Writer's Block: Little Women

Yay! A Little Women's meme!

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Jo. A thousand times Jo.

I wanted to be Jo when I was little, and I still want to be Jo. She was a feminist before her time; she was a reader and a writer; she was independent and opinionated; she was spunky, yet selfless; she was creative and artistic (in a literary and theatrical sense); she was the heart of her family; and she was always interesting. The only thing I didn't like about Jo was that she didn't love Laurie in the way that I wanted her to. Other than that, she was fantastic.

Amy, on the other hand, will always be one of my least beloved characters of all time. I hate Amy. I've always hated Amy, from her first appearance on the page to her last scene in the latest movie version. Amy pushes all of my buttons. She pushes my buttons because I am an older sister with no patience for whining younger sisters. Also, because, as a writer, I fully identified with Jo's rage and cheered on her violent retaliation when Amy burned Jo's writings. She didn't even do it to me, but I'll never forgive her for that. I'll never forgive her for marrying Laurie either, but I am admittedly a life-long Jo/Laurie shipper.

I never know what to do with people who like Amy or Amy/Laurie. Why? I don't think Amy had more fun. If Jo was shown as raging more often, then it was because she was passionate about things, and the world wasn't necessarily ready for someone like her yet. Amy was passionate about nothing but herself, yet she received everything that should have been Jo's (Laurie and the trip to Europe) when she deserved none of it.

Yes, I clearly feel an irrational investment in Little Women. :P

Heroes S3 E11 (The Eclipse: Part 2)...

Eight days till The Dark Knight Returns comes to DVD! Hells yeah. But it's [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] time, ya'll.

The writers have been saying from the beginning that we should be patient and wait to judge the season on the revelations of later episodes. I dutifully ignored them. S1 slowly drew things out, but every episode was still standalone awesome, so yeah, nice try. But thanks to the set-ups for all the lovely and hopefully non-continuity-raping tie-ins with S1 and "The Company Man" in this episode leads me to wonder if maybe perhaps that wasn't complete bullshit. Mostly bullshit, but not complete bullshit. Maybe. Anywayz.


( Forward march, onto the snark... )

Since I'm too lazy to turn off the television after Heroes ends, and I'm usually writing out this review anyway, I've been (accidentally) watching My Own Worst Enemy. I'm half-intrigued by whatever the hell is going on each week, but I'm annoyed that my half-investment is being rewarded by a premature cancellation. The shows that I watch, even accidentally, don't get canceled. That's for other people's shows. WTF?