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Last night Mary Beth and I watched the latest episode of The Good Place and then we watched Hale County This Morning, This Evening. She saw it at Indie Memphis last year, I think, but I hadn't. It was a real good movie. Anyway, now it's today and I've been awake for a bit.
I remembered the couple things I forgot to mention in my last post. The first was how the last episode of Bluff City Law kinda pissed me off a bit. The whole trope of can't have a main character atheist (or agnostic or whatever she is) without someone giving a little speech about faith that's full of quaint nonsense but gets treated as some sort of profundity (some half-assed folksy analogy or whatever) and then said main character, if not completely converting in a huge way, relents in some fashion like goes to church or prays or does some such similar shit. Network television just can't let an atheist be an atheist and have it be alright. I mean, their religious friends and family can stay religious and that's okay and they can stay atheist and that's just fucking peachy. You don't have to run everyone through the goddamned spiritual ringer. For all the show's attempts at portraying a viewpoint that's slightly progressive, they can fuck off royally for this one. Well, I ranted a little bit more than I'd intended. The other thing is much less ranty. Katie, who again bought my car the other day, used to have a 2001 Honda Accord back in the day so it was a nostalgic revisit for her. Was I going somewhere with that? Probably not, just a fun and interesting fact to note!
I remembered the couple things I forgot to mention in my last post. The first was how the last episode of Bluff City Law kinda pissed me off a bit. The whole trope of can't have a main character atheist (or agnostic or whatever she is) without someone giving a little speech about faith that's full of quaint nonsense but gets treated as some sort of profundity (some half-assed folksy analogy or whatever) and then said main character, if not completely converting in a huge way, relents in some fashion like goes to church or prays or does some such similar shit. Network television just can't let an atheist be an atheist and have it be alright. I mean, their religious friends and family can stay religious and that's okay and they can stay atheist and that's just fucking peachy. You don't have to run everyone through the goddamned spiritual ringer. For all the show's attempts at portraying a viewpoint that's slightly progressive, they can fuck off royally for this one. Well, I ranted a little bit more than I'd intended. The other thing is much less ranty. Katie, who again bought my car the other day, used to have a 2001 Honda Accord back in the day so it was a nostalgic revisit for her. Was I going somewhere with that? Probably not, just a fun and interesting fact to note!
