Jonah Hauer-King and Michael Gambon behind the scenes of Little Women (2017)

After finishing She-Ra 2018 I'm trying to work on my unified theory for why CatDora bothers me as the endgame ship. Cause as CEO of mentally ill cartoon women, there's something about it that feels a disservice to Catra's psychology and trauma. She is genuinely such an interesting character to watch because they so clearly lay out the abusive dynamic that informs her entire character, but by the kiss, I feel like they lost steam with it.

The biggest thing to me is the simple fact that Adora is basically a trigger for her. Adora's personality as someone who is constantly self-sacrificing and forgiving is something Catra has a deep hatred for because she believes she is worthless and unforgivable, and when people try to help her she feels they're using her to look better while she fails to get better.

The fact that ADORA herself was the one in that original dynamic that traumatized the hell out of her makes me uncomfortable with how Catra eventually just... stops getting set off by things. I just can't imagine how what happened leading up to their kiss would desensitize Catra enough to that trauma response that she'd be in love with her. Like in that same season she was fucking death gripping the table at hearing Adora's name, and in seasons earlier she straight up like dissociated when people brought up her heroics. Not only the unearned healing, but the "I've loved you all along" feels a bit patronizing to her past. That all her emotionality was complicated romantic feelings, and not... having really nasty childhood trauma.

I didn't know I still have this poster of "World Masterpiece Theater" shows released in the 80s. It's a good looking poster and still looks fine. This was probably released around 1987 at the height of airing "Little Women" anime.

o i wanted to make a post that im honestly not smart enough to actually sit down and think out but i like the way meryls trauma doesnt completely woobify her character but does still affect her, it just feels nice to see a female charcater not be completely reduced to a wet soggy mess bc of trauma but also not to (very unrealistically) just Get Over It i think trigun has a nice balance and its refreshing

one thing i liked about the barbie movie is that it was so obvious that ryan gosling not only put his whole pussy into it but he also had a lot of fun playing ken lol

idc what y'all say, taylor wrote the prophecy for jo march

I just found out there’s a 2017 version of little women and the maya hawke actually starred in it as jo WHAT???

To me, that’s cinema:

★   Little Women (2019), dir. Greta Gerwig

“Women. They have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition. And they’ve got talent as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it ... But I’m so lonely.”

EP. 12 Little Women THE GRAND FINALE.

Okaay, first of all no kiss? I needed a kiss between Do il and In joo, but maaaan, we didn't even get a hug! I feel betrayed! lol Anyway... Everything else was perfect, they really tried to close all the main story lines and give us as many answers as possible in this last episode, all that without making it feel rushed, it felt like a slow and kind of sad goodbye. Loved In kyung accepting her love for Jong ho and going to the US with him to keep studying. This boy was really such a selfless character, he got into all that chaos just because he loves In kyung, and he had to deal with so much lol . Being honest, he was innocent from the start, but it's curious that so many people found him so suspicious when he was doing absolute nothing besides being close to In kyung 24/7 lol, but thinking about it, it was probably because he was the most simple written character in the whole story, he got almost no background, he was there from the start, but we get to know so little about him, so that leaves an open space to fill with doubts, because "he could be anything", it gets suspicious just because we know so much about the other characters, I even think the writer did it on purpose just to give the audience another reason to be on the edge, "trust no one... just in case" 🤣 Anyway, I loooved his relationship with In kyung and how he really was there for here 24/7 without expecting anything in return.

Also In Hye got her happy ending running away with her bestie, and she even got to give back all that her sisters "gave" to her, so she wouldn't feel like a burden anymore. They all got the money just because In hye got to be Hyo rin best friend, so glad that that girl is happy with In hye and didn't have to deal with her family in the last episodes, she had enough trauma already.

I'm also glad we got to listen to that last In joo speech about feeling at home and be able to start a new life, she went through so much during this story. BUT THEN AGAIN they should have show us Do il going back to In joo, just for a second in a last scene, in a "few years later" moment, they seeing each other from far away or something 🤣 It's just that they had such a great chemistry, that couple was just so nice to see. I really hope to see them work together in another drama, just give me a romcom with them 🤣

The only thing that I feel like wasn't addresed here and maybe it should have been, is In kyung having all that inheritance from her Great aunt, that also would have a lot of debt in the future, but that's because they didn't know that great aunt really knew how to invest her money, like she told In kyung that in a few years all that she did or bought will have rewards because she really knew what she was doing. Anyway, so I think In Kyung will get more money in the future thanks to that lol. I just wanted to address that because I thiink it wasn't addressed again, and it would have been nice seeing In kyung get some notification of getting a lot of money and thinking about her great aunt, just like In joo got her apartment.

ANYWAY. Great ending, it didn't disappoint me at all. I give this kdrama 10/10, since everything was perfect, the whole cast, the cinematography, the plot, everything was amazing from start to finish, it got all my attention since the first episode and it only got better with each episode. This is going to be in my top 5 of kdramas of all time for sure.

I don't want to let life go. I can only try to be willing.

Beth, from PBS Masterpiece’s Little Women

Angela Lansbury as Aunt March in Little Women (2017)

Little Women, What a nice show to know.

If you didn't know what is this? It is called Tales of Little Women, or Little Women for short. It is the Thirteenth entry of the World Masterpiece Theater spanning 48 episodes. It aired in the US on HBO, and then Smile and even the Philippines on DZOZ TV, It had a wide popularity throughout Europe, Israel, Iran, Arab World countries and Latin America.

"Little Women" (Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari) 1987 anime version produced by Nippon Animation.

period dramas only work when the actor playing male character is a little bit ugly idk

Which film adaptation of Little Women is your favorite and why? How do you feel about the musical version?

ah, anon! A question for the ages. It's 1994's for me.

That wasn't always my answer - for most my life, it would have been 1949. That was the first version of the story I encountered, on VHS at my grandmother's house. I got to know the sisterhood of Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy through those cozy, Technicolor hues with a surge of admiration and kinship for June Allyson's Jo, while also relating hard to the timidity of Margaret O'Brien's Beth. Elizabeth Taylor as Amy still cracks me up and Janet Leigh is a wonderful Meg. It's the most overlooked of the theatrical film adaptations, in large part I'm sure because it hews very closely to the 1933 OG. (I don't care for that one by comparison; Katharine Hepburn is a super cool person and all but I don't like her in the role of Jo and yet she is the only single actor in the cast with an ounce of charisma. imo. I did love seeing her in good drag tho) (People also don't like some of the liberties taken in 1949, ie switching Amy's and Beth's ages - a complaint I totally understand, but again given that it was my introduction to the story I had no idea this was "wrong")

I saw the '94 version a couple of times in high school and was so devoted to my childhood favorite that it took me a while to warm up to it. But by my twenties, it had become a favorite and it is now a go-to comfort movie for me. It has slightly edged out '49 as my personal favorite and in terms of recommending an adaptation to people I think it's the best one to go to. Part of that is yes nostalgia for '90s period pieces (Thomas Newman's score is unmatched in its comforting coziness) - but also its the way its deep, abiding love for the characters and text is manifested with warmth. The novel is warm, and to me, that feeling is somewhat lost in Gerwig's admirable take.

There is a lot I truly love about the 2019 version - chief among them is righting the one wrong of '94 and giving full dimension back to Amy. It's all there in Alcott's text and tries to be there in Armstrong's. The problem in '94 is not only that young Amy gets so much more screentime than adult Amy, but that Kirsten Dunst is SO memorably fantastic in the part and Samantha Mathis just leaves no impression. I see the vision, like, for the porcelain doll Amy but in the novel the still contained that same fire and drive as Jo. Gerwig and Florence Pugh bring that back into light in the most compelling, beautiful way. She manages what no other film adaptation had done before, which was to set up Amy and Laurie in a believable fashion. She does so much that is so wonderful and I am grateful her film has introduced the story to so many. It's such a beautiful one. (I have a few casting problems with '19; my biggest disappointment on a personal level is that I never felt warmed to Beth the way I have in other versions.)

I must admit that despite my love for Sutton Foster, I don't remember loving the Broadway version. I do remember liking the song "Some Things Are Meant to Be," and should listen to it again. I am however grateful for its existence because it was my Broadway-loving gf's introduction to "Little Women" and yay for that!!

tl;dr: it's 1994 for me, but I love something about every version!

gotta be honest goncharov seems like the kind of movie my family would watch together at thanksgiving and drive a rift between the men and the women in the family because my mom and I don’t like subtle movies about men doing crime and my dad and brothers find this offensive