Once Upon A Time

So, last night's ep...

Giants aren't actually evil.  Sleeping Beauty has nightmares.  Pinocchio is morally ambiguous.  Capt. Hook is a flirt.   Henry's dad actually did (does?) love Emma.  And the Once-verse has the same Apollo candy bars as LOST's heaven/limbo.

Oh, and the actress playing Emma CANNOT pass for 18 years old in flashbacks.  And green screen special effects look quite green.

(ETA:  I wish they'd develop Aurora just a LITTLE because from "Once Upon a Time," you would never know how good this actress was at playing Queen (well, Princess) Mary on "The Tudors."  She was one of my faves there. 

But, then, Mary was a far more complex character.  Aurora seems to be quite the fragile flower.  Princess (Queen) Mary... was not. 

Similarly, I also wish Emma was played by an actress that I liked more.  I  came to dislike her character, Cameron, on House.  I flat-out loathed her character on "How I Met Your Mother" (loathed!) and as a result, I remain more cool on Emma than I would like to be.  Conversely, Snow gets unearned brownie points from me simply because I liked her character on "Big Love." 

Weird how lingering feelings of an actors' previous work factors into current impressions. )


Random Revenge predictions:

Emanda''s (Emily's) coo-coo for cocoa puff's mother is going to kill someone.  And Amily (Amanda) is going to be tragically killed (though probably not by "her" mother... though that would have some book-ending to it, so I don't discount it as a possibility.)

Election Stuff

Here's a bit of weirdness for you.

Yes, I have all sorts of anxiety over the national election, but here is an example of just how nuts my state's local politics are.

The state's constitution holds the world's record for being the longest constitution.  It's well over 100 pages long.  This is due to the absolute insanity of rather than things being done through the legislature, things are directly amended to the constitution.  Even county politics boils down to state votes to amend the constitution, so local measures in one part of the state are voted upon by the entire state... even when we have little to no knowledge what it's about.

More than that, virtually NOTHING is ever REMOVED from the constitution. Stuff from the Civil War is still in the constitution.

For that reason, Jim Crow laws are still part of the state contitution.  Yes, even after all these years.  School segregation, poll taxes, etc. are still on the books.  They're nullified by Supreme Court and by the federal Civil Rights Act, but they are still unamended in the constitution.

The measure to remove them was brought up for a vote in 2000 , but due to the A) incomprehensible nature of the wording of amendments when they come up for votes (seriously, if you read it the amendments make no sense whatsoever because they read like "Movement to repeat section X.XXXX.X of the state constitution on line X."   The amendment wording tells you nothing about the section or the lines ARE, so you don't know what is being amended nor have a clear idea of how they're being amended).  B) Certain *cough* groups scare tactic of saying that the incomprehensible amendment is going to change taxes on schools or open up lawsuits so 'vote no.'  All it takes are scare tactics and incomprehensibile language  and even if it would make sense to repeal something, nothing is ever repealed.

So here we are in 2012 and once again REMOVING EFFING JIM CROW LAWS is still on the ballot! 

Because the Jim Crow laws are still on the books.

How incredibly sad and disgusting as that?

As disgusting as the 'scare tactic' mailer about the move to 'repeal' my parents received this week?

Holy cow.  Can you believe how screwed up this is?  At this late day we still cannot manage to remove encoded racism from the state constitution. 

It's up for vote again tomorrow.  Fingers crossed (but given the incomprehensibility of the amendment on the sample ballot that I downloaded, I'm not hopeful.  If anyone is like me, if I do not understand what an amendment is saying (or it applies to a county where I do not live and thus have little knowledge of what the issue is about) I tend to skip the amendment and go on.  *sigh*

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