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In The Supremes Edition of our XX Gabfest this week, Hanna and Meghan
and I talk about (of course) Obama's pick for the Supreme Court, Judge
Sonia Sotomayor. Also a new study showing that women are more unhappy,
not less, 30 years after the sexual revolution, and why Terminator
Salvation has such lame female action stars... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Meghan wasn't the only person who missed Sarah Connor. Terminator Salvation lost the weekend's box office war to another sequel, Night at The Museum.
There's surely some "in this economy" fauxrgument to be made explaining
this outcome (ITE people want family friendly fare, not dark tales
about the world's end), but I think Terminator's problem is more basic, a structural flaw, a storytelling 101 screw-up.
Apocalypse narratives—movies, books, TV about the end of the
world—can be divided into two groups: stopping the apocalypse
narratives and surviving the apocalypse narratives... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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