my eyes have seen
Feb. 22nd, 2010 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wishfulclickingThanks to a marathon on Scifi, I've caught up with Caprica and overall I like it. The cylon dancing scene was hilarious and endearing: the AI-human interaction seems so real and now I wonder if there are any stories out there dealing with Robot-Zoe and the computer tech.
My favorite character is Sam Adama. Talk about rejecting stereotypes. Sam is an assassin (a very hot assassin) and very well versed in machismo; and he's a loving husband to his yuppie looking Larry. I do adore how all different kinds of relationships are the standard on this show--poly, homosexual, there is no narrative OMG WE ARE SO EDGY going on.
I've seen nothing of BSG so I can't comment on how well everything is tied together; but I like the futuristic noir vibe of the show even if the opening is unbearably cheesy for my tastes.
This weekend I watched Waitress with Felicity aka Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion and it was a good movie. It did make me hungry for pie and renewed my adoration for Matlock. It's not very often I see a pregnant woman treated as a sexual being in a movie, or as her own separate person from her eventual baby; but in this movie Keri's character was mostly ambivalent to somewhat hostile to the thought of having a child, and while most of those negative feelings were aimed at her horrible husband, I do like how the movie didn't shy away from how she felt about the pregnancy. In the end, I loved that she saved herself. It was kind of awesome.
The other movie I watched was Sins of the Mother with Jill Scott and Nicole Beharie (I think that's how it goes) and that was okay. Jill Scott isn't so much a great actress, she pretty much plays the same roles in different movies; and Nicole seemed stilted against the others but I don't know if that was more on her or them. The main thing I liked about the movie was that it was almost an Anti-Tyler Perry narrative, at least there was a surprise pregnancy and the career oriented woman wasn't pushed to forsake her prior goals, turn to Jesus, and marry the baby daddy just because that's how things are done. So I did appreciate that.
Anyone else seen those movies?
My favorite character is Sam Adama. Talk about rejecting stereotypes. Sam is an assassin (a very hot assassin) and very well versed in machismo; and he's a loving husband to his yuppie looking Larry. I do adore how all different kinds of relationships are the standard on this show--poly, homosexual, there is no narrative OMG WE ARE SO EDGY going on.
I've seen nothing of BSG so I can't comment on how well everything is tied together; but I like the futuristic noir vibe of the show even if the opening is unbearably cheesy for my tastes.
This weekend I watched Waitress with Felicity aka Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion and it was a good movie. It did make me hungry for pie and renewed my adoration for Matlock. It's not very often I see a pregnant woman treated as a sexual being in a movie, or as her own separate person from her eventual baby; but in this movie Keri's character was mostly ambivalent to somewhat hostile to the thought of having a child, and while most of those negative feelings were aimed at her horrible husband, I do like how the movie didn't shy away from how she felt about the pregnancy. In the end, I loved that she saved herself. It was kind of awesome.
The other movie I watched was Sins of the Mother with Jill Scott and Nicole Beharie (I think that's how it goes) and that was okay. Jill Scott isn't so much a great actress, she pretty much plays the same roles in different movies; and Nicole seemed stilted against the others but I don't know if that was more on her or them. The main thing I liked about the movie was that it was almost an Anti-Tyler Perry narrative, at least there was a surprise pregnancy and the career oriented woman wasn't pushed to forsake her prior goals, turn to Jesus, and marry the baby daddy just because that's how things are done. So I did appreciate that.
Anyone else seen those movies?
