tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post8741296921496897897..comments2024-03-12T16:53:52.795-04:00Comments on Crypto-Catholic Libertine: Meta-meta: One of them cannot be rightJules Aiméhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08262535377454858987noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post-79630970634916846322012-05-29T20:40:07.473-04:002012-05-29T20:40:07.473-04:00For some reason this thing isn't letting me ed...For some reason this thing isn't letting me edit my own comments. Anyway, the first sentence should read "... we are also implicated".Jules Aiméhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08262535377454858987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post-58320187956929141332012-05-29T20:36:13.306-04:002012-05-29T20:36:13.306-04:00I agree about Sepinwall.
The other thing, and I m...I agree about Sepinwall.<br /><br />The other thing, and I may revisit this in a post later is that we are also implicit in it. That stood out most clearly in the scene in the boardroom when Megan's friend entertained the creative team by crawling on the desk. There is a shot where it is framed so we can see her black panties up her skirt but none of the characters in the scene could have seen what we see. So, do we watch that and feel superior to them because they approve of the exploitation of women' bodies for commercial purposes while the camera is doing the same for us?<br /><br />As to meta-meta, I did that mostly because it was cute. Hastily justifying myself in retrospect, Id say that I was thinking of the show as the text, the commentary as meta-text and my commentary on the commentary as meta-meta text. Maybe that doesn't really work but ...Jules Aiméhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08262535377454858987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post-55526858385712122902012-05-29T19:44:10.254-04:002012-05-29T19:44:10.254-04:00Out of the two first commentators, Sepinwall seems...Out of the two first commentators, Sepinwall seems obviously correct. The most uncomfortable, and almost too obvious (from a writing point of view), example of what he's talking about was when the director and the theater people had Megan turn around before she even got a chance to speak. It's interesting that she/the writers mention that the director is gay: it seems to make the economic or exploitative side of things even stronger.<br /><br />BTW, why is this meta-meta? If you're commenting on commentators, isn't it just regular old meta?Gaiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11691006770731341338noreply@blogger.com