Random things (ATA Girl, Leverage, SG-1)

1. I finally got around to listening to the second series of Big Finish's ATA Girl. It was all right? But I'm a little bit over the constant framing of Women's Stories as All About Rape and Sexual Assault (seriously, can I please please please have some media about women that isn't centered on Women as Abuse Victims In a System That hates them, and the Family/Society that Keep Them Down. Please). In addition, the series had far too many male characters. Men already have a massive glut of stories about their time during WW2. Can we fucking stop talking about them. Please.

I'm also very over people talking enthusiastically about how they were able to show vulnerability in x female character, which is totally new and different and AWESOME. The interviews with ATA Girl, had every.single.woman state that as though it's a fucking selling point. NO IT ISN'T. Women are CONSTANTLY VULNERABLE in media, ffs.

2. Aside from that, my mother and I are re-watching Leverage together, and I had some thoughts (I know, a decade late) about Sophie and her acting and, just, character arc stuff from season one. ( Read more... )

3. Netflix is streaming Stargate: SG-1 again, so I've been randomly re-watching stuff. I hit up some s5 and 4, then went back to 3, and then to 1, and now I'm near the end of 2. I have skipped any episode I don't have interest in (which is... a lot). And Daniel's floppy hair is distracting (as are Janet's hair changes!) I've been enjoying it, though. And I'd forgotten how FROWNY FACE Teal'c is for most of season 1, and some of 2. I wonder if they asked him to soften for the later seasons, or if he just softened on his own.

(this got longer than I'd thought)
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