one positive thing can be said about game of thrones
it had a proper “powerful female” role
cersei lannister portrayed brilliantly by lena headley
historically powerful women (without getting into the merit of amazons and some viking ladies) exercised their power by means of strategy
they plotted their way to the top and then executed their merciless plans from a comfortable sitting position upon a tower
nowadays every show that has a woman they have to be fucking martial arts experts or be brandishing swords around
roll my eyes at that shit
it’s like when companies release “for women” products by turning them pink
Haha, yes.
GOT has a lot going for it but I veered off when they just dropped an entire plot line like it never happened at the end of season 2 or 3.
Like, the previous episode ended with a cliffhanger, and the final episode just completely ignored it. Bullcrap.
Im thinking about other female heroes that make sense in shows. Not a whole lot.
Vikings has Lagertha who becomes a hero because of her sword-fighting, whereas early on in the show she is just the perfect honourable wife, a phase to which the show keeps flash backing because that first season of that show is as magical as storytelling gets.
The role of Ragnar Lothbrok is the bests role Ive seen anywhere ever, beating even Tony Soprano. I am that guy, I mean, all his feelings and thoughts and decisions are my own. I don’t know how else to say it. I don’t know how the hell they even made that show.
The Shield has some very good female parts. Not as pretty or royal as Cersei but given to solid, female plotting. But they’re not the heroes.
In general though Hollywood has always been bad to women.
American women are on the whole, to be fair, a bit confused.
Ironically, Married with Children pops in my mind first, looking for an American production that has good female parts.
I disliked that show a lot. But now I appreciate it.
Another good show, more civilized, was Mad About You, with Helen Hunt. But no plotting involved.
Friends had some great female scenes, though only in season 1 when the the writers were still mean. That first season is gold.
Good standard female fare is Marion Cotillard in Taxi 1 and 2. Back then she was like the ultimate woman. (check the last half second of this) In Hollywood she quickly turned to yet another specimen of what you describe, the sexless “impressive” “untouchable”, forgettable fly on the walls of the Arts. Though her class was not entirely wasted on Batman, I must say. Batman is pretty good. I have no idea which Batman, the one with Bane. There was also an ass-kicking kung fu chick there that wasn’t all bad considering the category - that director is one of the most serious ever to work on movies. Memento is among the most impressive debut films… still. These parts are okay but not memorable.
No trace of memorable female leads yet.
What about this. youtube.com/watch?v=4LtALpF5mF8
Pezer and I had something good going by the way, a very good, deep plot about a woman who is about to change…
very good.
Too good for the amateurs we were.
That last season fizzled though, damn.
I also thought it was pretty unfortunate to have the first black lead detective turn senile.
I dunno, seemed not great, since it also meant the plot turned out to not be coherent with itself.
Annoying.
Have any seen Justified? Thats more of an honest redneck drama. Very good acting and, come to mention it, a very good couple of female roles, Ava Crowder in particular. She shoots her husband and gets romantically involved with his brother Boyd Crowder as well as the United States Marshall Raylan Givens who is the lead and who is chasing Boyd even though they dug coal together.
“True Detective” first season only (which I think is the finest thing HBO ever put out)…True Detective without Woody Harrelson and Matthew Mcconaughey and the haunted swamps of Louisiana is like The Sopranos without James Gandolfini and the iconic New Jersey Turnpike with its surrounding Industrial sprawl …pointless…It’s beyond me that HBO would deviate from such a perfect template for a show
“The Outsider” Better than season 2 and 3 of True Detective as far as dark crime thrillers go… HBO really has thing for occult child sacrifice/rape/murder but i digress…And so does “Starz” with “The Missing”… The new HBO show “Perry Mason” deals with a child being murdered… Wonder what they are trying to tell us?
“Sleeper Cell” show about Islamic terror cell… surprisingly good soundtrack…
'The Boys"
“Cobra Kai” - some SJW stuff jammed in, but William Zabka puts on a great performance
It’s interesting that the same networks that put out all these finely, well crafted dramas are the same networks that push the most vile and viscous leftist propaganda.
Indeed man. That fact has intrigued me for a long time. And it is not entirely mysterious if we look at what exactly these great shows are pushing, world-view wise.
This is why Vikings is still my number one favourite show actually, because the world view it pushes is actually Pagan. It takes the existence of Gods entirely literally.
I thought it had fizzled after season 3 or 4 but season 6 is powerful, it introduces Rus. Like, Russians. Russians and Vikings. It doesn’t really get much better.
It is highly glamorous and sentimental at points but, we Vikings are suckers for good sentiment and craftsmanship.
Some of these shows you mention Ive watched, Ozark I noticed immediately when it came out and when season 3 came out I first re-watched 1 and 2. Very good. I really enjoy the hillbilly Jacob, too. Season 3 takes a very interesting turn for Darlene.
I think Ill check out some of these others you recommend.
I’ve probably only seen like 3 episodes of GoT… so cannot comment on the little I’ve seen, but the eps I watched had the tomboy in them… and I thought she was cool. I thought Buffy and Xena Warrior Princess worthy to watch… for their esoteric nature as well as their fight scenes, and also the Hercules, Highlander, and Angel series… amongst others.
Have you ever seen a female in head-to-toe pink, including all accessories and makeup? There’s something quite disturbing about it, to me.
The only things I buy in pink, are female sanitary stuff and makeup, and the very few pink items of clothing I do possess are more beigey pinks than pinky pinks. I was never dressed up all in pink, when a child, though I’ve seen pictures of me in church in frilly things.
Here’s that movie by the way which isn’t to be found anywhere, Trop de Bonheur.
I taped it in the 90s, then digitized that tape 10 years later. I had taped it on “long play”, meaning low quality, so the digitization didn’t go without asyncin some audio.
But its a perfect movie as far as Im concerned.
Ill probably end up removing it in a while.
Chernobyl was great. Even more fascinating since it is a real story.
It shows how people and certainly powerful people deal with problems of their own creation or that might affect their reputation. It certainly shows the way this plays out in the old Soviet system, but one can see this behavior with corporations, Western governments, and heck, in families.
It also shows how people do not deal with THE REAL (not in the Lacanian sense, but reality) because of their models of the world.
I kept thinking about 9/11, but even those who do not believe in anything classed as a conspiracy theory in the pejorative sense can the see pattern of denial when people deal with things they don’t think are possible.
Someone just-recently asked me if Chernobyl is now safe to visit. A funny coincidence, imo.
What a horrifying aftermath that disaster caused, and lives lost in the most awful of ways.
Experts believe the areas around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant will remain uninhabitable for at least 20,000 years. The figure 20,000 years apply to the area around the power plant itself. Areas around the exclusion zone are thought to be uninhabitable for least 3,000 years according to some experts.
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And they could have prevented a lot of deaths. A lot. But they didn’t want to lose face. And they couldn’t believe what the experts were telling them. Even experts refused to listen to experts. Some very brave people risked their lives in all sorts of different ways to save people.
And one thing I learned was that it neatly led to an unimaginably large explosion that would have affected the whole world. Luckily (and on the back of three extremely brave men) they were able to prevent this.
Midsomer Murders is a detective drama[1] set in modern-day England. The stories revolve around the efforts of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, and later his successor, cousin John Barnaby, to solve numerous murders that take place in the picturesque but deadly villages of the fictional county of Midsomer. The Barnabys have worked with several different sergeants throughout the run of the show: Detective Sergeant (DS) Gavin Troy (), DS Dan Scott (), DS Ben Jones (), DS Charlie Nelson () and DS Jamie Winter.[/b]
I’ve gone from watching American crime shows to British ones… I found that the former had become far too gruesome, and the latter, of more quaint and devious storylines rather than shock and horror.
Yeah I left it up there fore a few weeks but took it down again.
I keep having a bad feeling having it up on my account. Im sure there is a reason they have tried to erase it from existence, Im expecting they would delete my account or something for copyright violation.
