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I’m pretty excited for The Half Of It. It looks wholesome! I’m fine with the not HEA ??‍♀️ Somehow, as you said, with all the other releases not finishing with a HEA and still embraced by the community I feel like it may be a bit hypocrite if this one get rejected but oh well let’s see the final result first

Hey, those movies have never been embraced by ME. 😛 Although, I think a lot has to be said for those movies still focusing on the f/f relationship to the extent they did. What a story spends its time on matters. And how, lol. Not to be a defender or apologist for a movie that I have only ever said I don’t want to watch, but Portrait’s like, this cinematic piece of art, right? While this movie is deliberately subverting a romcom trope to be about a platonic friendship, and that’s not really particularly subversive when it comes to f/f media.

Again, Alice Wu can make whatever she wants and it’s not her fault if people take the impression that it’s a lesbian romcom, but I would absolutely not blame anyone for being disappointed. Although I don’t really think people especially are? The trailer was very much about Ellie and Paul and I’m only seeing positive remarks so far.

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THE HALF OF IT TRAILER IS OUT!!!! it’s so surreal seeing it because I’ve been waiting since before anyone was even cast but it’s still so exciting and looks like it’s going to be another alice wu masterpiece. while some people are probably going to be upset at the opening ending I think the way aster and ellie’s interactions play out on screen vs just reading off a page are definitely going to color it more positive

Aah, thanks for telling me! And right, right, absolutely! And honestly, of the possible endings when you see the actual dynamics at play, it’s only a little bit short of a full f/f HEA.

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Have you seen little fires everywhere? So good so far, one of the daughters is confirmed wlw

I haven’ttt, not yet, it’s just so much drama? It felt like Big Little Lies but with this strong race element? And I just haven’t had the energy for that yet .But I do have it on my list (meaning I’m downloading it), there’s just not been any point in the last few weeks where I’m like, this is the show I want to start next. I might wait till the season finishes, might not. I’ll see how I feel. 😮

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It seems that the excitement for the half of it is misplaced and will only lead to whining about the movie after it comes out, people have been selling it as this glorious lesbian romcom when it really isn’t.

Ah, well, if the ending holds, maybe, although I wouldn’t characterize it as “whining”, I think people are allowed to be upset at the difference in what’s available. When you see Netflix put out a bunch of m/f romcoms and then one f/f movie which totally reads like a romcom, if it’s not…I get it. 

But of course on the flip side, Alice Wu is entitled to make whatever she wants, she’s not solely responsible for making up for decades of underrepresentation (especially when she made one of the first good and still tragically rare f/f romcoms we DO have) and people shouldn’t go after the cast or crew or even fans who do like it or ruin it for them. It’s always a balance, right, unless something is clearly deliberate and egregious, stick with criticizing the trends more than individual creators, don’t fill the tags with hate, etc. 

And maybe it won’t be so bad, Portrait of a Lady on Fire wasn’t the happiest ending but the f/f community embraced it. And this ending should be happier than that, at least. And you know, I realize you might be talking about two different reasons people’ll be disappointed, both the ending and the fact that it’s more about a friendship between Ellie and the dude, but Saving Face wasn’t just between Viv and Wil either. In fact, it had not only Wil and her mom but the whole separate subplot of Wil’s mom and her bf. And most of us were okay with it. It depends a lot on how it’s done and Alice Wu is pretty skilled at balancing it all. 

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Idk if I like Salem yet after watching the first episode maybe a bit too military America shove in your face for a non American ??

Sorry, when it comes to answering asks I just draw random arbitrary lines in my inbox and try to catch up on everything after that and only then move back to the previous batch, and last time I drew it right after this one but since a new ep just aired, I decided to quickly answer this.

Heh, yeah, that’s very understandable. I watched the first ep and told my friend I thought the worldbuilding and details were pretty well done and then she, a European, watched and was like, uh, wtf is this. And I was like, you know, they’re treating them like how vets are treated and she was not a fan. But I mean, I also didn’t grow up in the US, nor even Pakistan, which is also pretty nationalistic, but to me the world they’re showing isn’t necessarily an endorsement of it? The inclusion of Raelle as one of the main characters with a justifiable grudge against the military and showing General Alder’s vampiric control over these women, I HOPE it’s going to deconstruct both sides, the military and the Spree. It better not be, welp, it’s a harsh life but necessary. These people were forced into this life, death or service is no choice.

But, lol, though I’m saying all this, for the moment, it’s not particularly a show I spend a ton of time or investment on. I watch it, I like it, I ship Abigail with all the women near her, and I move on till next week.

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I’ve noticed with Netflix that probably because they have some many things that are released monthly that they have been releasing trailers about two weeks before they release. An example is the Extraction trailer with Chris Hemworth came out today and the movie comes out on the 24th. So I would assume it’ll drop no later than the weekend of 17th.

Ohh, I didn’t even know about Extraction. So yeah, that seems like it’s cutting it close. 

Sorry I didn’t answer you last night when you sent this, my computer started its non-stop crashing business again, but as it happens, Netflix put up the poster just a little while ago!

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I’ve been clawing at the walls waiting for netflix to release the trailer and was hoping that cast had filmed some promo content before the pandemic. but actually I was just listening to alice on the queery podcast interview she did recently and apparently she had a couple choices between netflix and theatrical releases. which in hindsight now it turned out for the better that she went with netflix

Aw, it must have seemed an interminable wait when you were really focused on it. Now that you’ve said it, yeah, where’s the trailer? Or anything on its page except for the barest of details: https://www.netflix.com/title/81005150 

It doesn’t even have a title card yet. I wonder if it’ll come out on time? I know most of this can be done remotely but this is all so motivation-sapping.

And yeah, although it’d have been really fun to have this movie get a full theatrical release, who knows with the numbers non-Disney movies get and it’d have been postponed anyway.