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Originally posted by Juggernog
Well, World of Warcraft ripped off LOTR and I mean big time and pretty much blatantly
So the question you should be asking is what did the woman that wrote the Potter series steal from the Hobbit.
Originally posted by miniatus
Originally posted by Juggernog
Well, World of Warcraft ripped off LOTR and I mean big time and pretty much blatantly
Yeah? Well Tolkien ripped off World War 1 and 2!edit on 6/20/2012 by miniatus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by miniatus
Originally posted by Juggernog
Well, World of Warcraft ripped off LOTR and I mean big time and pretty much blatantly
Yeah? Well Tolkien ripped off World War 1 and 2!edit on 6/20/2012 by miniatus because: (no reason given)
The only one that notices something is terribly wrong is Wendy's brother, Harry Potter Jr. (Noah Hathaway).
When he tells her of the strange goings-on, she reveals to him her real profession: a witch. Harry asks Eunice to teach him magic
Originally posted by buster2010
The Hobbit books came out well before the Harry Potter books.
So the question you should be asking is what did the woman that wrote the Potter series steal from the Hobbit.
Originally posted by Monicle
Originally posted by buster2010
The Hobbit books came out well before the Harry Potter books.
So the question you should be asking is what did the woman that wrote the Potter series steal from the Hobbit.
At least "some" as Rowling has admitted but the source of Harry Potter was Rowling ripping off an existing manuscript that was delivered to her by an Irishman for safekeeping and publication.
Isn't she wunnerful?
Originally posted by BABYBULL24
Has anyone watched the 1977 Hobbit film?
Just wondering if it is worth checking out...
I have become increasingly interested in examining Joss Whedon’s work from a feminist perspective since I had a conversation with another lesbian feminist sister at the International Feminist Summit about whether Joss was a feminist. I am really quite shocked by how readily Joss is accepted as a feminist, and that his works are widely considered to be feminist.
I decided to start re-watching Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and also to watch Firefly and the movie Serenity. I have to say that now that I have subjected myself to the horror that is Firefly, I really am beyond worried about how much men hate us, given that this was written by a man who calls himself a feminist. I find much of Joss Whedon’s work to be heavily influenced by pornography, and pornographic humour. While I would argue that there are some aspects of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer that are feminist and progressive, there is much that isn’t and I find it highly problematic that there are many very woman-hating messages contained within a show that purports itself as feminism.
But Firefly takes misogyny to a new level of terrifying. I am really, really worried that women can call the man who made this show a feminist. For myself, I’m not sure that I will recover from the shock of watching the malicious way in which Joss stripped his female characters of their integrity, the pleasure he seemed to take from showing potentially powerful women bashed, the way he gleefully demonized female power and selfhood and smashed women into little bits, male fists in women’s faces, male voices drowning out our words.
There is so much hatred towards women contained within the scripts and action of the series that I doubt very much that this post will even begin to cover it. I am going to try to focus on the episodes that were written by Joss Whedon but I will also refer to the series as a whole. As Joss Whedon was responsible for the concept development and was a producer, ultimately I hold him accountable for the depiction of women in the entire season. Only one episode was written by a woman. It was no better or worse in its depiction of women than the ones written by men.
The pilot episode, Serenity, was written and directed by Joss Whedon. The basic plot of the series is Malcolm Reynolds and his second in command Zoe, have made a new life for themselves after fighting a war against the Alliance, which they lost. They bought a Firefly, an old space ship, and Mal calls it Serenity, after the last battle they fought for the Independence. The pilot of the ship, Wash, is Zoe’s husband. Kaylee is the ship’s mechanic and Jayne, the final member of the crew, is the brainless brawn. This bunch of criminals go around stealing things and generally doing lots of violence.
They also take on board passengers. There is Inara, a Companion (Joss Whedon’s euphemism for women in prostitution). She rents one of the ship’s shuttles. Simon, a doctor and his sister River. And a Shepherd (which means preacher), a black male character. The first scene opens in a war with Mal and Zoe. Zoe runs around calling Mal ‘sir’ and taking orders off him. I roll my eyes. Not a good start.
The next scene is set in the present. Mal, Jayne, and Zoe are floating about in space. They come into some danger. Mal gets all panicky. Zoe says, “This ship's been derelict for months. Why would they –” Mal replies, (in Chinese) “Shut up.” So in the very second scene of the very first episode, an episode written and directed by the great feminist Joss, a white man tells a black woman to ‘shut up’ for no apparent reason. And she does shut up. And she continues to call him sir. And takes his orders, even when they are dumb orders, for the rest of the series.