Ok, I know people are probably going to say this is an old lady brand, but I really like the
Lands End Supima Cardigans.
If you think I'm going to make fun of you for finding a good cardigan, you're mistaken! I literally just want some plain cardigans, so I'll check these out. Thanks!
Just finished watching Stranger Things 2 and this article (spoilers obviously) really got into something that I had hoped this season would fix:
Stranger Things 2 keeps its "strong female characters" apart from one another, like every Hollywood genre property.
Thoughts?
I think this is very fair. This actually helps clarify some of my annoyance with this season (which I overall loved & thought was better than season 1), which was that every single female character is in a relationship. Usually I'm such a sap that I wouldn't be bothered by that, but I found myself
really noticing.
And I think having all the women isolated from each other within their own little group of male characters made it feel like they were being viewed as romantic prospects rather than as women who happen to have romance in their lives. Max was the worst for this imo. She has her own separate problems going on, but the romance (I feel weird calling it 'romance' when it's a cute preteen crush, but yeah) involving her is almost completely from the boys' perspective. At some point she's just kind of in to it? And it was cute, but I had a definite feeling of "this is a male perspective".
Edit: And now that I'm thinking about it more, they're all in the middle of love triangles too... So there's focus on which guy will "win." Eeugh... Or in ElevenxMikexMax's case of course you've got tension between the only two girls in the group.
Stranger Things improved on a lot of its criticisms from season 1, though, and I'll applaud them for that. Hopefully they keep listening and do even better next season!
This article actually reminds me of a scene in Battlestar Galactica that seemed off to me when I was watching it. It was a really tense scene involving, like, politics or military strategy (I can't remember) and there were three female characters facing off. No men present. And I realized it seemed "off" to me, because I'm not sure I'd
ever seen that before on TV or in a movie. Love that show.
If I had, say, the minority opinion that DR1 is better than DR2, is DR3 worth buying?
It depends. What did you like more about DR1? Did you
not like DR2? I saw a few people who preferred DR1 who loved DRv3, but I'm not sure it meant anything bigger.