'Touched'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
I don't remember people disliking the fact that Littlefoot was a super Type A -- just that she was all MilitantNative with it.
I found the episode way heavyhanded, and that there was opportunity to be way more clever (not in the bad way) with the ending -- having it that they needed a casino cracked me up, and the mystic light she walked in on also made me laugh -- but it was way too weak, and for the cleverness we know Tim has, so much more, so much less typical could have been done.
But because she was super Type A and Native both, that sort of automatically adds up to militantNative.
Again, not my favorite, but didn't irk me either.
Why, Heather? There's plenty of opportunity to be a hardassed obsessive without being nationalistic -- I know plenty of black people, for instance, who didn't go that way. The fact that her ethnicity drove that is one of the things that bothered me.
Ah, see I think we're seeing it from two different angles. I don't think her ethnicity drove it. I think her topdogism drives her nativism not the other way around. I think if, as she may have expected given her personality type, they'd instantly made her partner at the big firm and she'd been able to go after huge cases, she be happily suing big companies' butts off and smiling for the cameras with nary a thought about the reservation.
I agree Heather. I think until she orgasimed/died in the sauna, she was merely using the tribal traditions as a means to power. Evidenced by the heavy handed and capricious way she "delt" with Sharon, and friends of Sharon.
Eh. I bought it as sincere, with the only tools she had at hand. What changed was her method, and her attitude. Not her goals.
*sniff* It's over. Must now mourn the loss of the third best show EVER.
I think her goal has always been be #1. Plus, she joined the big law firm first, and her need to lord it over Sharon make it seem like her motivations were other than helping out the tribe.
Well, if law was going to be her tool, law school was going to be useful. Going to law school before using the law to protect them made perfect sense to me, without calling her nationalism into question -- it's also something I've seen (and roll my eyes at in fiction, but that's another thing) appropriating the tools of the MAN to uplift the people. But with this crazy look in the eyes. In the end, she does just that, but all subvertily. I thought that was too downplayed, in comparison.
Why didn't people like "Safety Canary?" I really enjoyed that episode. "Cocktail Bunny" was hard for me to watch. Yikes. I think upon additional viewings I'll enjoy it, but seeing Jaye in pain wasn't no fun for me.