Sunday, November 18, 2007
PBS
The miniseries, The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard, concluded tonight here in the NY area. It was well written and even a bit thoughtful, so my friend and I enjoyed it over the last few weeks. Jane Horrocks is a terrific actor, as are the others. The ending, however, was appallingly unsatisfying. It isn't real life, after all, so it's really a cheap thing to do to end a show without coming to any real resolution of the many many things that were in motion. You could assume a few things, but you didn't know them - and after all the minute details to which we'd been treated in the lives of these people, a "well maybe this but maybe that" ending just doesn't cut it.
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| posted by jau at 11:54 PM
jau — at 11:10 AM, November 19, 2007:
ligneus — at 10:47 PM, November 19, 2007:
| posted by jau at 11:54 PM
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jau — at 11:10 AM, November 19, 2007:
I don't disagree with you as far as the sound of that, but I'm getting acclimated, apparently. And there really are times when the girl version of a word seems to demean the role, so I'm trying to be more even handed with my language. With apologies to the discomfort!
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ligneus — at 10:47 PM, November 19, 2007:
I didn't mean to cause you discomfort! However, I think it demeans women to think they have to take the male word for the job in order to show they are the same or equal and I come back to if princess is still OK, and obviously can't be changed, then why should words like actress be any different? It's the sneaky Orwellian process that is Political Correctness along with the nanny state whereby the lefty elites think they know what's best for everyone.
That might seem a bit of a heavy load for a mere word like actor to carry, but straws in the wind and all that.
That might seem a bit of a heavy load for a mere word like actor to carry, but straws in the wind and all that.
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