Still Nameless Feature: There's Probably Hope Somewhere

[helloladies]

At the end of every week, we gather at Lady Business HQ to share media thoughts and chat about the recent happenings in our tiny spheres of human experience. Feel free to join in, but note our comment policy if you're new! :D

As always, puns are welcome.

This week was so terrible that there are no words for it. Have a blanket fort.



We've discussed names like Chaturday, Business Casual, The Water Trough, and Ponies Express. Clearly we can use some help and would appreciate your suggestions (feel free to vote in the comments, too)!

Poll #17563 Potential Feature Names

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What should we call this adventure?

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Re: That gif is the greatest of all time

[justira]

Talk to me about Seveneves! You're far enough in to have thoughts besides "wow that's a lot of science". How did it handle gender? Sexuality? How was the Neil deGrasse Tyson stand-in? Tell me things!

I've seen the first two episodes of Orphan Black like three times in an effort to watch the series from the beginning, and I keep not going further. It's not that I don't like it — I do — it's just that it's... intense? It takes a lot of brains and emotional energy to watch for me, so I have to be in the right mood. Same reason I have yet to finish Jessica Jones.

Re: That gif is the greatest of all time

[owlmoose]

I'm actually further along than I thought, possibly I was expecting the balance of story pre- and post-time skip to be quite different. So I'm closeish to done, about 150 pages to go.

I come into this book with baggage, because Stephenson has had issues with gender in past books -- his women tend to be absent, entirely defined by their relationships with men, or suffer from Heinlein Syndrome (beautiful, brilliant, accomplished, and no depth whatsoever). I detected a whiff of Heinlein Sydrome at first, but it evened out later, especially as more characters were introduced, so overall I think he's done fairly well. I like that the women tend to have strong voices and different types of relationships with each other.

I enjoyed Doob as an expy of Neil DeGrasse Tyson, obvious as it was. :) I'm still trying to decide if Sean Probst was also supposed to be someone specific. I see many similarities to Ilon Musk, but I don't think of him as paranoid about security.

I'm also still trying to decide if the book is pessimistic or optimistic about human nature, and whether I agree with what it's trying to say either way.

Re. Orphan Black: it is definitely an intense show, not always easy to watch. Worth it, in my opinion, but I can understand wanting to be in the mood for it.