Yea, I'm Still Here

Title says it all.

[carmelasoprano]

KAREN ALLEN as JENNY HAYDEN Starman (1984) dir. John Carpenter

[thegracefulether]

"It's not prestige drama."

It's not trying to be.

[skyiedior]

the 'male loneliness epidemic' and 'friendzoning' - two phrases that scream 'men's problems require urgent attention, while everyone else's struggles are just background noise.' Newsflash: rejection and loneliness are universal human experiences, not exclusive to men. but when men face them, suddenly it's a catastrophic injustice that can only be rectified by granting them unchecked access to women's time, energy, and bodies. the entitlement is real.

let's set the record straight: women aren't responsible for your emotional well-being. we are not obligated to provide you with companionship, sex, or validation. the notion that we're somehow failing you by not fulfilling these expectations is not only absurd but also dangerously entitled. and if you feel like working on yourself to attract the right woman is too much work you should probably try men, it's okay to be gay.

[thegracefulether]

The "epidemic" is actually just normal though, which is why I don't understand how it became such a talking point. Loneliness is the default state of every single man who ever existed. Most men who have ever existed have died lonely. Even a lot of the ones who actually had wives. That's just how it works.

I will say this though, women who believe they have zero responsibility for men's well being are privileged women. This has not been the case for most of human history and only recently have women been afforded the option to not give a shit. Why? Because men allowed it. If men wanted to lock up all women right now, they could do it and women's only chance of avoiding it would be to appeal to men to not do it. It's a tough truth to accept but it is what it is. If you don't care about men's well being, fair enough. But try not to throw it in their faces. Antagonizing the group of people who could take away your rights on a whim is not exactly intelligent. Progress does not happen without men's acceptance. Never forget that.

[thegracefulether]

I never thought I'd watch a show where the main character is clearly a stalker and yet the problem involving the isolated girl he's stalking can only really be solved by someone who stalks her. Who else is gonna be able to pick up the patterns in her life to solve the issue? Only someone who spends an inordinate amount of time watching her and tracing her steps in life. Just bizarre.

At first I thought he was the cause of the problem but now I don't think so. I think he's both a stalker AND she's cursed in some way. But I don't think one is related to the other. Obviously the show itself may not commit to the stalker angle but still. Stalking her while genuinely trying to solve her biggest problem is a wild plot.

[tardxsblues]

I like adventures as much as the next man -- if the next man is a man who likes adventures -- even so, don't-don't go native. What do you mean? I'm not. Look, there's a whole dimension in here, but there's only room for one me. Wait-wait a second, you just raved about ghosts like a kid who had too much sherbert.

[thegracefulether]

Its been over a year and I don't think my feelings about Hades 2 being Supergiant's next game has changed. I'm still immensely disappointed.

[thegracefulether]

Just found out Korea is making an adaptation of The Mentalist. If we don't get the KDrama edition of Patrick Jane making a paper frog for Lisbon, then what's the point?

[thegracefulether]

I despised Start Up, so the fact I'm watching Castaway Diva is weird. The writer really likes to write unlikeable male leads I guess. But the question is, does she actually know who the unlikeable one is in this show? Because she apparently didn't when writing Start Up. lol

[tardxsblues]

I have to die. No. You can change things. I can't. Even the tiniest change -- the ramifications could be catastrophic, could spread carnage and chaos across the universe like ripples on a pond.

[tardxsblues]

Look, I have a duty of care, okay? You know what that is? Of course I know what a duty of care is. What are you suggesting?

[tardxsblues]

[timelordgifs]

7.10 | 9.03

[thegracefulether]

Now that Dead Reckoning is coming out on home media and presumably streaming in less than a month, I'm just gonna say what I've wanted to say since it released.

I adore Ilsa. Always have. Her death was a worthy one. I'm tired of when every single time a character dies, people just say "they deserved better" as if that's some sort of legitimate criticism. It especially happens when a female character dies. Modern fandom doesn't know how to take a fictional death anymore and it's just annoying. She died trying to save someone and the world. A heroic death. Exactly how I expect any of these characters to die.

And I'm also tired of people acting like Grace was written to be a replacement. She clearly wasn't. They're entirely different characters.

Seriously, some of the complaints I've seen are completely bone headed.

[thegracefulether]

Love at First Sight is just more evidence that Haley Lu Richardson has incredibly soulful eyes.

[thegracefulether]

The editing in this Zoey 102 movie is terrible. Really makes it feel like there are entire parts of scenes missing.

[thegracefulether]

MI Dead Reckoning Part 1 is excellent, as expected. Too bad the fandom is gonna be a dumpster fire for a while because of THAT moment. Which I personally thought was done pretty well. But whatever.

[kajaono]

The point is: MI2 is so ooc when it comes to Ethan, women and sex

Ethan doesn’t has sex with random women. In mi1 Ethan is shy mess around his bosses wife. In mi3 he has sex ONCE with his wife, during their wedding night and it is cut really short. After that he has one kiss, in three movie (not counting the white widow kissing him without consent)

I DO understand why they went that road in mi2. After the shy mess Ethan was in MI1 they wanted to show him being more like James Bond, a man, all grown up, sure about his sexuality, lucky with the ladies

But that’s not Ethan. Ethan is a shy mess around women and that’s okay. It’s okay to have An action hero who is a shy mess around women.

And I am so lucky MCQ realized that and gave us him and Ilsa

[thegracefulether]

Though I understand this perspective, I also think there’s a lot underneath Ethan’s development that we tend to ignore. And MI2 probably wouldn’t make any sense if it was placed anywhere else in the canon. Mostly because, Ethan being the confident lone wolf alpha type is understandable when you consider he lost his entire team in the first movie. Now perhaps this wasn’t intended by the creative team behind MI2(though it could be), but the impact of his team dying around him manifests itself within him even now. It changed him forever. And I think there’s room for him to be the kind of man he is in MI2. It didn’t last forever because it shouldn’t, but think of it more like a phase in his life. We can respond to the events in our lives in many ways. Perhaps Ethan’s way of coping was to try become a James Bond type, to give himself more distance from people. He’s certainly more distant in MI2. I mean, the film opens with him by himself doing a dangerous stunt just because he can, not because he needs to. I don’t consider that to be a very Ethan thing either, but the idea that he can’t have a phase like this over the course of his life is incorrect I think.