but i know you just don't care.
Jun. 15th, 2010 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damkiannaSo, a few days ago my family sat down together to watch Young Sherlock Holmes. I will say freely that the beginning was fairly good; tiny!Holmes and tiny!Watson were pretty adorable, and while I knew the moment she came on screen that Elizabeth was going to get fridged to provide Holmes with manpain, I liked her okay. (It was hard to like her a lot, because ... she really didn't do much. Or say much. Or have a discernable personality much.) However, I feel that it rapidly descended into wacky imperialist crack very soon thereafter. Once you have decided to plunk an ancient Egyptian religious cult into the middle of Victorian England, you have pretty much lost me through pure WTF. Once you have decided that the thusly-plunked religious cult was so plunked by two biracial siblings who are on a mission of revenge against the white men who looted the area near their village in Egypt and then (accidentally?) set their village on fire, and that I should therefore dismiss said siblings as psychotic crazies? You have lost me somewhere between bogglement and rage.
I mean, I get that homicide is not okay. But making the revenge backstory one where the five sympathetic and friendly white men now have to fear for their lives from the crazy PoC, just because they once looted an archaeological and religious site and stole five mummified princesses and set a village on fire and presumably killed a lot of people, and then expecting me to want to see Holmes take the crazy PoC down? I can't decide whether that's dumber than it is insulting. Whose idea was this, anyway? Couldn't people have done better than that in 1985? The murder plotline was absorbing enough until the surprise!racist explanations popped up; after that, I was pretty much done.
The worst part is that my dad kept arguing after that the quality of this movie was on par with the RDJ!Holmes movie. Which, uh, no. Just no. (Granted, there was some Egyptian appropriation!fail in that one, but the rational explanation at the end made the guys who did it look pretty stupid, in my opinion.)
And, mostly for my own reference, through nestra's post linking to bossymarmalade, and merry's post linking to amazonziti, a fairly clear picture of some recent fail emerges. I will say that I'm glad gatorgrrrl apologized, though I do think the apology kind of derails itself somewhere in the middle. I can't decide whether I hope she leaves the story up - not for the reasons she cites, just so that all of the original comments stay in their original context, and the whole thing remains on the record. I don't want anyone else hurt by it, but when you say something stupid, whether in a post or through a faily story, it seems wrong to make like you never said it. But I don't know - and it's really up to her, in the end.
On a less faily note, I finally watched A:TLA 3.06 (The Avatar and the Fire Lord) and 3.07 (The Runaway). As always, I wish wish wish the eps had been, like, an hour long, because the dialogue could seriously benefit; but overall, they were pretty good. Oh, Zuko. And Toph - for anyone who did not already know, I HEART TOPH. The only thing that bugged me was Ta Min; I knew her part was pretty darn small, but I thought maybe she would at least have a line. :P Still, I can't wait to get to Day of Black Sun. I have been DYING to get to that ep for ages.
I mean, I get that homicide is not okay. But making the revenge backstory one where the five sympathetic and friendly white men now have to fear for their lives from the crazy PoC, just because they once looted an archaeological and religious site and stole five mummified princesses and set a village on fire and presumably killed a lot of people, and then expecting me to want to see Holmes take the crazy PoC down? I can't decide whether that's dumber than it is insulting. Whose idea was this, anyway? Couldn't people have done better than that in 1985? The murder plotline was absorbing enough until the surprise!racist explanations popped up; after that, I was pretty much done.
The worst part is that my dad kept arguing after that the quality of this movie was on par with the RDJ!Holmes movie. Which, uh, no. Just no. (Granted, there was some Egyptian appropriation!fail in that one, but the rational explanation at the end made the guys who did it look pretty stupid, in my opinion.)
And, mostly for my own reference, through nestra's post linking to bossymarmalade, and merry's post linking to amazonziti, a fairly clear picture of some recent fail emerges. I will say that I'm glad gatorgrrrl apologized, though I do think the apology kind of derails itself somewhere in the middle. I can't decide whether I hope she leaves the story up - not for the reasons she cites, just so that all of the original comments stay in their original context, and the whole thing remains on the record. I don't want anyone else hurt by it, but when you say something stupid, whether in a post or through a faily story, it seems wrong to make like you never said it. But I don't know - and it's really up to her, in the end.
On a less faily note, I finally watched A:TLA 3.06 (The Avatar and the Fire Lord) and 3.07 (The Runaway). As always, I wish wish wish the eps had been, like, an hour long, because the dialogue could seriously benefit; but overall, they were pretty good. Oh, Zuko. And Toph - for anyone who did not already know, I HEART TOPH. The only thing that bugged me was Ta Min; I knew her part was pretty darn small, but I thought maybe she would at least have a line. :P Still, I can't wait to get to Day of Black Sun. I have been DYING to get to that ep for ages.