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jebbypalIt's been a while. Before I bitch about tv, short update.
AKA, I don't see why the " " rule changes from the cut text tag to the user name tag. Oh well.
Anyway, trip to scotland got cancelled by the client (supposedly someone finally found out they had someone internal that planned to do what they were paying us to do). I was sad, but then again, as we've gotten a new rush project that involved 2 new therapy areas, well, it might be for the best. But this is the same client that was paying for the London trip and so that is now up in the air too. *boo hiss*
Sleep patterns seem to have finally evened out and I'm back down to a normal amount of caffeine (at least till I'm onsite again at the end of the month). My stay in Chicago has been extended though, such that I now have almost a day and a half to just kick around if I don't see anything at the conference that looks interesting. Hopefully weather will be nice.
Not too much else going on - despite the nice weather that we had last week (and has since abandoned us for an entire week of thunderstorms), my mood has been shot to hell and I've been procrastinating horribly. Including ereader binges mostly because nothing fanficcy has caught my eye and after I caught up on tv there wasn't anything there to keep my interest. Suppose I should take advantage of it and start writing again. That or seriously contemplating what I want to do for a vacation! Or you know, get a hobby and some new RL friends in the area...
And in the future there will be a B-only post, but I don't feel like even approaching that right now.
Wow, I saw PT complain about this one on twitter, but yeah, wow. I'm at the point of being glad the show was cancelled because my fluffy tv show had gotten to the point that I was fast forwarding through the Savannah family crap, and the new half-sister crap (omg, the half-sister was like soooo annoying just on voice alone). But then the parts I didn't fast-forward through due to eye candy, *cough Julian and Red*, I just didn't believe. While yes, Marti and Julian did have chemistry, I didn't really think they'd built up enough of a platform to make the relationship believable. Though I did believe his quote of "when people look at us on the street, they have to think I'm having a mid-life crisis". Personally, if the character was having that sort of misgiving, methinks they'd show either him being a little more reticent about going public with the relationship (as I'd expected but which never made it on screen), or something. But no, we dealt with it in one afternoon.
And I'm sorry, if a big name university wanted to investigate its departments but still leave football in place, I don't see them hiring the exwife of the football coach even if the divorce was amicable. Just no.
So yeah, most boring season/series finale ever.
Whooooooo boy. It's been a while since an episode with decent writing and acting has made me this mad. In fact, I had to go and check who had written the ep and it was Shonda.
On the one hand, granted, the ep does reflect society's general patriarchy. But on the other, all said patriarchy pissed me off and resulted in several OOC moments.
First, Owen/Christina. (fair warning, there are gaps in the past 2 seasons that I didn't watch). After all the set up of Owen and Christina supporting each other and seeming to respect each other's agency, I couldn't completely buy that Owen was so completely deaf to everything that Christina was saying. For all of his continual "just listen to me", he was refusing to do the opposite. Of course, it could be very true to life, but well...of course, at least they'd foreshadowed this conflict some. Still, the way the ep went, they've pretty much written themselves into a hole for the relationship that I don't know if any of us will believe if they try to revive it. :(
Mere/Derek - actually, this was the only relationship fight of the night that I believed and didn't make me want to bang the characters/writer over the head. Derek's right to feel like Mere stepped over a lot of lines etc and going off to cool down instead of continuing to fight and make it worse was probably the right decisions. Mere was right in that things are "complicated". Although Derek sees it as being outside of the realm of being a good mother, I'd say the response is very mother-oriented, but also, a line that is much more likely to be understood by women, especially women in high powered careers. For a girl or a woman "it's complicated" is something that is always drilled into us as we learn to navigate the waters of community opinions on everything from our wardrobe, our sex life, and our relationship with other women. We support each other, we turn on each other, and the rules are always changing both within our group of friends and within our lives as we progress froom hs to college to careers.
Bailey/hot nurse guy (why can't I ever remember his name). Of all the different things that went on with the pairings, I think this was the one that pissed me off the most. Granted yes, it was sweet how he silently gave her someone to lean on within the work place as everything was going on. Still, I feel like they've cut Bailey off from the other people on the show quite a bit. But a lot was going on so fine, I'll take it. But the last scene? Of him inviting himself over to her place and giving her no room to back out when she said she wasn't ready for her son to know about them? Sure, he wiggled and said they didn't have to explain anything, but the ultimatum really pissed me off and I was disappointed in Bailey going with it. I get really tired of seeing the powerplay dynamics that his character seems to constantly pull in order to establish his manhood etc. And I wish Bailey would get tired of it too. As disappointed as I was for her to have the class problem when the relationship first started, it is valid and I know people that have it. But after a while, seriously, let's show them as equals etc just to put out in the world one fucking couple where money/power/prestige isn't an issue. Then again, maybe I'm naive to believe that we should get to see that just because I expect it in my own life.
Teddy/Andrew/Henry
I think I threw up a little in my mouth when Teddy had the revelation that maybe she was in love with Henry because she went to his room to chill when she needed to unwind after Andrew confessed that's what she was for him and that that was the definition of "twue love". I'm all for showing your husband as your best friend etc, but the whole "she married him so now she has to fall in love with him" thing just uggh. I'd have much preferred it if she went to Germany, realized she missed Henry too much, and then came back and had to convince him that he was what she wanted now. That would have been believable and not adding insult to injury on the whole "Nice Guy" trope. Just gah.
Lexie/Sloan/completely unobjectionable guy
WTF??? Seriously Lexie, why didn't you slap your boyfriend when he told you about Sloan "giving you to him" and it being "creepy, but maybe he needs to get Sloan a goat now". Because the actor didn't deliver the lines quite strong enough for me to buy that he didn't like it and didn't show enough offense when Sloan did it. And then why didn't you slap Sloan for it later, instead of being all "I still love you, but if you stick around, I will come back to you"? Seriously, dump both the losers, learn to be happy with yourself and then find someone that truly respects you instead of wanting to protect/father you? Just UUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHH.
Seriously Shonda, let's get a little bit more active feminism in her instead of constantly reinforcing patriarchal story lines. I'm practically looking forward to Supernatural to wash this bad taste out of my mouth because if I'm lucky it will be another actress-free night on the show and my feminist hackles won't come out. Of course, that's probably untrue.
Seriously, WTF? I'm sick of every single show positing that the only way any of their characters can be happy is to have a freaking kid. The only way that isn't true is if said character is freaking nympho (Russel, Rules of Engagement) or asexual (Lenord, BBT, though I suppose eventually he will want to pass on his genes for the betterment of the world). Which is why Christina is so awesome - she acknowledges if she had a kid she'd love it. She doesn't hate kids. She isn't wanting to sow her wild oats. She just doesn't want a kid!! Granted, the conflict comes from Owen and her not properly discussing it before tying their lives together, but it's so wonderful to see a character, who isn't an ice princess, express that opinion. (though, since they originally started Christina as an ice princess, well...)
But no, now we have Bones wanting a kid. And on Flashpoint, we have the idea of all the babies the men are having making the woman ask how to balance work and home if she has a kid. And Mere wants kids so badly that she almost makes herself blind over it. And on and on and on. Gaaah. It's bad enough they have to constantly show us women can't be complete and happy without finding a guy. But this past year the baby thing just seems to have exploded. Or maybe I'm just getting more annoyed by it since my own biological clock seems to have stayed stuck in my mother rather than ever actually inhabiting me. *rolls eyes*
AKA, I don't see why the " " rule changes from the cut text tag to the user name tag. Oh well.
Anyway, trip to scotland got cancelled by the client (supposedly someone finally found out they had someone internal that planned to do what they were paying us to do). I was sad, but then again, as we've gotten a new rush project that involved 2 new therapy areas, well, it might be for the best. But this is the same client that was paying for the London trip and so that is now up in the air too. *boo hiss*
Sleep patterns seem to have finally evened out and I'm back down to a normal amount of caffeine (at least till I'm onsite again at the end of the month). My stay in Chicago has been extended though, such that I now have almost a day and a half to just kick around if I don't see anything at the conference that looks interesting. Hopefully weather will be nice.
Not too much else going on - despite the nice weather that we had last week (and has since abandoned us for an entire week of thunderstorms), my mood has been shot to hell and I've been procrastinating horribly. Including ereader binges mostly because nothing fanficcy has caught my eye and after I caught up on tv there wasn't anything there to keep my interest. Suppose I should take advantage of it and start writing again. That or seriously contemplating what I want to do for a vacation! Or you know, get a hobby and some new RL friends in the area...
And in the future there will be a B-only post, but I don't feel like even approaching that right now.
Wow, I saw PT complain about this one on twitter, but yeah, wow. I'm at the point of being glad the show was cancelled because my fluffy tv show had gotten to the point that I was fast forwarding through the Savannah family crap, and the new half-sister crap (omg, the half-sister was like soooo annoying just on voice alone). But then the parts I didn't fast-forward through due to eye candy, *cough Julian and Red*, I just didn't believe. While yes, Marti and Julian did have chemistry, I didn't really think they'd built up enough of a platform to make the relationship believable. Though I did believe his quote of "when people look at us on the street, they have to think I'm having a mid-life crisis". Personally, if the character was having that sort of misgiving, methinks they'd show either him being a little more reticent about going public with the relationship (as I'd expected but which never made it on screen), or something. But no, we dealt with it in one afternoon.
And I'm sorry, if a big name university wanted to investigate its departments but still leave football in place, I don't see them hiring the exwife of the football coach even if the divorce was amicable. Just no.
So yeah, most boring season/series finale ever.
Whooooooo boy. It's been a while since an episode with decent writing and acting has made me this mad. In fact, I had to go and check who had written the ep and it was Shonda.
On the one hand, granted, the ep does reflect society's general patriarchy. But on the other, all said patriarchy pissed me off and resulted in several OOC moments.
First, Owen/Christina. (fair warning, there are gaps in the past 2 seasons that I didn't watch). After all the set up of Owen and Christina supporting each other and seeming to respect each other's agency, I couldn't completely buy that Owen was so completely deaf to everything that Christina was saying. For all of his continual "just listen to me", he was refusing to do the opposite. Of course, it could be very true to life, but well...of course, at least they'd foreshadowed this conflict some. Still, the way the ep went, they've pretty much written themselves into a hole for the relationship that I don't know if any of us will believe if they try to revive it. :(
Mere/Derek - actually, this was the only relationship fight of the night that I believed and didn't make me want to bang the characters/writer over the head. Derek's right to feel like Mere stepped over a lot of lines etc and going off to cool down instead of continuing to fight and make it worse was probably the right decisions. Mere was right in that things are "complicated". Although Derek sees it as being outside of the realm of being a good mother, I'd say the response is very mother-oriented, but also, a line that is much more likely to be understood by women, especially women in high powered careers. For a girl or a woman "it's complicated" is something that is always drilled into us as we learn to navigate the waters of community opinions on everything from our wardrobe, our sex life, and our relationship with other women. We support each other, we turn on each other, and the rules are always changing both within our group of friends and within our lives as we progress froom hs to college to careers.
Bailey/hot nurse guy (why can't I ever remember his name). Of all the different things that went on with the pairings, I think this was the one that pissed me off the most. Granted yes, it was sweet how he silently gave her someone to lean on within the work place as everything was going on. Still, I feel like they've cut Bailey off from the other people on the show quite a bit. But a lot was going on so fine, I'll take it. But the last scene? Of him inviting himself over to her place and giving her no room to back out when she said she wasn't ready for her son to know about them? Sure, he wiggled and said they didn't have to explain anything, but the ultimatum really pissed me off and I was disappointed in Bailey going with it. I get really tired of seeing the powerplay dynamics that his character seems to constantly pull in order to establish his manhood etc. And I wish Bailey would get tired of it too. As disappointed as I was for her to have the class problem when the relationship first started, it is valid and I know people that have it. But after a while, seriously, let's show them as equals etc just to put out in the world one fucking couple where money/power/prestige isn't an issue. Then again, maybe I'm naive to believe that we should get to see that just because I expect it in my own life.
Teddy/Andrew/Henry
I think I threw up a little in my mouth when Teddy had the revelation that maybe she was in love with Henry because she went to his room to chill when she needed to unwind after Andrew confessed that's what she was for him and that that was the definition of "twue love".
Lexie/Sloan/completely unobjectionable guy
WTF??? Seriously Lexie, why didn't you slap your boyfriend when he told you about Sloan "giving you to him" and it being "creepy, but maybe he needs to get Sloan a goat now". Because the actor didn't deliver the lines quite strong enough for me to buy that he didn't like it and didn't show enough offense when Sloan did it. And then why didn't you slap Sloan for it later, instead of being all "I still love you, but if you stick around, I will come back to you"? Seriously, dump both the losers, learn to be happy with yourself and then find someone that truly respects you instead of wanting to protect/father you? Just UUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHH.
Seriously Shonda, let's get a little bit more active feminism in her instead of constantly reinforcing patriarchal story lines. I'm practically looking forward to Supernatural to wash this bad taste out of my mouth because if I'm lucky it will be another actress-free night on the show and my feminist hackles won't come out. Of course, that's probably untrue.
Seriously, WTF? I'm sick of every single show positing that the only way any of their characters can be happy is to have a freaking kid. The only way that isn't true is if said character is freaking nympho (Russel, Rules of Engagement) or asexual (Lenord, BBT, though I suppose eventually he will want to pass on his genes for the betterment of the world). Which is why Christina is so awesome - she acknowledges if she had a kid she'd love it. She doesn't hate kids. She isn't wanting to sow her wild oats. She just doesn't want a kid!! Granted, the conflict comes from Owen and her not properly discussing it before tying their lives together, but it's so wonderful to see a character, who isn't an ice princess, express that opinion. (though, since they originally started Christina as an ice princess, well...)
But no, now we have Bones wanting a kid. And on Flashpoint, we have the idea of all the babies the men are having making the woman ask how to balance work and home if she has a kid. And Mere wants kids so badly that she almost makes herself blind over it. And on and on and on. Gaaah. It's bad enough they have to constantly show us women can't be complete and happy without finding a guy. But this past year the baby thing just seems to have exploded. Or maybe I'm just getting more annoyed by it since my own biological clock seems to have stayed stuck in my mother rather than ever actually inhabiting me. *rolls eyes*