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[liptonrm_backup]

I don't have much to say about Show last night. I enjoyed it, it was an interesting mix of horrifying (in an intentional way, not a facepalm-y way) and completely cracked out. I now have the strongest urge to write two codas, one from Alicia's POV and one from the Trickster's. I think I'll poke at both of those today.

It also made me want a Castiel action figure with a little knife. Because, seriously, where are our SPN action figures? I want a Sam and a Dean with an Impala they can ride around in and a John and Bobby and Ellen and Jo and Rufus and everybody. They could make some decent money off of us hordes of ravening fangirls.

Whoever is in charge of SPN's marketing fails so hard.

My brain keeps on pinging back and forth between Good Omens and Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry. Both had young boys with incredible amounts of power who were courted by both the good guys and the bad and both had to choose who they were going to be.

Which all makes me want a story about the girl who is supposed to save or destroy the world, but I've been wanting that story for a while, as you all well know.

I'm also happily excited about a casting spoiler I know about next week's episode. The actor was in the preview so it's hardly a big secret but I'll keep mum, regardless. It just makes me love our Show so hard.

I am happily amused to see people around lj-land falling in love with Vampire Diaries. I'm not watching it because ever since I became a bitter old woman I just don't have the patience for either high school dramas or love triangles but it makes me smile to see that it's getting some love.

I have various other thoughts about things like Mad Men's writing room and why, even though it's largely populated by females, things feel kind of fishy. And I kind of want to talk about Glee that mostly boil down to 'High school choir you are doing it wrong' and 'stop overproducing your music OMG.' But I think I'll just point you in the direction of Amber Riley singing 'Bust Your Windows' and Kristen Chenoweth singing 'Maybe This Time and leave it at that.

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[shanghai-jim.livejournal.com]

Mad Men's writing room and why, even though it's largely populated by females, things feel kind of fishy

You mean the sneaking suspicion that all the depiction of gender roles, and moreover the love it gets from the industry, may NOT be ironic?

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Kind of. From everything I've read I just get this feeling that Matthew Weiner wants to keep a lot of control over his product so he hires female writers because they have fewer opportunities than male writers do. So it's less likely that female writers would vie for more creative control so they can't afford to burn any bridges with Weiner because it's harder for them to get other gigs.

So on one hand his willingness to hire so many female writers is awesome. But it all smells a little fishy.