misc reviews
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psocopteraFinding Dory - cried. Thought it was very good. A couple of laugh-out-loud bits too. Discussion question: what if the movie was exactly the same in every way, but the octopus was voiced by, I don't know, Roseanne Barr*. On the one hand, yay more female buddy characters, on the other hand, do Hank's choices in the end suddenly feel self-sacrificial instead of self-actualizing. And does that one bit automatically turn into a reference to a certain famous movie I haven't actually seen but still know the iconic ending of. (*Roseanne was just who first came to mind, as, like, an older female "character actor", but then I looked it up, and the voice of Hank was apparently the guy who played Al Bundy, so Roseanne is like totally exactly the right parallel and I wonder if on some subconscious level I was cued for that by Hank's voice.)
Her Every Wish, Courtney Milan novella. I really like the thing Milan is doing of expanding her serieses into including non-aristocrat couples? Like there's always been some of that in historical romance but very often it's aristo/non-aristo, and I feel like Milan is doing cool stuff with people in social roles I'm not used to seeing in historicals at all? Like obviously there's plenty of both-not-aristos in settings in the American West, cowboys/mail order brides and all that, but, like, actual working-class people in London contemporaneously with Lords and Society and all that? This is neat stuff. I would read a hundred more chapters about Daisy and Crash and their shopkeeping lives. (I would love to have seen a little more done with the implication that Crash is bisexual, I spent most of Unraveled thinking that Smite was bi (that Richard was his ex) and am still sad he wasn't, I can see how Milan just didn't want to go into it with all the complexity of historical attitudes/legalities, but, like, bi hero? that's interesting!) I wasn't super into every aspect of their romance... I thought their conversations were a lot more interesting than their sex... but, like, family dinners, would read so many family dinners with Daisy's mom and Aunt Ree.
Her Every Wish, Courtney Milan novella. I really like the thing Milan is doing of expanding her serieses into including non-aristocrat couples? Like there's always been some of that in historical romance but very often it's aristo/non-aristo, and I feel like Milan is doing cool stuff with people in social roles I'm not used to seeing in historicals at all? Like obviously there's plenty of both-not-aristos in settings in the American West, cowboys/mail order brides and all that, but, like, actual working-class people in London contemporaneously with Lords and Society and all that? This is neat stuff. I would read a hundred more chapters about Daisy and Crash and their shopkeeping lives. (I would love to have seen a little more done with the implication that Crash is bisexual, I spent most of Unraveled thinking that Smite was bi (that Richard was his ex) and am still sad he wasn't, I can see how Milan just didn't want to go into it with all the complexity of historical attitudes/legalities, but, like, bi hero? that's interesting!) I wasn't super into every aspect of their romance... I thought their conversations were a lot more interesting than their sex... but, like, family dinners, would read so many family dinners with Daisy's mom and Aunt Ree.
