I really liked that moment when you see how upset Annie is for being grouped. The camera doesn't even show the attack itself and linger on it, which it could have done, it's just what Sam hears about when Annie comes in upset with the others teasing her. And Annie gets angry with Sam later on for offering to walk her home, and says why don't you offer to walk Ray or Chris home, why am I being singled out.
And then there's Alex swooning at her first sign of Gene, and the hero shot of him carrying her in like the damsel in distress. Alex can obviously be more light-hearted about it all because she does come from modern times where it doesn't rule her life in the way that it did Annie. But it's interesting that the writers show Alex in her head as wanting Gene to be that kind of figure to her (presuming it is all meant to be in her head). And if she does make the decision to stay or not, that will raise the question of whether the show is inadvertently saying that women at heart prefer those unequal times where the men carry you around and want to stamp your bum. Although I have no idea where it's going, and she probably won't choose to stay I suppose. But Gene the chauvinistic does seem to be presented as more appealing to Alex than he ever was on LOM when we were seeing him through Sam's eyes
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Date: 2008-02-21 02:44 pm (UTC)And then there's Alex swooning at her first sign of Gene, and the hero shot of him carrying her in like the damsel in distress. Alex can obviously be more light-hearted about it all because she does come from modern times where it doesn't rule her life in the way that it did Annie. But it's interesting that the writers show Alex in her head as wanting Gene to be that kind of figure to her (presuming it is all meant to be in her head). And if she does make the decision to stay or not, that will raise the question of whether the show is inadvertently saying that women at heart prefer those unequal times where the men carry you around and want to stamp your bum. Although I have no idea where it's going, and she probably won't choose to stay I suppose. But Gene the chauvinistic does seem to be presented as more appealing to Alex than he ever was on LOM when we were seeing him through Sam's eyes