was a bit baffled that the primary complaint seemed to be "how dare they make our show good!", but I guess I can agree that it DID feel like another show entirely because... well.
LOL, exactly. I think a lot of people are just forgetting that was really just one serialized story, and instead of dismissing it as one really long episode they didn't particularly like they're all "OMG THE SHOW IS RUINED FOREVER." Of course a show shouldn't be that intense all the time, but in general saying "Screw this, I don't watch TV to be depressed!" in response to TW is kind of like watching a medical show and expecting there to never be any depressing episodes with patients dying. :/
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Date: 2010-10-25 11:25 pm (UTC)Yeah. I think TORCHWOOD: THE NEW WORLD or whatever will be dark as well, but it too is going to be one overarching story. I dunno. I feel like COE is sort of what Torchwood was always "meant" to be, but what it never was under Chris Chibnall. People always blame RTD, and maybe he made some executive decisions, but he wasn't writing the episodes, he was too busy heading Doctor Who.