Posts by BenWilson
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Up Front: Wonder Bi, in reply to Miche Campbell,
Or you could make them out of glass! But no one does that these days.
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Up Front: Wonder Bi, in reply to Miche Campbell,
692 episodes to catch up on!
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Up Front: Wonder Bi, in reply to Emma Hart,
Basically, LGBT characters are not allowed happy endings.
Unless it’s a Cast Full of Gay. Which is probably why the female prison ones do have characters like Wentworth ’s Frankie, who seduces her psychologist and is eventually released from prison, moves in with her lover, finishes her legal training and is essentially depicted as someone redeemed by the love of a good woman, aided by the majesty of Queen Bea in injecting a moral code into the prison order.
ETA: But this character is exceptional. I guess there’s probably a trope “Some Gays Don’t Die”, which is a corollary of “Anyone Can Die”.
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Up Front: Wonder Bi, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
It's probably harder to depict someone bouncing bullets off their bracelets when absolutely everyone is armed with a machine gun.
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Up Front: Wonder Bi, in reply to James Butler,
because something something consumption by het men?
Pretty sure that's the reason, as is the impossibility of man-man sex ever actually being depicted rudely. But it's at least progress that man-man foreplay is not beyond the pale in mainstream any more. Their actual sex still has to fade to black and re-enter with smoking, like the 70s all over again.
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I doubt I'll continue with Wentworth without Danielle Cormack. OK, The Freak and Vinegar Tits are decent characters, and they hung onto the fantastic Frankie beyond her release as a legal advocate, and Jacs was good before she got killed, and Kaz does angry very well, and the psychologist does give me the creeps.
But without Queen Bea, this is a bit like Outrageous Fortune without Cheryl. It takes a full on reboot like Westside to balance out the character interactions.
Yeah, the rules are definitely different for cable/Netflicks etc. Just like they are for arthouse movies vs block-busters.
Seems to me to be where the art is at, these days. But note: Wentworth is on Freeview...
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I've been seeing a fair few openly bi women in TV series recently. Just finished season one of Orange is the New Black (should I continue? It's already bumming me out) and season 4 of Wentworth. But am I imagining it that there is a consistent theme nowadays that "all bis must die"?
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to goforit,
Hi Ben, has the day in court happened yet.
No, it's mid November.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to goforit,
The Taxpayers Union is pretty much a rent-a-quote for every kind of compliance drop in every part of government at every level, whether it's sensible or completely insane. And yes, that's pretty much their justification for everything. Ultimately they don't see any point in NZTA at all.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to goforit,
Has your day in court happened yet?
Mid November for the first dispute.
When you finally get someone to talk usually off the record the answer becomes “we have been directed from well above to leave Uber alone”.
The anonymity of whoever "well above" is will not last. These people are officials, and the OIA does not permit them to keep hidden if they are making official calls. But I don't think we've even reached that point yet. Currently even understanding what the process even is, by which the government actually does anything about compliance, is taking some doing. It's spread across multiple government agencies, and the coordination and tracking of the effectiveness of it just doesn't seem to exist.
Gut feeling at this stage is that the fines are simply being paid, rather than frustrated in courts. The total amounts aren't serious enough to deter Uber. Not even close.