'Out Of Gas'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I am assured--though I don't remember this--that I came up to my mother one day out of the blue when I was six or so and asked "so what's with this human mating thing?"
I believe it. Sounds just like me, actually. (Supposedly my reaction to a bare-bones explanation was "oh. That doesn't sound so scary, then." And then I wandered off.)
Sorry to interupt the fond chilhood memories of "The Talk". I think I blocked mine out. I remember my mom bringing it up, but I don't remember a thing about it. Except I'm sure I just wanted to go back to whatever book I was trying to read at the time.
I know it's come up here a few time, and I thought I would mention the ABC/Disney's A Wrinkle in Time movie will be shown this Monday, May 10, beginning at 8:00pm.
The bad news: EW gives it a C-. Their review is white-fonted.
This long-shelved take on Madeleine L'Engle's classic children's tale starts out well, with smarty-pants tween Meg (Katie Stuart) and her little brother, Charles (David Dorfman), brooding over their missing scientist dad. Then hottie Calvin (Everwood's Gregory Smith) shows up, the kids are sucked into a secret world, and the movie spirals into cheesy sci-fi absurdity. Wrinkle's crucial fantasy elements never quite blend with its earthier themes, and the result is just plain silly.
Judging from the picture and the description, I think they may have cast Meg too young, but it's been forever since I read it, so I may be completely off.
Katie Stuart
Huh. That's the actress who played Cassie in Stargate for her first two appearances. That's... nothing at all like I pictured the character she's playing here.
I love Katie! She was also the girl in the first Crow, and Kitty Pryde in X2.
My mother gave us the talk because she caught me overusing the word "fuck." I was using it a lot, pretending I knew what I was talking about in hopes of tricking one of the older kids into revealing the dish. I had no idea it was parent stuff.
Eww.
My mom is a nurse and was the only parent to show up for our sex-ed classes. They all were invited, but only my mom came. As if I weren't unpopular enough already!
I don't remember having The Talk with my mom, but i'm sure I did.
As I assured my father when he asked. I was 22.
Re: "The Talk"
Never were there two parents more grateful to public school systems' mandatory health classes than my mom and dad.
I never had a talk . . . or even a single moment when I "understood". I just looked back one day and thought, "Yeah, I guess that's how all that works."
Um . . . ObThread: Still on my SF lit binge.
Never were there two parents more grateful to public school systems' mandatory health classes than my mom and dad.
Except for my parents. My Talk consisted of "so, you've covered everything in health class? Yes? Good. Just make sure you date Jewish."
My mother's version of the Talk was, "You've read enough to know....." I quickly agreed.