Aug 12, 2018
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Sasha is looking a little grumpy. Maybe he’s losing at cards?
“The only trouble is that the future comes so much sooner than it used to...” Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson have a May-September romance in the Columbia Pictures/Robert Aldrich drama Autumn Leaves, 1956.
honestly speaking, i think vld finally found it’s stride in s6. it was always trying to balance the aesthetic of high fantasy magic with high sci-fi tech, and also light-hearted comedy with deep, serious themes, and i’m not sure if they had it figured out up to s6.
s6 and s7 lean heavily into symbolism and tropes, but in such a way that their genre blend is wholly organic and the comedy/drama ratio is really enjoyable. i don’t think i had a moment this season where i thought they were leaning too heavily in one direction or another. as the series reached climax i expected more serious episodes and that’s what happened, but they managed to keep the lighthearted ones as well, and, even better, give them deeper meaning. like the whole thing with bob? MAN i was wondering how they were going to justify that but then they did and that ending was amazing.
and i mean, obviously this is my own take on everything, but i feel like they did a better job these last two seasons of tying in some of the bits they left hanging in seasons past, even as far back as s1/2.
i’m just really proud of how much work went into these last two seasons in particular, and how well they came together. ah.
She was serious with it: serious about improving herself as an actress, serious about her total dedication to screen stardom. Though she led a busy life off‐screen, the career was always central. She was consistently Joan Crawford, Star. And she played the role with fierce determination, holding back nothing. She made no appeals for audience sympathy; she was not one of those actresses who have to keep popping out from behind their characters signaling, “Look, it's sweet, lovable me, just pretending to be a tramp.” Whatever she did, she did wholeheartedly. Katharine Hepburn says that every great star has a talent to irritate. Joan Crawford had that. Whether you liked her or did not like her on the screen, you could not ignore her existence nor deny her quality. -Director George Cukor in his eulogy for Joan Crawford, May 22nd, 1977
I hate living on the west coast. I’m late for every award show wtf
Our Sym opened the match with “Join me for a 200IQ strat” and then we swept even though me and D.va didn’t make the tele the first time
When it started, The Venture Bros. was an unsubtle parody of Jonny Quest, centering on a super-scientist, a burly bodyguard, and a couple of rambunctious teens who love a good adventure but are also just a hair too naïve to really survive for long on their own. Calling it a Jonny Quest parody now is almost comically reductive, though, because the show spent its first six seasons expanding into one of the most complex and bizarre universes of any animated series—including its newer Adult Swim contemporaries like Rick And Morty. It’s a superhero parody, with deep Marvel cuts that have become a lot less deep thanks to the movies. It’s an outlet for obscure musical references, where David Bowie somehow became a regular character until creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer decided that was too limiting and just made him into a shapeshifter who pretended to be David Bowie. It’s a G.I. Joe parody, where the good guys and bad guys all need a silly gimmick and a codename. Mostly, though, it’s about a family that always sticks together, even in the face of constant, inescapable failure.
When it started, The Venture Bros. was an unsubtle parody of Jonny Quest, centering on a super-scientist, a burly bodyguard, and a couple of rambunctious teens who love a good adventure but are also just a hair too naïve to really survive for long on their own. Calling it a Jonny Quest parody now is almost comically reductive, though, because the show spent its first six seasons expanding into one of the most complex and bizarre universes of any animated series—including its newer Adult Swim contemporaries like Rick And Morty. It’s a superhero parody, with deep Marvel cuts that have become a lot less deep thanks to the movies. It’s an outlet for obscure musical references, where David Bowie somehow became a regular character until creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer decided that was too limiting and just made him into a shapeshifter who pretended to be David Bowie. It’s a G.I. Joe parody, where the good guys and bad guys all need a silly gimmick and a codename. Mostly, though, it’s about a family that always sticks together, even in the face of constant, inescapable failure.