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What’s Powers about? Is it good?

It’s a TV adaptation from the PlayStation Network (!) of the Powers comic, set in a world where super powers exist. It focuses on a couple of cops that work in the “powers” division, dealing with powered bad guys, and since it’s not part of DC or Marvel, the world’s pretty much new and easy to get into.

I don’t know if I’ve decided if the show’s good, yet, it’s somewhat different in tone from the comic, but seems kind of seedy and lowkey for a show about superpowers. That might be the tone they’re going for, though, they seem to emphasize the darker, R rated tone (not necessarily in the grim Nolan way).

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(Call the Midwife spoilers)

I’m still so sad and upset and I’m not sure why, I’ve seen worse and been more invested. I think it comes down to me expecting to feel sad about the historical treatment of queer people ( don’t think any of us thought they’d move in and that’d be that) but instead, I’m sad about that AND the treatment today. This was so unnecessary, it was gratuitous and cruel and deliberately manipulative, and I feel betrayed. That they only got a main storyline to kill it off like this, in a way that hurt Patsy so much. Because, yeah, ‘60s lesbian, can’t tell anyone! But she can’t even mourn the relationship as she could have a close friend.

And it’s so trivial, what happened. It’s not a death (“at least” as my friend kept trying to tell me), it’s actually a really common trope BEGINNING, it could be solved literally in one instant of memory coming back, hell, it could have (not that it would have) come back before the episode-ending narration/montage, just a shot of Delia jerking upright with widened eyes. But we won’t get it, however simple a solution this time, we still won’t get it, because it’s just easier drama to keep the lesbians sad.

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(Call the Midwife spoilers)

I’m still so sad and upset and I’m not sure why, I’ve seen worse and been more invested. I think it comes down to me expecting to feel sad about the historical treatment of queer people ( don’t think any of us thought they’d move in and that’d be that) but instead, I’m sad about that AND the treatment today. This was so unnecessary, it was gratuitous and cruel and deliberately manipulative, and I feel betrayed. That they only got a main storyline to kill it off like this, in a way that hurt Patsy so much. Because, yeah, ‘60s lesbian, can’t tell anyone! But she can’t even mourn the relationship as she could have a close friend.

And it’s so trivial, what happened. It’s not a death (“at least” as my friend kept trying to tell me), it’s actually a really common trope BEGINNING, it could be solved literally in one instant of memory coming back, hell, it could have (not that it would have) come back before the episode-ending narration/montage, just a shot of Delia jerking upright with widened eyes. But we won’t get it, however simple a solution this time, we still won’t get it, because it’s just easier drama to keep the lesbians sad.

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(Call the Midwife spoilers)

I’m still so sad and upset and I’m not sure why, I’ve seen worse and been more invested. I think it comes down to me expecting to feel sad about the historical treatment of queer people ( don’t think any of us thought they’d move in and that’d be that) but instead, I’m sad about that AND the treatment today. This was so unnecessary, it was gratuitous and cruel and deliberately manipulative, and I feel betrayed. That they only got a main storyline to kill it off like this, in a way that hurt Patsy so much. Because, yeah, ‘60s lesbian, can’t tell anyone! But she can’t even mourn the relationship as she could have a close friend.

And it’s so trivial, what happened. It’s not a death (“at least” as my friend kept trying to tell me), it’s actually a really common trope BEGINNING, it could be solved literally in one instant of memory coming back, hell, it could have (not that it would have) come back before the episode-ending narration/montage, just a shot of Delia jerking upright with widened eyes. But we won’t get it, however simple a solution this time, we still won’t get it, because it’s just easier drama to keep the lesbians sad.

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would you ever want a fried green tomatoes film remake?

What a random and difficult question! 

Done perfectly, all right, sure. But the original was so well cast and just really well done in general, except obviously for the, you know, how they handled the relationship. But the ambiguous nature of it bothered me less than the ending, which, unless the director calls up Fannie Flagg and gets permission to change, we’ll always get anyway.

But representation and faithfulness to the source and all that, I do get that they matter, and I know myself enough to realize just how happy I’d be if they made it explicit, so, yeah. I’d be fine with one. But gosh, the casting would have be perrrfect. I’m still so attached to MSM and MLP.

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would you ever want a fried green tomatoes film remake?

What a random and difficult question! 

Done perfectly, all right, sure. But the original was so well cast and just really well done in general, except obviously for the, you know, how they handled the relationship. But the ambiguous nature of it bothered me less than the ending, which, unless the director calls up Fannie Flagg and gets permission to change, we’ll always get anyway.

But representation and faithfulness to the source and all that, I do get that they matter, and I know myself enough to realize just how happy I’d be if they made it explicit, so, yeah. I’d be fine with one. But gosh, the casting would have be perrrfect. I’m still so attached to MSM and MLP.