oh lordy

so, guess who watched an hour and a half of man of steel on sunday after game of thrones?

I was gonna say that I'd been avoiding it for a while, but that would be a lie. I never really wanted to see it. but it was on on the hbo west coast channel (it had come on before in actuality) so I decided to see it for myself.

the kicker, here, is that I actually enjoyed it? like I didn't love it and I definitely didn't hate it. the experience was fun. I laughed at the incompetent things as much as I did at things I genuinely enjoyed or were supposed be funny. I was still mad about pa kent's insistence on reminding clark that he was an miracle while simultaneously keeping him from actually being one. the part where lois says that "here it's an s" still made me mad. but I did enjoy it. women! like 5 female characters showed up, and it passed the bechdel test! there were actual good and cool things in there. and let me tell you, even with all of its pitfalls it was way better than reading the book.

like, I'm glad it turned out to be mediocre instead of outright horrible for me, and I'm glad that I actually got to see it so I can form better opinions on it. I'm still not gonna a buy the dvd though.

okay, so you might have noticed that I deleted my posts about racial representation in speculative fiction. I did it because they were pretty wrong. I explain why in this post: http://witabif.tumblr.com/post/82287350679/i-made-a-lot-of-posts-about-how-talking-about-race

just to keep you updated and informed