Fishballs, Group, Supergirl

 Thursday I worked on Agnes, so when I woke on Friday I finished her off. Ended the night by starting “Pretty Things” on Netflix. Go Alasdair Gray!

Like I said, the writing mania got me early in the morning. Problem is I needed to get in touch with the surgeon, and I missed out on that. Monday. It will have to be done on Monday.

The phone is still out.

I ate at The Dumpling House, as I usually do. This time I had fishball & rice noodle soup. Wonderful! 

I did group. Notes will be published over the weekend.

Then I went to see Supergirl.

Supergirl was much better than expected. I am not sure I am being original here, but it brought to mind Mad Max Fury Road. What is going to piss off the fanboys is that it is not a typical superhero movie with all the spectacle and spandex of a WWE fight. It is a coming of age story wrapped in a superhero story. It is very low key compared to what else is out there for superhero movies. Yes, there are some strange shots. I really do not know Milly Alcock's work, but she pulled off a character I never liked. Yeah, I was a terrible sexist when I was young and thought Supergirl was kind of stupid and for girls. It is not something you need to rush to see - that would've been Death of Robin Hood - but is better than the reviews. 

Additionally. Gunn has added a character I also hated as a kid and made the damn thing work: Krypto. Yes, I thought Krypto was stupid. Probably not having a cape and having awful behavior helps.

One last thing, there was a preview for Klara and the Sun. I did not know Natasha Lyonne is in it. I am in love with her. Badly. At one point in Supergirl I got thinking about what it would've been like with Natasha as Supergirl, 20 years ago, a cigarette dangling from her lip….

Anyway, I just got home. It may be a short night, this was supposed to be a vacation day, but I started revising "After Making Landfall”.

I listened to a couple of video reviews of Supergirl while I did the revising.

 

 

The comic book boys can't (won't?) judge a movie as a movie. Not that the movie critics were all that favorable, looking for a superhero movie and all that attendant spectacle. When it is more and less than a superhero movie. Others went on about whether it was a good feminist movie. I am in no position to say anything about that since the movie never spouted any manifesto, and the original writer who was a woman would probably have put one in if she thought it necessary. This morning while waiting for the bus to take me to Payless, I thought if there is a feminist message in the move then it fits the Annie Lennox model.

What I found to be the most accurate take on the movie I saw: Supergirl review – sprightly and sparkling superhero yarn without the usual baffling DC backstory ( Movies | The Guardian)

I have chipped away at the emails but not enough. I need to get back to my story, so this is all you get for now.

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