snowball-15
Joined May 2000
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These days it is painful to watch a smart, charming, and cute character played by Garofalo being so incredibly insecure that she would resort to asking a model friend to impersonate her. It was used for laughs back in 1996. The character of Thurman was also written badly, making her really stupid, also for laughs. And those traits were shown as if these were women's fault and nothing else when there is a whole culture that makes women feel unattractive and lack confidence. And in the end, they are made to apologize for it. All of it is presented in the movie as normal, if slightly amusing. This is a movie that better be forgotten because women and girls deserve to be treated better by society instead of instilling insecurities.
I see here only one not glowing review and this is why I would like to chime in. While the episode does provide a logical conclusion to the series, it is barely watchable. It is trying to milk you for tears and nothing of interest happens. Granted, in real life a similar story would have likely had an ending like that, this is not a real life. This is science fiction, which should shed an original light on a human nature while inspiring us and making us say "wow". And for 5 years it did. However, only now, after watching the Babylon-5 finale, I do fully appreciate what SG-1 writers did with their finale "Unending". While individual stories and arcs were not always as great as some in Babylon's, SG-1 finale was far superior and incomparably more watchable. Adventures still happened, and they ended going towards another day of work - possibly another adventure, with hope and with a message that life goes on and there are still things to do and future to make. Babylon people just got sad and got on with their lives. Their lives after the series were not by all means boring, but the ending dwelled on the sad and made me only yawn. Don't get me wrong, I am not against sadness, I am for better writing about the sad things. This was a huge disappointment, after 5 brilliant seasons - just a boring blip trying to manipulate you into squeezing a tear.
