Weekend Stuff

[shipperx]

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- Watched "This Is Forty" Eh. Just... eh. And not particularly funny.


- Watched that recent Oz movie (as in Wizard of...) and *snooze*


- The news remains too infuriating to watch.


- The news on Buffyforums (AND the discussion there) is just -- grr. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.


- Watched next to last episode of "The White Queen". Yep, still woobifying King Richard, making everything all of the women's fault, and now Princess Elizabeth is a pouty, contradictory teen who blames her mother for everything. Swell.


- Watched Once Upon A Time. Enjoyed it.

* Liked the intro of Tinkerbell.
* Am intrigued by what they're doing with Robin Hood (and his three-year-old, Roland, was adorbs. Poor Maid Marion seems to have bought the farm somewhere though. Guess he lost his "true love" too.)
* I don't believe for a moment that they'll end up killing Prince Charming.
* Liked Mulan needing to talk to someone she loved... and it be Sleeping Beauty. (Though I think that's intended to play ambiguously. Still, they clearly know there are Mulan/Sleeping Beauty slashers around. And Mulan/Sleeping Beauty's relationship with one another has been more important to the show than either of their relationship with Prince Phillip. So I liked the way that was handled.)
* Main plot made progress too. Smart thinking, Neal (though I'm not exactly comfortable with using an adorable three-year-old as shadow-bait.)

All in all, liked this episode.

- A neighbor was fostering a mother-rejected baby goat this weekend. It was absolutely adorable. SO CUTE! My little Zoe would walk up smelling it constantly, like her little brain was going -- it's hanging out with puppies, it looks kinda like a puppy... but it does NOT smell like a puppy. Mom, what IS this?

Heh. Cute little baby goat Gus.


- Alabama fumbled one hell of a lot in the first quarter against Kentucky. That sucked. Though pretty much as expected it was a romp of 47-7 (or something like that) so the fumbles don't really matter (though they still rather sucked).

Also watched part of the Ole Miss/Texas A&M game -- can they PLEASE change that targeting penalty now? Seriously, how many examples do they need that the way that the penalty is written SUCKS? Look if upon review there is no penalty, why in the hell does the team still get a 15 yard penalty? Does this make sense? No. It doesn't. Targeting should be a penalty, but when it's reviewed and THERE IS NO PENALTY they should stop rewarding the other team with 15 yards and a free first down. This has happened to Bama twice this year. It hasn't actually mattered because we went on to win the game in spite of the free first down and the spotted 15 yards, but the Ole Miss/Texas A&M game was won by a field goal in the last three seconds, so if I were Ole Miss, I'd be PISSED that A&M was spotted a free first down and fifteen yards IN SPITE of it having been ruled as there HAVING BEEN NO PENALTY!

Comments

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

Watched next to last episode of "The White Queen". Yep, still woobifying King Richard, making everything all of the women's fault, and now Princess Elizabeth is a pouty, contradictory teen who blames her mother for everything. Swell.

They're based on the Phillipa Gregory The Cousin's War series where everything that happened in that time period was caused by or influenced by the 3 women who were the protagonists of the books. Instead of making them helpless victims of the major events of their time period, the books empower them and give them a say in what happened. I don't think it's supposed to be viewed as blaming them.

I was intrigued and popped over to Buffyforums to see what was going on. You were not exaggerating.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I think Gregory THOUGHT of it as empowering, but it's not when you have women basically all being INSANE, thinking of ways to blame each other for events where they had limited power at best, and blaming women for daring to question men Richard. Meanwhile most of the men are being mislead by those scheming women. It's passive-aggressively misogynist. The only 'power' given to the women is the power to be wrong.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I had clearly missed something at the end of last season's OUAT, because I can't for the life of me remember how Prince Phillip came back from the dead. What episode was that in?

Yes, loved the Mulan/Aurora scene. So sad! (Of course Charming will survive. Somehow!)