Erin Derwin

I feel like this articles is the beginnings of an idea for an article about whether historical accuracy is important or not. Pursue this topic more and come back to it. You have so much more you could do with this!

Sorry for the spelling errors. There are some rookie spelling issues in there.

I think there is a problem of the show’s female villains, but not in the same way shown in the article. All of these female villains want something different in their lot in life, but the good guys keep telling them to accept what life has given them. For the Evil Queen she is told to accept her loveless marriage and to back down and let Snow rule soley based on blood. She is supposed to stay in her place.

Cora’s whole goal is to socially climb to power, but she is also told she would have been happier if she kept her first born child and stayed poor instead of rising above the rulers who are clearly terrible people. Then we have her daughter Zelena who has had a miserable life and is told to accept being treated lesser by her family. And now she is trapped in a cell and doomed to never know her own child. And as an audience we are supposed to be okay with this.

Then Ursula is a villain cause she didn’t want to be controlled by men and we are supposed to be happy when she concedes to men, especially her father when he gives her voice back (and there is apparently know way she can reclaim this for herself) and we are supposed to be happy with her going back to her prison with him, just to sing for him. Stuff like this I find problematic.

For Derek is his most memorable work and is a sign of the changing artistic movements taking place. He has been steeped in irony and is now looking towards the authentic. For me this is by far his best work as he ventures into the lives of the elderly which are never looked into. The show presents the lives of people that television refuses to tell. Which is what Gervais did with The Office as well. Derek isn’t meant to be a comedic piece at the forefront.

The other dimensions that everyone wants to see are there, they are very subtle. When Derek talks about how no one is surprising because we are all surprising is where the dimension happens. Derek sees kindness in everyone when others (apparently the audience) does not. There is a lesson of patience there. I hated Geoff throughout the second series, but when Hannah didn’t fire him I had to rethink my own judgement of him. Especially, when he walked back in to give out tea. The exterior is not the interior.

That is the fantastic bit about theory. There is not one that has ever been fully concluded. Every theory is in constant debate and will never have one definition. If it comforts you, you can see this article as having an additional argument as to what exactly third wave feminism can be defined as.

I will have to read that!

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I really appreciate this structuralist approach to Gaiman’s works. He is doing something new but with the nostalgia of past fantasy and myths.