Betty Plotnick (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bettyp) wrote,@ 2006-01-10 13:24:00 |
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time's fun when you're having rum
So it's back to school, and I feel like I'm cheating this semester, because I'm taking a creative writing workshop (that's not *school!* all they want me to do is *write!*) and two 20th century poetry classes, one on modern Irish poetry that is almost entirely Yeats and Heaney, and one on modern British poetry that is...Yeats, Heaney, and some other people. I even have to buy the same *books* for both classes, and I'm already plotting ways to write the same term paper for both. *g*
Me and Yeats are gonna be likethis for a few weeks, here.
I have cannily noticed there are no female poets on either syllabus, and since my fourth class is Shakespeare, that means that for the first time possibly in my entire college career, *I* am the only woman writer I need to know anything about this semester. *g* I was quite startled that the British poetry class didn't have any women, but then as I ticked off Significant Modern Female Poets in my head, I couldn't think of any that weren't American, either. Of course, you've already got your Audens and your Eliots confusing the American/British issue, so you could bring in Gertrude Stein or H.D. on the same passport, I guess. But anyway.
Speaking of lesbian writers, hey, The L Word is back on! I'm way hyped about this season; 2nd was a huge leap better than 1st, and if "Labia Majora" is any indication, it's just going to keep making me happier and happier.
Bette and Tina crack me up. They're constantly entertaining: two women with NOTHING in common, who practically can't bear to live together and yet are even more miserable apart -- it could be horribly twisted, but instead the show writes them as just twisted enough to be fun to watch. Also, goddamn but Laurel is looking good this season. Yeow. I mean, she's always been lovely, but sometimes when you're standing next to Jennifer Beals, you get a little overlooked. New Year's Resolution: don't do that anymore! Because yeow.
Okay, I wasn't too pleased about this whole Alice/Dana breakup/breakdown thing, especially because Chef Woman is so unbearably boring that it really kind of makes you wonder, Dana, wtf? But Leisha does such great comedy, I'm kind of enjoying her grand wig-out -- as long as it doesn't go on for *too* long, 'kay? Also, I have never, ever in my life considered the pairing, but all of a sudden I'm kind of an Alice/Helena shipper. Because what's not funny about that? And I *like* Helena as a character -- althought I didn't at first, because I thought they were just writing her as a wealthy piranha bitch -- but as last season went on, I got kind of intrigued by this idea that as a lover, a mom, and a friend, she's this totally socially distorted person who has *no idea* how to create and maintain relationships, much as she really wants them. I sort of love the idea of her being steamrolled over by Alice, who has no filters and no sense of social obligation whatsoever, but is very genuine in the way that Helena has no idea how to be. And when Helena falls, she *lavishes* her women with attention and adoration, which Alice very clearly needs desperately. They'd be a very odd couple, but this is tv; we don't want them to be *too* compatible, or there's nothing to watch. So, plan of attack for Alice: 1) get your meds straightened out, stat, and b) let Helena spoil you to death. Alice would also be a totally awesome Batty Stepmother (though hopefully they get a solid, no-nonsense nanny to balance out the freak factor in that household a bit).
You know, I'm probably not supposed to say this, but I've done a bit of a slow reversal on Jenny; I really think I like her. I started liking her when she moved in with Shane last season, because Jenny and Shane have such great chemistry, and they had some of the best scenes of the whole show: both of them with perpetually off-center perceptions of the world, Shane with that fabulously expressive face and laconic speaking style (OMG, I just now considered the parallels to Ronon, how fucking weird is that and do I have a type or *what*? It's just not a *physical* type per se), Jenny with that odd mix of utter, incisive pragmatism and that other foot set entirely in her whole crazy inner universe. The only thing I clearly remember of last season's finale was Shane rescuing Jenny, and how they kind of made me cry a little bit. I know, I know, Jenny's utterly batshit insane, but throughout 2nd season, we started to get these looks at what she was like underneath, what happy,stable!Jenny would be like, and she had a sense of humor and a wry outlook and this lovely inner strength that only reinforced my sense that half of what was wrong with Jenny was just the normal stuff that's wrong with those annoying hipster college girls who think they have themselves figured out but are just too young to really have done it. I like that they seem to be letting Jenny get her issues under control and mature -- I'm rooting for her! I particularly loved her scenes with her mom -- the way they started out as a kind of blah, blah, blah homophobic parents tv thing, and then they have that nice scene on the porch where Jenny clearly loves and respects her mother and is pretty admirably good at accepting her mom's problems as just a part of who they are to each other. That was very well done, I think. And we didn't get to see a lot of Moira, but I'm digging her so far. The show doesn't really need another couple, so I'm hoping Moira comes home with her and then we get to see them as single-in-the-city friends having wacky adventures, rather than as a grand romance.
I can't even -- dude, I have *nothing* to say about Carmen and Shane, except OMG, SHOW, DON'T BREAK MY HEART, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! I love them both *so* much, and I've been all about the pairing since Carmen's first *ten seconds* on the screen. I'd tell you what I loved about Carmen and Shane, but I'd just be recapping *every single second* of their scenes in this episode. EVERY SINGLE SECOND. I just -- almighty gah!
BTW, does anyone know where a girl might go to look for L-Word icons?
So it's back to school, and I feel like I'm cheating this semester, because I'm taking a creative writing workshop (that's not *school!* all they want me to do is *write!*) and two 20th century poetry classes, one on modern Irish poetry that is almost entirely Yeats and Heaney, and one on modern British poetry that is...Yeats, Heaney, and some other people. I even have to buy the same *books* for both classes, and I'm already plotting ways to write the same term paper for both. *g*
Me and Yeats are gonna be likethis for a few weeks, here.
I have cannily noticed there are no female poets on either syllabus, and since my fourth class is Shakespeare, that means that for the first time possibly in my entire college career, *I* am the only woman writer I need to know anything about this semester. *g* I was quite startled that the British poetry class didn't have any women, but then as I ticked off Significant Modern Female Poets in my head, I couldn't think of any that weren't American, either. Of course, you've already got your Audens and your Eliots confusing the American/British issue, so you could bring in Gertrude Stein or H.D. on the same passport, I guess. But anyway.
Speaking of lesbian writers, hey, The L Word is back on! I'm way hyped about this season; 2nd was a huge leap better than 1st, and if "Labia Majora" is any indication, it's just going to keep making me happier and happier.
Bette and Tina crack me up. They're constantly entertaining: two women with NOTHING in common, who practically can't bear to live together and yet are even more miserable apart -- it could be horribly twisted, but instead the show writes them as just twisted enough to be fun to watch. Also, goddamn but Laurel is looking good this season. Yeow. I mean, she's always been lovely, but sometimes when you're standing next to Jennifer Beals, you get a little overlooked. New Year's Resolution: don't do that anymore! Because yeow.
Okay, I wasn't too pleased about this whole Alice/Dana breakup/breakdown thing, especially because Chef Woman is so unbearably boring that it really kind of makes you wonder, Dana, wtf? But Leisha does such great comedy, I'm kind of enjoying her grand wig-out -- as long as it doesn't go on for *too* long, 'kay? Also, I have never, ever in my life considered the pairing, but all of a sudden I'm kind of an Alice/Helena shipper. Because what's not funny about that? And I *like* Helena as a character -- althought I didn't at first, because I thought they were just writing her as a wealthy piranha bitch -- but as last season went on, I got kind of intrigued by this idea that as a lover, a mom, and a friend, she's this totally socially distorted person who has *no idea* how to create and maintain relationships, much as she really wants them. I sort of love the idea of her being steamrolled over by Alice, who has no filters and no sense of social obligation whatsoever, but is very genuine in the way that Helena has no idea how to be. And when Helena falls, she *lavishes* her women with attention and adoration, which Alice very clearly needs desperately. They'd be a very odd couple, but this is tv; we don't want them to be *too* compatible, or there's nothing to watch. So, plan of attack for Alice: 1) get your meds straightened out, stat, and b) let Helena spoil you to death. Alice would also be a totally awesome Batty Stepmother (though hopefully they get a solid, no-nonsense nanny to balance out the freak factor in that household a bit).
You know, I'm probably not supposed to say this, but I've done a bit of a slow reversal on Jenny; I really think I like her. I started liking her when she moved in with Shane last season, because Jenny and Shane have such great chemistry, and they had some of the best scenes of the whole show: both of them with perpetually off-center perceptions of the world, Shane with that fabulously expressive face and laconic speaking style (OMG, I just now considered the parallels to Ronon, how fucking weird is that and do I have a type or *what*? It's just not a *physical* type per se), Jenny with that odd mix of utter, incisive pragmatism and that other foot set entirely in her whole crazy inner universe. The only thing I clearly remember of last season's finale was Shane rescuing Jenny, and how they kind of made me cry a little bit. I know, I know, Jenny's utterly batshit insane, but throughout 2nd season, we started to get these looks at what she was like underneath, what happy,stable!Jenny would be like, and she had a sense of humor and a wry outlook and this lovely inner strength that only reinforced my sense that half of what was wrong with Jenny was just the normal stuff that's wrong with those annoying hipster college girls who think they have themselves figured out but are just too young to really have done it. I like that they seem to be letting Jenny get her issues under control and mature -- I'm rooting for her! I particularly loved her scenes with her mom -- the way they started out as a kind of blah, blah, blah homophobic parents tv thing, and then they have that nice scene on the porch where Jenny clearly loves and respects her mother and is pretty admirably good at accepting her mom's problems as just a part of who they are to each other. That was very well done, I think. And we didn't get to see a lot of Moira, but I'm digging her so far. The show doesn't really need another couple, so I'm hoping Moira comes home with her and then we get to see them as single-in-the-city friends having wacky adventures, rather than as a grand romance.
I can't even -- dude, I have *nothing* to say about Carmen and Shane, except OMG, SHOW, DON'T BREAK MY HEART, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! I love them both *so* much, and I've been all about the pairing since Carmen's first *ten seconds* on the screen. I'd tell you what I loved about Carmen and Shane, but I'd just be recapping *every single second* of their scenes in this episode. EVERY SINGLE SECOND. I just -- almighty gah!
BTW, does anyone know where a girl might go to look for L-Word icons?
