Why Are People Saying Such Dopey Things About Orphan Black?
As I've said, JQ and I didn't think much of it, but probably didn't give it enough of a chance. It's the kind of thing we're likely to give another chance...but for the love of God, why do people keep writing such dopey things about it? e.g.:
WTF?
In what possible world is this a surprise?
But my favorite part is really: it's not for example menstrual blood...
For example? Really?
What, exactly, is the type of which this is an example?
Maybe I'm just cranky/overcritical... Pop culture is dumb, and pop culture writing is dumb, and none of it is really expected to make much sense... And I usually only read about this kind of stuff in the morning when I'm trying to wake up. So I'm not exactly at my most charitable...
But come on...
But she’s also weirdly unsexualized. Unlike The Exorcist, which has Regan masturbating with a crucifix, or American Horror Story: Coven, where Zoe liquefies men's brains through sex and Madison wreaks revenge on her rapists by using her powers to overturn the bus, neither Helena's obsession nor her revenge is sex-based. She spends a lot of time covered in blood, her own and others’, but it's never (for example) menstrual blood — kind of amazing for a show built around the trilogy of technology, religion, and female reproduction. There are no vagina dentata here, no fetishized virginity.She spends a log of time covered in blood, but--surprise!--it''s not menstrual blood!
WTF?
In what possible world is this a surprise?
But my favorite part is really: it's not for example menstrual blood...
For example? Really?
What, exactly, is the type of which this is an example?
Maybe I'm just cranky/overcritical... Pop culture is dumb, and pop culture writing is dumb, and none of it is really expected to make much sense... And I usually only read about this kind of stuff in the morning when I'm trying to wake up. So I'm not exactly at my most charitable...
But come on...
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