Dollhouse

Just got done with introducing my boyfriend to Dollhouse (2009-2010) and fell in love again.

There is just something about this series.

For one, Joss Whedon really knows how to make characters.

TOPHER: "Because I was designing a person not a roomba. I needed you to be whole.".  

Joss designs people, not characters. The characters are real. Have all their own baggage that make them think, talk, and can't be wiped away.  I think that's why I love Victor/Anthony & Sierra/Priya so much. Their love goes straight to the core, nothing can shake it, no matter what anyone else does.

There's a wonderful video capturing some awesome moments of this mixed together by Sullavespa90:-

The look of pure love at 2:42 melts me, every time.

So this show reflects back to us a good portion of just how screwed up humanity is, can be, will be, even in the innocence of following a genius thought to its hideously dark conclusion and then having to deal with those consequences. This show does cause and effect beautifully. It all stitches together so very smoothly and all the characters follow their own cause and effect.

ECHO: I know, I know, actions have consequences.

DEWITT: What if they didn't?

Also, I think what I LOVE, is the variety of female characters portrayed in this show and the amazing amount of growth they are allowed to have. They can be badass, or just want to live normally, there are upper management and the worker bees, there are the ones that build their own identity from the ground up. There are damsels in distress and distressing damsels.

I really love this show, and the fact it finished. There was a conclusion (as much as I didn't want to reach it again...no more Dollhouse episode notes to snuggle up to).

Themes: Love (on many different levels, the love for Dewitt has for Topher is so touching), identity, humanity's facets, technology, humanity bringing itself to ruin. Technology ruining the world, technology helping it. What is helping really?

Curiosour and Curiouser...

It's hard to remember life without the internet. For my mum? Not so much. Her house forbids net use (literally a dead zone). In an awesome phone conversation, I gave her a little snap shot of what's going on the net today. Not so much the obsession with cats (I do that quite well off the internet thanks to Ziggy, Santa and MingMing) but the fact that there are actually world wide conversations that are happening, that increasingly more people are able to access every day. Just some of the topics that are up for discussion at the moment:-

Lesbian and Gay Rights

How much Abbott sucks at life, let alone his job. He seems to working off a different job description than the Australian people gave him...

Body Image and Beauty

 http://www.upworthy.com/barbie-please-a-new-doll-for-kids-resembles-actual-humans-bonus-she-doesnt-walk-on-her-toes

Rape Culture & Consent

http://www.doctornerdlove.com/2013/03/enthusiastic-consent/

Girls - my god girls in movies... this is a great test you should do for EVERY movie you come across:

http://www.feministfrequency.com/2009/12/the-bechdel-test-for-women-in-movies/

Wars and what's actually happening in the world...

Having this talk with my mumma had a kind of eye-opening effect when she said
"I am so excited that you live in this age where these things are actually being discussed and heading for change."

So here's to keeping yourself in the conversation. Being curious, finding out the ins and outs and working out what you believe and stand for. 

Look around...

I am forever curious, yet seem to be so endlessly distractable that I don't take the time to actually take in what I'm surrounded by.

My curiosities light up like little sparkles of light in the night sky, but before I can get close enough to focus on one, another one lights up, and I start moving towards that one.  I never reach either one, and suddenly I'm constantly seeking knowledge, but never truly knowing anything.

I get inspired, I want to draw dragons, and sunlight and autumn crunchiness.  But then I'm forced to realize that I love these things, am surrounded by them, but never actually notice what they look like.  How to capture their form?  I don't even know what I believe them to truly look like.  I'll start by drawing the dragon's head...but...what dragon's head?  Is it angular, feline, clipped jaws, have whiskers, a pug nose, steam/gas, fangs?  

Nature changes around me, welcomes me as I skip through it, a whirlwind always trying to catch what's just ahead.  A carrot on a stick.  But I don't actually notice what it's doing.  What happens in an Australian winter?  What are our animals doing? What kind of energy is swirling around me?  In the northern hemisphere, winter is dead, things go to bed, the world sleeps.  Australia...the frogs welcome the rain with their joyous calls, the grass shines green, magnified a thousand times through the faceted rain droplets.  That is not sleep, that is the world coming alive, the earth's blood dripping down, renewing her life.

So, it's simple.  I need to really go out and look, take some time each day to let my curiosities actually come back with facts, before whisking my attention to the next loudest curiosity child.  Sitting out in nature, watching how lighting truly works, listen to what people really say.  Note it down so it forces me to focus!

I need to do my own research.  What do I want to know?  What do I love that I'm not actually paying enough attention to?  What should I love that I'm not paying attention to?

Curiosity is a driving force, I've just got to take the reigns so I can explore.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but, satisfaction truly will bring it back.