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Comment on Moving by paul walter

paul walter — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:56:23 +0000

Yes, Your site certainly has been cattywumpus, my computer security wouldn’t let me visit the cast iron balcony with a view, because of all the infective germs it reckoned had messed it up.
It’s a shame they couldn’t have let it be, plenty of room for an extra viewpoint, particularly a well thought out one on many issues.
If they don’t agree with you they ought to send a post in saying why and then there can be a conversation.
But if you are so transgressive as to provoke a nasty bug attack, I’d be keeping my eyes open for your new site, on the basis that there might be some thing of interest; if some are so afraid of it they have to shut it down- I want to know what is this thing that you know, that must so frighten them.
Best of luck.

Comment on At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint by Helen

Helen — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:45:11 +0000

10 years since Seachange? Blimey!

Comment on At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint by Fourty First Down Under Feminist Carnival | A Touch of the Crazy

Fourty First Down Under Feminist Carnival | A Touch of the Crazy — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:33:10 +0000

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Comment on At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint by paul walter

paul walter — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:43:08 +0000

Avoided it without much trouble.
No, not politicised sitcom on Auntie, please.
I’d imagine most of this readership would remember the ABC’s golden years and look at the current wreck sadly.
And what devastation the last decade has wrought- ten years ago we had Sigrid Thornton defending her bayside folk against developers, the beginnings of Glasshouse and CNNNN, as well as docos, lots of biting Brit satire and uncompromising drama on aspects of the human condition; good current affairs and no ads.
Then came Alston, Shier, Conroy and Scott and a period of sustained dumbing down induced by social and poleconomic conservatives incapable of holding up an argument through discourse therefore smashing the discursive mechanism.
Never mind, if you don’t know, or want to know, about Goldman Sachs, Koch Bros and Murdoch, they won’t trouble you.
Better you don’t know anyway- more difficult for them and more difficult for you, were you to know the truth.

Comment on At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint by Buncha

Buncha — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:14:21 +0000

Very poor viewing, almost bereft of humor. It.looked like a throwback to the 50′s when film makers were learning the game and writing talent was non-existent. Shame on the ABC for throwing money away with this rubbish. No comparison to quality commercial series like “Packed to the Rafters”.

Comment on At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint by tigtog

tigtog — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:52:07 +0000

One thing I do like – Craig McLachlan as the hunky gardener in the opening credits and so far we simply haven’t seen him again.

That’s cameo class, that is. Why can’t the rest of it be as elegant as that?

Comment on At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint by another outspoken female

another outspoken female — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 05:13:05 +0000

I found it unwatchable. One joke that was never funny to begin with. Hit delete by the halfway point. What a wasted opportunity.

Comment on At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint by Jo Tamar

Jo Tamar — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:21:41 +0000

I didn’t watch it – same reasons as mim.

I also find it frustrating that this is how all het relationships are satirised (at least, all I can think of – I don’t watch a great deal of tv so I don’t claim to be an expert).

As in: even if the members of the het couple occupy “traditional” roles vis-a-vis “breadwinner” and “homemaker”, the satire involves the woman being the one truly in control, while the man is just a poor weakling who can’t stand up for himself (or look after himself) and needs to escape to the pub for a beer with his mates (and then every now and then, “taking control” and “saving the day”). Which – grrrr, for all the usual reasons.

So, ABC and Amanda Bishop & co, you missed the chance to be truly groundbreaking by, for example, satirising the relationship while still presenting Gillard and Mathieson as equal partners.

Comment on At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint by caffeineadddict

caffeineadddict — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:43:55 +0000

Pretty much every time a cheap allusion was made to her sex life in the episode I felt sick (and over the span of 30 minutes, there were a SHITLOAD of them).

The ‘satire’ label is obviously BS- the show is yet another misogynistic ‘test’ being thrown at JG: if she doesn’t take it like an Aussie trooper and reacts badly to it, many will label her as a humourless bitch- a depiction which (obviously) many would like to perpetuate to (further) alienate her from the voting public. So the thing that distresses me is that effectively they can put whatever they want into the show; JG is effectively gagged from criticising it, which makes the sexism even more entrenched.

From the two or three reviews I’ve read, the commments tend to take the following paths: Lib supporters thrilled with the show because of the way it humiliates juLIAR and exposes what an ‘emasculating’ cow she is; people who think nobody can take a joke anymore; people who completely deny any singling out of JG because she’s a woman and say that all pollies are open to this type of personal ‘exposure’ (apparently this is important for a health democracy, donchyaknow).

Comment on At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint by mimbles

mimbles — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:15:07 +0000

I didn’t watch it because I was pretty sure this would be how it was. I think I feel slightly ill.