Let me
start off with that the early reviews of the new Ghostbusters movie are looking
good, sure it seems that it went the road of Star Wars and played it a bit too
safe. But to be fair the movie is 30 years old and never had the pop-culture presence
that Star Wars had. Now I have stayed away from plot reviews and you can bet
your arse on me doing a full review once I go see it. But for now things are
looking good and I can´t help but feel a tiny bit smug.
And now back to your
regular scheduled programming.
So having
some free time I decided to finally dive in to NCIS: Los Angeles. Having been a
fan of the earlier seasons if NCIS and that this series dropped any pretense on
being based in reality, it pretty much fixed all the things that annoyed me
with the original one. Now the show itself is pretty much what you expect from
a crime drama/action show. But what makes me appreciate it is how well it deals
with humor, especially the character of Hetty. Hetty is the operational manager
(aka big boss) and is played by the amazing Linda Hunt. Now Linda Hunt is a
short woman and the series use this to the max by not only playing with our
established idea of power and the attributes tied in to it. The writers also
elegantly weave jokes about the fact that she is short in to the story in such
a way that it empowers and even humanize the character. This is sadly an
uncommon occurrence in modern day TV. Way to often I see writers lean on broad
stereotypes and go for the simple laughs. As an overweight person myself, I belong
to a group that way too often see this treatment. In general overweight males
end up in one of three groups. The creep, the looser or most often… the
punchline.
So to see a
show that actually use a none normative character, putting a female with a look
and stature that would normally exclude her from playing powerful roles as not
only a strong lead but also write her as someone who has seen it all and have
favors to call in from pretty much everyone. It is refreshing. Now I am only in
season two (of eight) at this point so it might change but if so, at least they
did it. We need more thinking like that. Breaking down the typical image of how
things are “supposed” to be. Because stagnation is not good for anything.
This is
perhaps the biggest responsibility we have as a generation. We are now moving
in to power and society has never been more open. We hold the keys to forming a
new order of things. Don´t believe the knuckledraggers who try to paint
equality and acceptance as something negative and dangerous. Don´t buy in to
the idea that the goal is precis and absolute balance and thus an impossible
goal. It is about giving everybody the
same basic chance and not provide a fast lane just because the person have
dick. There will always be way to buy in to a fast lane, sail a gravy boat up
the river privilege. But how about we try to widen that lane.
Also for
the fucking love of all that is holy…..
STOP…
HURTING… PEOPLE… JUST… BECAUSE… YOU… DO… NOT… AGREE… WITH… THEIR… LIFE… AND…
CHOICE.
Who someone
is and what they do should not be a concern of you as long as they are not
hurting anyone. I know it is easy to fall back on threats and false bravado
when faced with something that if different. Heck I do it myself sometimes, for
an example I have at points wished bodily harm on people like the core of
Westborough Baptist church and other right wing conservatives. But then I remind
myself that abuse is the only language they speak and it would have no effect.
Violence does not solve anything, not really.
Ok that
became a bit political… but hey fuck it… this is my blog and if you do not like
it you can write a comment and tell me so. We do after all live in a free
world.
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