I refuse to watch the Good Doctor, it gets clowned on, Atypical is offensive as fuck and I don’t find Sheldon Cooper endearing anymore. I admittedly (and foolishly) enjoyed Big Bang Theory until I saw it picked apart and realised the error of my ways. He’s insufferable and you shouldn’t be forced to find him loveable with a few “tender but patronising” moments where he’s “human” enough for you to love. So you can’t make me like Bones, or any of these other shows. There’s another movie that oversympathises with the parent who just can’t be happy like his naive little autistic kid, who’s so happy but whose disorder makes his dad so miserable. If your autistic kid is actually happy most of the time, you need to shut the fuck up and appreciate they can even be happy in this fucking world. You think they’re immune to your emotions, wrong fucko, they’re absorbing them every second and if you’re sad and shitty, they’ll be sad and shitty AND feel responsible, and assume if they don’t modify their behaviour, you’ll never love them. We sponge up all the energy in the room so if you’re projecting stress and worry and anger, we suck it up and internalise it and do anything to avoid your reactions. Parents feeling sorry for themselves over an autistic kid need more fucking therapy than the kid does. Do the work and reconcile this, don’t go on TikTok or some ABA parenting forum that will only validate your shit behaviour. Step up, fucker. Your kid isn’t that embarrassing they’re just processing all the shit and your shit makes that harder. Calm the fuck down.
Sorry.
I’ll add to this I watched the non BBC Pride and Prejudice movie with Keira Knightly and found it profoundly boring. I have to note Lizzie seems to be rather coded, along with Darcy, her being blunt in her affect and refusing to adhere to social norms (unable and refusing implies you know better but you think it’s dumb to placate people and their insults if they happen to be of a higher station than you), Darcy being socially inept in conversation and needing prompts from Lizzie on how he should conduct himself. Either way, they wind up in love, and I didn’t realise there’s like no kissing in this movie just a lot of yearning and tension and closeness but no kissing. Okay. And the camera work was terrible. Like pointless dramatic zoom ins or even moments where it looked like the camera person was unsure if they should be zooming in or not. The location shots are great, don’t get me wrong, it’s dedicated to showing the sweeping plains and distance and majesty, but anything involving character development tended to slip into cliche, almost to the point of soap opera levels of dramatic camera work. The score was nice. It’s not incompetent it’s just made some poor choices. There were lovely sun-dappled, dewy, soft images of old-fashioned rooms and mansions, but period pieces for Americans do tend to dwell on a lot of that stuff to romanticise it all. But it was also boring, and I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and that was boring too. People assume I’d eat this up, I really don’t, I don’t hold that level of literature in high esteem. I would check out the BBC series but I’m sure I’d find this just as boring. A few reviewers were all, nobody asked for this. It got people into the book, which is never a bad thing, but it doesn’t make me a bad writer for not having read this stuff. I like to play with the language and write period stuff as a joke, I’ve tried to do fantasy in that vein, I like the way they speak, I don’t mind verbosity it’s just dull as a story. I wasn’t into high society English stories, so I won’t watch a lot of period pieces unless they are interesting. Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette is great, but admittedly I miss so much of the dialogue as it’s so muted, everyone speaks softly until they have to yell, I needed subtitles on too, I get that’s important to the scene, it’s still irritating when Netflix’s compression rates affect the sound on this shit. The mixing in some scenes was good, people talking in a room full of music sounded genuine and not ADR’d, there’s nothing wrong with most of the movie I just don’t see it being any kind of masterpiece.
