Obviously the Ellen Page part I agree with (should I have been keeping track of these?) but Hailee Steinfeld? Hmm. You know, I guess I do see parts there, but just parts. Not like some of the other names where she could be a younger version.
I’ve mostly seen clips and gifs but how old are the warrior nun ladies supposed to be? Like are they teen nuns? I see a lot of shipping of Ava but she looks so young to me like 15? And the other girls look early 20s. I know casting is weird and adults play teens and vice versa but I’m confused.
I think Ava is 19, and the others range from around there to mid 20s.
ooo what’s this perry show? is it any good, i saw tatiana maslany is in it
Honestly, I’m not loving it as a whole. >_> It’s a reboot of the original Perry Mason show, which aired all the way back in the ‘60s! But that was a legal drama, here, they’ve made him a private detective. My own memories were of catching reruns of not the original show but the TV movies they made with the same actors many years later but I still didn’t even watch those, I just saw some old guy in a court and that was it.
History lesson aside, this is HBO so of course it’s Prestige, with the money to match. They’ve changed the time and set it back in the ‘30s, investigating a baby kidnapping/murder. It’s not just a mystery, right, there’s a lot of setting the scene and supporting background work. Tatiana Maslany’s character is an evangelical (based on the same real life person Kerry Bishe’s character in Penny Dreadful: City of Angels was) who offers some of that color, and is supporting the dead baby’s mother.
I’m finding it gorgeous to look at but not really particularly compelling, otherwise. Yet, anyway. Della Street is the secretary of the lawyer who keeps Perry hired, and is pretty independent-minded and awesome, so her parts are cool but she’s not anywhere near the lead, so. This fourth ep was the first with any details about her background, and they weren’t much.
since Aeon Flux I have wanted Charlize Theron to be a gay in an action movie! and I am only watching a few spoilers here, but it seems she wont be kissing any girls in this. (yes, i know we got atomic blonde, but how did that end huh?) yes, I am greedy. I do want her to be gay in ALL movies she plays the main action hero! whatever
Haha, yes, once I found out what was gonna happen in Atomic Blonde, I lost interest.
She’s not explicitly wlw in this, although as I said to a friend, she certainly looks it, and a badass woman with no m/f romance, that’s…kind of ours by default, lol, I totally get what you mean. But there is something subtexty in this that was canon in the comics. There’s still story left to tell and a clear setup for a sequel, so I think there is still the possibility it’ll go there, and if not, maybe that’s for an okay reason, considering literally what we just said about Atomic Blonde. Depending on where it goes. 😮
And another anon:
Really hoping that any potential Old Guard sequel doesn’t pull a ‘I want to kill you’ because Misunderstanding™️’ plot
I mean, is it a misunderstanding? If she’s mad that they stopped looking, that’s kind of true. Whether it was immediately or some years after, I don’t think that’d make much of a difference to her and I get it! God, cruelty in what she suffered…
And another anon:
The Old Guard was really great. Charlize is usually meh to me but she was great and Kiki Layne is a star! I loved Joe and Nick as well, and I know it’s not a typical superhero movie but I couldn’t stop thinking of those marvel movies where they state after the fact that the neighbour who was in 1 scene was gay or they claim a look exchanged between nameless background characters was because love. That’s good I guess but also lazy, and we deserve more. JoexNick was such a welcome surprise.
It wasn’t good, don’t give them any credit for that! Booo, weakass blockbuster rep, booooo.
Joe and Nicky were great, and the softie that I am, I loved that they just got to be in love through the whole thing, no Conflicts because they were Tiring of Each Other After All This Time or whatever.
I used to be pretty ambivalent to Charlize but lately she’s just been getting more badass and hotter to me, so I’m slowly becoming an actual fan instead of neutral. I loved her in this one.
Kiki Layne was great! She played the full rollercoaster her arc demanded of her so well, coming into her own and making herself a real part of the team in such a short time, all while staying relatable and likeable.
Thoughts on Naya? I’m kinda heartbroken ? I grew up with glee and Santana Lopez meant so much to me
Oh, I’m so sorry, anon. I have the same thoughts as everyone, I guess, what a tragic, tragic thing to happen, somehow made even harder to process because there’s nothing to “blame”, it’s all just a horrible accident.
I didn’t really keep up with a lot of the Glee BTS but I’m seeing such an outpouring of love for her now and it really speaks so highly of her, how much she made people struggling to not feel so alone feel like they weren’t. And it looks like she had found a good place in her life with her son so it feels like an extra hard blow, for them both to lose their future together.
I don’t really have anything to say, like everyone who’d first heard about what happened, I hoped against hope that there’d be a surprise happy ending to it all but that seems increasingly unlikely. I don’t know what the best way to grieve is, everyone has their own way, good luck with getting through this until it isn’t such a present source of grief in your life.