I ain’t sorry…
Clexa AU: Lexa is left alone on the Ark but Clarke is not willing to let her girlfriend die in space without trying all that they can to get her to Earth.
I don’t come from a film background. I haven’t learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.
I can’t tell you what to do, Supergirl.
I have a lot of feelings and thoughts about the Cat/Kara dynamic from this scene, but most of all, can I just say that this speech right here, this show is everything to me right now? Because I love genre TV, so, so much, but MAN has it been bringing me down.
With all the grim dark and death on TV right now, here comes Supergirl telling me that the Max Lords and the Nons of the world are wrong. That given a choice between letting some die or risking the human race, between extinction of all the kryptonians left in the universe or saving the planet, there’s always another option to work together, to hold each other up and inspire each other to be better.
That hope and faith are stronger than fear and violence, and life is more of a compelling story than death.
And I just really, really needed to hear that this week.
You know what this reminded me of? Star Trek The Next Generation. This was Picard and Riker in the ready room saying ‘there is always a choice’ and that our humanity is defined not by our physical form, or our intelligence, or our technology or our wealth, but by our choices.
And before anyone jumps on me for daring to compare Supergirl to Star Trek in terms of quality go back and watch the first two seasons of TNG and get back to me okay? Supergirl is rough, and its clumsy sometimes. It’s definitely not TNG season 6 or 7 - no argument there. There are things it needs to do better. But there’s a glimmer of something that this scene gets at that is what I miss so damn much in sci-fi-fantasy TV right now, and that’s the idea that at the end of the day, we can be better than what we are because we choose to be.
I’m tired of the current media culture that conflates suffering (often heaped upon people - like queer women and PoC - who already experience violence disproportionately in real life) and violence and with “complexity” and tells me the only good stories are ones of enduring loss and pain. I’m tired - as a woman - of being told I only matter as a sex object, or to support a man’s experience.
I would never suggest this show is for everyone and maybe its only novel because of the current context but what a refreshing idea to have a major US broadcast network air a show where an older woman tells the younger lady hero “you can succeed by being true to who you are.”
You can call it escapist trash and I would totally agree with you but I guess I really don’t care. My blog is a landfill anyway.
Found this new Special Anniversary Edition of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak at Barnes & Noble today and couldn’t resist! I haven’t read this book yet, but I’ve have heard it’s amazing.
a gay person: maybe this character is gay like me
everyone else immediately: but what if no characters were like you though wouldnt that just be better
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You’re so lonely. So afraid to leave. At night, desperate to sleep… you imagine an ocean. I see it… I see the island. And Han Solo.
video game meme » [1/5] female characters: Ellie Williams (The Last of Us)
“After all we’ve been though. Everything that I’ve done. It can’t be for nothing. Look, I know you mean well…but there’s no halfway with this. Once we’re done, we’ll go wherever you want. Okay?”
Was suppose to be Wanheda drawing counterpart for this Heda piece…but after 307 happened and people starting to made up this “Elyza Lex” character I couldn’t help wanting to at least make one art for this awesome concept ~ (And badass girl with guns is my weakness!)
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