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I have a very bad feeling about this. They botched the live action he-man and Jem movies profoundly. Yes they did good with the transformers--but 2 flops out of 3 adaptations is not a good record.
My gut feeling says this is going to be like the he-man live action movie with a retelling of 'cats' thrown in here and there.
well and the other thing too is that this is 1984. Considering how long Egon, Ray, and Peter got their PhDs before that and the requirements to do continuing education (if any) they proably are not working with the same technology we have today.
After all back then there were dot matrix printers, VCRS, cell phones for the people who did have them literally weighed a ton.
I'm a feminist and I like this movie. Please don't presume that we hate masculinity and all men.
Very true....on Buffy Cordelia was little more than a weak 'enemy' ofBuffy's. Since she already had to deal with vampires etc having Cordelia continue to behave like she did post high school would be odd.
and Bruce and Gus were the creeps. Franklin never hit on anybody.
How would that differ from other sitcoms? You're forgetting that co-ed cohabitation was a big deal in the late 1970's. It's not now.
And it would be impossible to juggle roommates including in the era of social media. Cell phones, social media did not exist late 1970's.
But he was nice--so I'm sure Rose and then Sue Ellen did not want to hurt his feelings.
Thanks.
this is like a really warped ep of the love boat (classic).
I don't hate it. I realize most parents cannot and do not deal with difference.
My own parents struggled to understand the ADA and reconcile that with what they had grown up with re people with disabilities not being successful, being locked away. My dad was furious my college and employers did not seek his input re what I should get.
But then you have people like (and I know this is another series/character) Jonathan and Martha Kent. They had wanted a child so badly when one came crashing down in a spaceship they didn't question it. They loved him unconditionally for who he was even when his powers became apparent.
And then in most incarnations Clark grows up the only one exactly like himself. The kents are open minded but they cannot fully connect with his first person experiences. I had tons of questions about my own disabilities growing up. I lived in a City but since this was pre-internet I did not know anybody else like me.
I wish that the sequel had her and Scott getting together. That would have been awesome.
Good points...I am sure Rose told HR she did her own hiring.
Alex didn't have any specific catch phrases.
He said different things related to money, power and/or wealth.
But no one-two single phrases ala Gary Coleman....or even Lisa Whelchel who had catchphrases for their respective characters. Coleman was on NBC until the last season of Different Strokes so that network knew catch phrases worked with viewers.
Fox was instead marketed bc of his looks.
The 90's animated series aired when groups were trying to pass ballot initiatives against gay people themselves. A measure in Colorado passed in 1992, but one in Oregon did not. The Colorado measure was struck down in 1996.
But it's also a metaphor for disability. Cyclops has to wear special glasses or a visor and Professor X is in a wheelchair (in the 1990's its a power/hoverchair). Both Cyclops and Professor x who have visible disabilities are the official team leaders. They speak to others outside of the school. The x-men with invisible disabilities do not have those mentioned leadership roles.
Jean Grey who is Cyclops's romance gets incapacitating migraines. Rogue cannot really control her episodes of draining the energy of others like somebody with epilepsy, diabetes asthma may look 'non disabled' bc of their hidden disabilities until they have their breakthrough episode. So she accommodates by not touching others. Wolverine has PTSD, and Storm is claustrophobic. There is a pecking order inside the disability community itself. Physical and visible disabilities being the most 'legitimate' and invisible/episodic disabilities next. And mental illness is last re recognition and support.
X-men started in 1962 when local public schools were allowed to bar children with disabilities from enrollment. Residential schools (originally called asylums) were established so people with disabilities could be with "their own kind--vs their very own families and local communities. Like those schools, the Xavier Institue's ability to successfully enroll somebody depends on available space. Available enrollment space is not something a person attending the local public school has to consider. None of the x-men's parents come to visit them at the Xavier institute and Gambits are gone. Special education did not exist in America until 1975, after the concept was created.
It is interesting though that a person with disabilities themselves runs this facility vs having 'another' person (without disabilities) do it. The cartoon reflects that it aired just after the ADA was passed. The x men do not need permission from professor x....etc to go off campus. And even though he is a mutant, Gambit has no problem openly flirting with women who are not. The X-men etc expect access to public officials just like people who are not mutants. They expect to be listened to.
One of my other favorite cartoons, the adaptation of teen wolf aired pre-ADA (1986) . So the Mayor in that cartoon actually spends several episodes trying to hunt down people who are werewolves--even though the Howards also pay for his office etc. They might not like what is happening but that family do not go to talk with him about it and do not insist others recognize them as part of the town The difference between these two cartoons is amazing. It reflects what changed re disability.
I thought the big problem was her hair. They did not style it to look period accurate.
Disagree re the age Skeeter herself is only supposed to be early 20's. She stayed at college and completed her undergraduate degree when her then friends left college to get married.
Yeah, it doesn't seem very practical. But then again, most teenagers themselves are too young etc to be nurses in hospitals when they are teenagers. The film wouldn't have been fun without maintaining the fantasy element though.
Carolyn might have been there longer. The lady did not say how many years she was there. We never learn how long Carolyn has been there. Except she is eager to do something else. We also never learn the two employee's education level/prior training.
the original was only made bc Christina Applegate was on Married with Children. Yeah, technology is really outdated from the 1991 movie. But this is why the remake won't work. They can instantly check her age references etc now.
I'm sure now they could have done all kinds of things with a computer. But they were working on a small budget with 1985 technology.