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Karen Arnold (Wonder Years)
Kurt Cobain
Trent Lane
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Stevie Nicks
Lana Del Rey
Roderick Heffley
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (2023)
🎬 Eleven-year-old Margaret moves to a new town and starts to contemplate everything about life, friendship and adolescence. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who offers loving support, and her grandmother, Sylvia, who's coming to terms with finding happiness in the next phase of her life. Questions of identity, one's place in the world, and what brings meaning to life soon brings them closer together than ever before.
📝A really sweet, uplifting and feel good story about growing up, societal expectations, and peer pressure. I absolutely loved it. There is no violence or hate in this movie, just a simple story about a girl with lots of questions. I loved it and I highly recommend it. It's now available on Amazon Prime.
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A Closer Walk to Thee...
As the years pass, we’ll bid goodbye to activities we once loved doing. We’ll watch our lives shift from being the providers and doers to mere observers and takers of the younger people around us. The world may then tell us we’re useless. They’ll tell us our greatest years have already passed—that humiliation awaits us.
Yet amidst the growing weakness, we know God is doing something amazing. Each day that wears on our aching body, is another day our hearts are being conformed and molded after Christ. Along with each line that surfaces on our face, and every memory that slips past our consciousness, we take one step closer to the day Christ will finally complete the good work he has begun in us (Phil. 1:6). It all seems foolish to those around us, but to us, it’s our life and our hope.
~ Brianna Lambert
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I don't get much into the actual plot in Stranger Things (which in my opinion has gotten pretty unwieldy as of late), but I enjoy it for the characters, general vibe, and historical fiction aspect (being set in the mid-80's). One of my particular interests in seeing something written to take place decades ago is in how our language and verbal interactions subtly change, and I like to believe that there are enough sufficiently old people (meaning, just a bit older than me) on the writing team to make sure that the dialog is absolutely true to the 80's setting.
But every once in a while, I feel fairly sure that someone says something that seems out of place outside of much more recent times (um, extremely mild spoilers for the new season forthcoming, I guess?). For instance, someone refers to Jane's bullies as "mouth-breathers". Was this term being used in the 80's? I feel pretty sure I never heard it until the last 2-3 years. That doesn't mean that it didn't exist as a slang term well before then, but it's funny I didn't grow up knowing it and seems more plausible that the writers carelessly put it in based on what they're familiar with currently.
Another one, that I feel more confident about, is the school guidance counselor telling Max, "It's okay to not be okay." Now this certainly would have parsed fine in 1986, but was this really a thing people said? I associate it with the epitome of mental illness awareness/acceptance online culture, knowing it mainly as a catchphrase from memes and social media posts that became popular over the last 5 or 8 years or so; I don't recall hearing it before then. I'm sure plenty of therapists in the 80's were willing to stand by and convey the spirit of "it's okay to not be okay" towards someone suffering from severe trauma, but that was probably somewhat less of a common treatment at the time than it is today, and even when therapists wanted to convey that message, I have a hard time imagining them coming up with a phrasing that catchy.
Of course, I could be wrong about these examples (can't remember any more specifically, although I'm sure there are some), and would be curious if someone else has different recollections.
I'm reminded of how I would watch Wonder Years with my parents growing up, and every now and then my mom would comment on a phrase or greeting used by one of the characters by claiming that nobody was saying that back in the late 60's / early 70's, and they really need to get some older people on that writing staff.
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What about Dulé? Do we know anything about when The Wonder Years goes back to filming? (I'm assuming Maggie and Tim don't have schedule conflicts except for the podcast, and I wouldn't mind trading a podcast hiatus with filming for Psych 4...)
Wonder Years S2 is on a similar schedule as AMLT (as in they are both moving to midseason which means they'll be back sometime early 2023), which also means he's probably going to be free until mid Semptember-ish. Unless he has any other projects going on in the meantime of course, but I am not aware of any. Same for the other cast members. (Although Corbin always seems to be filming something, that madman. Like, he has 259 acting credits on IMDb, and that's just the stuff that was actually put on there, the real number will be a lot higher.)
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My take on the whole 'the JL gets mad at Batman for having a child soldier when he gets robin' thing goes like this:
The League is having a fight with Batman saying it's wrong to bring a child, especially with no powers, into fights with supervillains and it's irresponsible to put children in danger
And Batman interrupts with "so you take him then"
And the League just kind pause, like "huh?"
"One of you can babysit Robin for a week and then we can revisit this discussion."
They're a little confused but eventually Wonder Woman agrees to take him in.
She returns with him a week later. "I apologize Batman, we have misjudged you. I adore him but please take him back now."
(she couldn't get him to stop sneaking out to fight crime without physically restraining him)
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