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girlnamedxena) wrote2006-05-28 09:46 pm
girlnamedxena) wrote2006-05-28 09:46 pm
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five minute review time! (spoilers!)
Whole New Thing: ****1/2 (just because nothing is perfect)
Characters: wonderful
Plot: Ok
Dialogue: Fantastic
Kinda like: a soap opera where you actually care about the characters.
The Journey: *** (worth watching, if you're into that kind of thing)
Characters: OK
Plot: OK
Dialogue: hard to say, it was subtitled so sometimes I missed bits.
Kinda like: Brokeback Mountain with lesbians. But instead of someone dying they break up. Oops. I just ruined the ending. Bad me. Not that any of you are likely to see this anyway. But seriously, lesbians living in India? Of course it's not going to work out, so it's not like it's a huge spoiler. A huge spoiler would have been "And their families and community were really supportive and gave them money so they could fly to Canada, get married and adopt a child. The End."
That's probably one reason why I liked WNT more, it ended happy. Kind of. I mean, no one went skipping off into the sunset, but the teacher guy and his hot boyfriend seemed like they might possibly start liking each other again, Emmerson didn't get molested by some guy in a car (is forty dollars seriously the going rate for a child prostitute???)his parents managed to not break up and forgive each other and his dad stoped thinking about shit all the time. So it was happy. But not "and they lived happily ever after" happy. Which is refreshing, because stories are so often in one extreme or the other, while real life rarely is. It wasn't a happy ending, it was a 'We're all ok, I guess.' ending, which is pretty good as far as real life goes. If everyone who's important to you is doing ok, then life is pretty good.
I haven't been in the gay fiction scene for very long, but I'm already seriously tired of the 'whaaaa, we're in love but no one understands us.' crap. Yeah, it's true, that's an issue. But seriously, enough is enough, ok? No matter how out you are, you're still dealing with that all the freakin' time. I don't know about you, but for me fiction is an escape. If I'm sitting around going 'gee, I'm angsty' I may decide to read something so I can forget about being angsty for a while. Chances are I won't, I'll just sit there and brood, listen to Evanescence and write in my blog. But if I do read, I don't want to hear about how people are being discriminated against ect. ect. And it's not just gays, it's any group. I know racism and sexism and religious discrimination exist. Do I want to be reminded of that, over and over again in fiction? Not really. I mean, it's ok if it's present in the story, but if the whole plot is based around 'Narg, the world hates me and it's sad.' then I'm totally not interested in reading it.
Oh! And today this guy at the Heritage Park bakery gave me a cookie for free! It made me so happy all day. Small things can and do totally rock my world. Like when my cousin used the word "tubular" in a normal conversation.
Characters: wonderful
Plot: Ok
Dialogue: Fantastic
Kinda like: a soap opera where you actually care about the characters.
The Journey: *** (worth watching, if you're into that kind of thing)
Characters: OK
Plot: OK
Dialogue: hard to say, it was subtitled so sometimes I missed bits.
Kinda like: Brokeback Mountain with lesbians. But instead of someone dying they break up. Oops. I just ruined the ending. Bad me. Not that any of you are likely to see this anyway. But seriously, lesbians living in India? Of course it's not going to work out, so it's not like it's a huge spoiler. A huge spoiler would have been "And their families and community were really supportive and gave them money so they could fly to Canada, get married and adopt a child. The End."
That's probably one reason why I liked WNT more, it ended happy. Kind of. I mean, no one went skipping off into the sunset, but the teacher guy and his hot boyfriend seemed like they might possibly start liking each other again, Emmerson didn't get molested by some guy in a car (is forty dollars seriously the going rate for a child prostitute???)his parents managed to not break up and forgive each other and his dad stoped thinking about shit all the time. So it was happy. But not "and they lived happily ever after" happy. Which is refreshing, because stories are so often in one extreme or the other, while real life rarely is. It wasn't a happy ending, it was a 'We're all ok, I guess.' ending, which is pretty good as far as real life goes. If everyone who's important to you is doing ok, then life is pretty good.
I haven't been in the gay fiction scene for very long, but I'm already seriously tired of the 'whaaaa, we're in love but no one understands us.' crap. Yeah, it's true, that's an issue. But seriously, enough is enough, ok? No matter how out you are, you're still dealing with that all the freakin' time. I don't know about you, but for me fiction is an escape. If I'm sitting around going 'gee, I'm angsty' I may decide to read something so I can forget about being angsty for a while. Chances are I won't, I'll just sit there and brood, listen to Evanescence and write in my blog. But if I do read, I don't want to hear about how people are being discriminated against ect. ect. And it's not just gays, it's any group. I know racism and sexism and religious discrimination exist. Do I want to be reminded of that, over and over again in fiction? Not really. I mean, it's ok if it's present in the story, but if the whole plot is based around 'Narg, the world hates me and it's sad.' then I'm totally not interested in reading it.
Oh! And today this guy at the Heritage Park bakery gave me a cookie for free! It made me so happy all day. Small things can and do totally rock my world. Like when my cousin used the word "tubular" in a normal conversation.