Mar. 31st, 2010

skywaterblue: (art school perverts)
These videos are viral all over the interweb, and a lot of people I like find them funny. I however, do not, because the tag to all the vids is the Sassy Gay Guy calling the Shakesperian heroine a 'stupid bitch'.

Okay, so let's leave aside the fact that Sassy Gay Friend is at least as annoying and offensive a stereotype as a lot of stupid shit. The central premise of the vids is that you are one of the last people alive in the Western World who still can find a laugh in the Sassy Gay Friend trope. (God bless you, island children who never suffered through interminable seasons of 'Will and Grace' and 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'.)

Does a white man - even a gay one - really HAVE to be the one who tells Ophelia that killing herself isn't a good idea? Really? And then he caps it with 'stupid bitch'.

Anyway, sorry to be the dour killer of fun on that. I feel like a real dyke now, lecturing you all on why just because they're gay doesn't mean they're not white dudes with male privilege. I just thought it was troublesome that my thought was after watching them 'damn, girl, regain some agency and off yourself if that's what you want'.
skywaterblue: (so divine!)


Very cute film! The end song by Sigur Ros got stuck in my head - apparently Abby is a big fan. (She says that she doesn't like their new stuff because 'they discovered happiness' but that I would like the new CD.) Noelle, Shane and the baby were also with us.

And unexpected David Tennant was unexpected. (It's a blink and you miss it VO, like his appearances in the Big Finish audios.)

The one thing I really disliked, though, is that none of the other dragons in the film have remotely the charm of the lead dragon, Toothless. His design is full of appealing Chris Sanders-style. It feels like they probably brought him on to the project to redesign Toothless to be appealing, and they left the other dragons as they were. Which is a success because I want a plush Toothless like ten minutes after I left the theater, but sucks for plot reasons.

Which is to say... )

It had the charm of making me remember what it was like to be eight, in that I left the theater imagining childish fanfiction where they meet a girl Night Fury dragon and she's like TEH AWESOMEST!!

Also, where's my fuckin' Pern movie? Sigh.

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