Let me tell you about Mae Whitman

[girlofprey]

I have been slowly rewatching Arrested Development. I just got up to the episodes with Ann Veal in them, and they keep being all 'her?', but it doesn't make any sense because (apart from her first episode) it's Mae Whitman. MAE WHITMAN. Here is what Mae Whitman looks like:


(from superiorpics.com)

Or how about this:


(from maebirdwing.twitter.com)

And she doesn't look like that in the show, obviously. But she's still Mae Whitman. So it doesn't make any sense that they would look down on her. Instead they should be saying "Very good, George Michael, well done". NATURALLY they are all blindsided by their jealousy over George Michael and the fact he would go outside the family for happiness. BUT STILL.

In Scott Pilgrim Vs The World Mae Whitman plays Roxy Richter:


(from itsasickness.com)

She is a lesbian and people sleep with her and then say it doesn't count, because they were only bi-curious. She says she's bi-furious.

I LOVE HER. Apparently she's in Parenthood now. And did the voice of one of the main characters of Avatar: The Last Airbender for a long while. And was also the voice of Tinkerbell. I should probably catch up with current TV.

I'm not crazy. I know Ann is no Maeby, or Lindsey, or Lucille. But she's still Mae Whitman. And she's still Ann. So Arrested Development is confusing me a bit at the moment. Happily, I'm finding Michael too pretty to look at again though.

I still find it hilarious that Maeby and Ann apparently did a show together where they were BFFs for years before they did Arrested Development. And I still think - as I did before I found out about that show - that Maeby and Ann should grow up and work in a detective's agency together. Maeby because she likes messing with people, and Ann because she is Christian, and she loves JUSTICE. There's just a chance the new movie/series of Arrested Development won't give me that, I've just realised.

In conclusion: I would gay for Mae Whitman. The Bluths should love Ann more.

Also, this woman is incredibly funny. I love her. And I watched most of the first episode of Coronation Street tonight, and none of the second. BECAUSE I GIVE UP, CORRIE. I GIVE UP.

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[froodle]

ROXY! Nobody should look down on Roxy, unless of course they want their BF to get F'd in the B.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It's a shame the film kind of took the opposite approach when it came to their fight.

[brinysea.livejournal.com]

I too have given up on Corrie at the moment, at least until the Tyrone storyline is over.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

It's so shit. I just...the thing is, I know they're going to want the storyline to keep going. But they have EVERY WAY to make the storyline keep going without doing this. They could have had the wedding plan go smoothly, and had Tyrone get his custody claim to Ruby. So he won something, after months of pain. And then they could have had the truth come out, and him having to explain to everyone what happened, and had people's reactions, and had some people not understand or be awful about it, and had the custody battle over Ruby, and had Kirsty not letting go, and people be not sure how far they could go to keep her away from Tyrone. They could have done so much with the aftermath, and the emotional side of things. But instead, they're just drawing it out with false domestic abuse claims - and I know it maybe happens, when abusers turn the tables, but it still seems like an odd way to go with a domestic abuse storyline - and Tyrone just having to go through even more shit. It's just like the Carla storyline - they're just so happy to torture characters for months, until it's kind of stupid apart from anything else.

I'm sorry I'm banging on. IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY. Also, it's a real shame they've made Kirsty crazy and abusive when she's one of the few women of colour on the show. I hope, as you said, she gets better and nicer acting jobs after this. Also, Fiz would probably have put her phone on silent at a wedding, even a terrible, fraught wedding. Also why is Kirsty even accusing Tyrone of abusing her? If they didn't get married he's got no claim on Ruby. Is she just punishing him for leaving her? aksdjkjsdkl.

The other thing I saw when I watched Corrie was Gail trying to seduce Lewis into sleeping with her. IT ONLY HELPED CONVINCE ME I WAS DONE WITH CORRIE FOR A WHILE.

[brinysea.livejournal.com]

I AGREE WITH ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID INCLUDING THE COMPARISON TO THE CARLA STORYLINE. It's just starting to feel sadistic really.

I have stopped watching it out of spite at the moment because ffs has everyone conveniently forgotten Tommy and Tina accused Kirsty of abuse IN PUBLIC IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, and Fiz saying 'tell them what she does to you' at the wedding. Why is everyone on Coronation street so selectively stupid when the plot calls for it. It's not great writing.

Also I don't trust them not to go down the 'domestic violence is totally worse for men than women' angle to be honest and I am quite sensitive about that because IT'S AWFUL FOR WHOEVER EXPERIENCES IT HONESTLY IT ISN'T ACTUALLY A COMPETITION. I am also pretty sensitive about false abuse claims because yes, some abusers WILL claim that they are the ones being abused instead, but with the whole attitude society has about women making false claims I don't trust it to be handled properly.

And I didn't like the whole Fiz/Tyrone affair storyline because it kind of cluttered things up and felt pretty unnecessary. Also I'm just saying he could probably do with some emotional space to recover from the whole awful relationship before he jumps straight into a new one, idk.

awjrkajwrkajwkj I AM TRYING TO ERASE THE MEMORY OF ANYTHING GAIL AND LEWIS RELATED. I JUST CAN'T WITH IT. HE USED TO DATE YOUR MUM, GAIL. YOUR MUM.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and also, Kirsty tried to KILL Tina last year, didn't she? Wasn't there a whole thing with a car crash, THAT KIRSTY CAUSED? Or does that not count because Tina didn't press charges, because Kirsty was pregnant? And no-one else EVER KNEW I guess. This is the problem I have been having with the storyline for a long while now - Kirsty is crazy. She acted very weird many times. It doesn't make any sense that everyone would just think she wouldn't ever do anything wrong.

And yeah, the Fiz and Tyrone thing is just weird. I didn't watch it, but it didn't seem like an immediate lovey-dovey relationship was exactly what was appropriate - a little bit like how they turned the Carla storyline into an affair storyline with her and Peter. Just to screw things up for her. It is the only way they can think of to turn the screw on Corrie, I guess. But the screws DON'T NEED TURNING. And Fiz could have continued to help him because they were friends, and because he didn't deserve to be abused or have his baby taken away from him. You know. Like human beings would do. Even heterosexual men and women.

And yeah, the false abuse claim thing is...a little weird. I mean, they're not exactly going "WOMEN LIE, MEN ARE GREAT", and it's not even the first time I've seen it used in an abuse storyline - in Emmerdale, Andy accused Jo of abusing him when she hit him in self-defense. But it was about two days before the truth came out about that in the show, I get the feeling Corrie will drag this out longer. And yeah, it still has the potential to be handled really badly. Just ugh.

[brinysea.livejournal.com]

I think she rear-ended Tyrone and Tina's car by mistake but it was by mistake DURING SOME UNBALANCED BEHAVIOUR like chasing them through the city, and after she'd been abusing her police powers to harass Tina. I remember getting really pissed off with Rita for going 'oh you're both as bad as each other' when clearly no, they're not - arguing and disliking someone is one thing but abusing your power to harass someone is totally different. Rita can be really stupid at times though. You'd think the factory workers would have noticed that Kirsty was seriously moody at the very least.

I REALLY SHIP CARLA AND MICHELLE BY THE WAY LADIES RUNNING BUSINESSES TOGETHER IS MY NEW KINK

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I guess they will put her moodiness down to her having been abused? If they even bother to remember it at all. What really pissed me off about her stint at the factory was the way Rob treated her. I mean, I didn't watch all of it, but from what I did see it seemed like he tried to be charming with the rest of the women, and was really nice to them. But with Kirsty he was shouting at her for being a few minutes late, and threatening to fire her over to taking a break to get a glass of water. And it just seemed so cheap, like he was literally only doing it because the writers needed to give Kirsty some stress she could take out on Tyrone. Or maybe Rob turned out to be, or will turn out to be, super racist. Who knows?

I always shipped Carla with Maria, and then Liam/Carla/Maria/Tony/Roy in a weird big mess when the Tony storyline went down. But Carla barely ever speaks to Maria anymore, and does seem to love and respect Michelle a lot more.