I think Plei is reading it correctly, and I also think that Joss has no intentions of doing something
anti-feminist, and probably has no idea he is/has/was doing things. He seems to read himself as a crusader FOR feminism, which frankly makes it slightly more annoying, but it isn't a big button for me personally-- don't know why. But I can't engage in a conversation about Wall-E because it is so lovely, and then we learned that human's gluttonous and obese ways ruined the earth and even though they didn't mean to say that all fat people are sitting sround eating their weight in babies each day until the end of humanity as we know it-- they did. And you can tell me to calm down or that there are so many other things right, and I can enjoy the love story, but I can't get past it because If they had say, some extremely fat overcomsumers, and some extremely skinny overconsumers of plastic surgery/Hollywood idealswhatever, than I could have lived with it. I also have RAGING class issues. I think I can only have so many buttons if I don't want to completely explode.
So Plei, I feel your pain, and even though it is only an annopyance to me and does not fill me with rage, I still understand, and I still see it there
Also, that was a crosspost with beth- I didn't mean to sound like I was disagreeing with you so vehemently.
No worries Sophia, I don't feel beaten on. I just was trying to explain why there was no ping for me. But I am wondering if I just don't ping easily.
From your example of wall-e. I see exactly what you are saying , however -- I felt that the people on the ship were manipulated into ' being comfortable' and honestly it isn't hard to appeal to most people's lazy side. And it also helps that the concept of giant smoothies is one of those things that is an evil in the food industry. And I have a lot of guilt about food that get thrown out. But I see exactly what you are saying-
but it hits annoyance level, not rage
t running into thread with my hand over my eyes
Y'all, I'm not ignoring what you wrote or anything - it's just that I didn't get to watch the 3rd part, and can't have a way to watch it now (as far as I know, the ways to pay for it now are for UnUnAmericans only, at least for now, and I'm the prude-who-wouldn't-ahem), so in order to not be spoiled, I just have to not enter this thread at all until after I watched.
Sigh.
Nilly, I haven't watched part three, and I'm betting it will be on you tube, or somewhere.
I was thinking about that yesterday, when I realized that I wasn't going to make it to work to watch it, and then I started thinking about the whole GD II incident, and how life would have been so much easier had youtube been around.
it's just that I didn't get to watch the 3rd part, and can't have a way to watch it now
Why not? It's still online at drhorrible.com.
Sophia, WRT your
Wall-E reading, I had read that one of the things they were trying to get "right" is to demonstrate the long term effects of weighlessness, which leads to loss of bone structure and increased weight. For me, that explanation woulda been more compelling if the inhabitants of the ship actually experienced weightlessness.
So far the biggest takeaway from Dr. Horrible that I have is that after it finally drove me to make my first purchase on iTunes, I come to find out that my computer is a complete piece of shit and I need to buy a new one. sob
Joss answers questions: [link]
