May 2012 Media Thread

RobertLumley

This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. I find that reading the sequences makes me less likely to enjoy some entertainment media that is otherwise quite popular, and finding media recommended by LWers is a good way to mitigate this. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please use the comment trees for genres, which I was apparently too dumb to do.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please use the comment trees for genres, which I was apparently too dumb to do.

I would like to issue an open invitation for anyone to name any book or movie (which I have already seen/read or feel like seeing/reading) with a protagonist I cannot damn as well as the Last Psychiatrist has apparently done with Katniss*. He's making shit up because it amuses him to take this contrarian position. There's nothing insightful here, just elegant bull.

*said damning may or may not take the form of feminist criticism, depending, although this is reasonably likely to be as good an approach as any

Cazaril, Curse of Chalion

of course I don't know if you've seen it.

6ShardPhoenix14y

His point wasn't that she was (necessarily) a bad character, just that she wasn't what the media and general public wanted her to be.

11[anonymous]14y

This could be interesting. In no particular order. 1. Morgaine, The Mists of Avalon. 2. Rakka and/or Reki, Haibane Renmei. 3. San, Princess Mononoke. 4. Lessa, The Dragonriders of Pern. 5. The Rowan, The Tower and the Hive. I'd add Saber and Irisviel from Fate/Zero, but I haven't seen it yet. No doubt you'd do a bang-up job on Fate/Stay Night's Saber.

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