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May. 1st, 2013 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotNo strong feelings about Journey to the Center of the TARDIS (okay, I did think it made very little sense overall and maybe I just need to rewatch it as usual but I still don't get why half of it happened ... and I think fucking with your brother by making him believe he's an android is kind of funny), but I do have a coupla things to say about OUAT, specifically: REGINA. GIRL, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?
I feel as sorry for her as anyonewho isn't overidentifying with her - her life story is rotten, and even at her worst in Storybrooke she's still thinking of Henry - but they have made her so deluded and even stupid that I'm not sure they can properly redeem her. I've been thinking for a while that she lacks the kind of insight into her problems that's necessary to redemption, she can't see that her revenges have been often more about satisfying her own anger rather than true justice.
Of course being this blind isn't a total bar to redemption, but the fact that she's come close to recognizing that she's flawed only to rebound back to "Henry, if I kill everyone and we're together forever, won't you love me?" means that she has so, so far to go, and I'm just never confident that any tv show can last too long. (OTOH, Lost's success means they might give K&H exactly as long as they request to finish the story.) And I can't imagine what it would take to make her turn it around. I thought realizing Cora used her would do it, but if that couldn't ... what? Her love for Henry, which I would like to be a True Love, ultimately appears to be selfish, and while I think Regina would like for it not to be, I'm just not sure she has it in her anymore to change herself.
Also, I think Regina should have realized she was actually the bad one the minute she first looked into the mirror in that Steampunk Nazi Officer outfit.
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I really, really need to get going on my TulipFest dress ... I'm just so tired after work, and I'm trying to get myself into bed with the lights off at ten tonight. But maybe if I get out a pattern and some paper I can at least get the bodice worked out.
Allergies still terrible. I forgot to take a Claritin this morning and was really just the same as yesterday, but maybe it needs to get a certain concentration in the system to get going? I'll try to remember one tomorrow.
I feel as sorry for her as anyone
Of course being this blind isn't a total bar to redemption, but the fact that she's come close to recognizing that she's flawed only to rebound back to "Henry, if I kill everyone and we're together forever, won't you love me?" means that she has so, so far to go, and I'm just never confident that any tv show can last too long. (OTOH, Lost's success means they might give K&H exactly as long as they request to finish the story.) And I can't imagine what it would take to make her turn it around. I thought realizing Cora used her would do it, but if that couldn't ... what? Her love for Henry, which I would like to be a True Love, ultimately appears to be selfish, and while I think Regina would like for it not to be, I'm just not sure she has it in her anymore to change herself.
Also, I think Regina should have realized she was actually the bad one the minute she first looked into the mirror in that Steampunk Nazi Officer outfit.
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I really, really need to get going on my TulipFest dress ... I'm just so tired after work, and I'm trying to get myself into bed with the lights off at ten tonight. But maybe if I get out a pattern and some paper I can at least get the bodice worked out.
Allergies still terrible. I forgot to take a Claritin this morning and was really just the same as yesterday, but maybe it needs to get a certain concentration in the system to get going? I'll try to remember one tomorrow.
