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9 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Buffy th... · 0 replies · +2 points

And then I am just confused by the show having Spike do things like, I don’t know, constantly invade Buffy’s space and refuse to leave her alone. It’s just so creepy to me! It makes me uncomfortable regardless of whether Buffy is attracted to him. Like, for real, the guy just can’t take no for an answer sometimes, and it bothers me. Now, is this Spike’s selfish demon coming out, or is this just an inconsistency on the part of the writers?

Yes, I found that uncomfortable. I was also uncomfortable by the way Buffy invaded Spike's space . . . in a rather violent manner. Yet, the writers treated the moment as comic relief.

9 years ago @ http://fangsforthefant... - Once Upon a Time, Seas... · 0 replies · +1 points

Great! Emma just went against Killian's wishes and committed psychic rape against him. Just wonderful.

9 years ago @ http://fangsforthefant... - Drums of Autumn (Outl... · 0 replies · +1 points

And this cruel lesson to Brianna about not blaming herself for being raped, comes courtesy of her father Jamie, the male protagonist of this series. To her credit, Brianna does become enraged by this assault; however, her feelings of anger don't last long because once she understands that she couldn't have defended herself against her rapist, Brianna breaks down in tears. For his part, Jamie justifies the assault of his daughter, as teaching her lesson because she would have been to stubborn to believe him, if he had just used words. As a father, Jamie certainly is a winner isn't he? However did Brianna grow to be a capable young woman without his influence?

What the hell? What the hell is wrong with Diana Gabaldon? Oh my God! This is just sooo wrong in many ways! And disturbing. What is this pseudo incest?

9 years ago @ http://fangsforthefant... - Voyager (Outlander #3... · 0 replies · +1 points

Glancing covertly around the circle of faces, I was struck by their strangeness. These were the faces of Africa, and alien to me; not faces like Joe's that bore only the faint stamp of his ancestors, diluted by centuries of European blood. Black or not, Joe Abernathy was a great deal ore like me than these people - different to the marrow of their bones. (pg 921)

May I ask why Diana Gabaldon seemed to believe that dark-skinned people of African ancestry no longer exist in 21st century North America and Europe?

9 years ago @ http://fangsforthefant... - Voyager (Outlander #3... · 0 replies · +1 points

•Geillies Duncan isn't really dead and shows up long enough to be evil and inspire a slave rebellion

Anyone who inspires a slave rebellion is not evil in my eyes.

9 years ago @ The Toast - A New Version of You · 0 replies · +1 points

What is really disturbing is that the love of Buffy's life is a being whose personality is more or less constructed from a spell . . . or a curse. Remove that spell and you have a psychotic being - vampire, human, or whatever. Now if Angel had been able to develop on his own without the benefit of the spell, I think I would have been a bit more impressed at the idea of him as Buffy's love of her life.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Order In Which I W... · 0 replies · +3 points

Plus the backstory with Phillip was still too vague for me to rank him below Vera.

Phillip was responsible for the murder of 21 men in order to acquire diamonds. The series made it clear. In the novel, he was responsible for the deaths of those men in order to save his hide during some march or safari. Those men had done nothing to him to warrant their deaths. And he wasn't particularly remorseful about their deaths, partly due to the fact that they were African . . . none white. Even in this latest series, Lombard made a comment about how his action wasn't the first time that white men had meted out death in Africa. In his eyes, he does not see why every else should be upset over his actions.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Order In Which I W... · 0 replies · +17 points

In the novel, Emily Brent was especially put off by Lombard's murder of the 21 East Africans. She loathed his racist dismissal of those men, by regarding them as non persons. And when Vera tried to dismiss his actions, Miss Brent went out of her way to point out those black men were human beings and not non persons, regardless of their race.

11 years ago @ http://www.pageturners... - Sleeping Murder by Aga... · 0 replies · +1 points

One of my favorite Miss Marple stories. There hasn't been an adaptation that did real justice to it yet.

14 years ago @ Little White Lies - In... - Escape Artist – Reme... · 0 replies · +1 points

[" The fact that Hudson was (though never publicly admitted) gay, in all likelihood gave him the subliminal ‘safeness’ which so often attracts women to homosexual men, making films he appeared in popular with female audiences. "]

I think you're really reaching here, speaking as a woman. I was a fan of Rock Hudson because he was a great dramatic actor, a superb comedic actor and good looking. His homosexuality or "safeness" played nothing into my feelings for him. I think you're trying to say something about his homosexuality that has nothing to do with his screen appeal.

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