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Olive Byrne met Marston in 1925, when she was a senior at Tufts; he was her psychology professor. Marston was already married, to a lawyer named Elizabeth Holloway. When Marston and Byrne fell in love, he gave Holloway a choice: either Byrne could live with them, or he would leave her. Byrne moved in. Between 1928 and 1933, each woman bore two children; they lived together as a family. Holloway went to work; Byrne stayed home and raised the children. They told census-takers and anyone else who asked that Byrne was Marston's widowed sister-in-law. "Tolerant people are the happiest," Marston wrote in a magazine essay in 1939, so "why not get rid of costly prejudices that hold you back?" He listed the "Six Most Common Types of Prejudice." Eliminating prejudice number six—"Prejudice against unconventional people and non-conformists"—meant the most to him. Byrne's sons didn't find out that Marston was their father until 1963—when Holloway finally admitted it—and only after she extracted a promise that no one would raise the subject ever again.
The First Born imprisoned Wonder Woman in what remained of Olympus and ordered his forces to attack Themyscira. As they watched the confrontation, the First Born offered her a place in his goals of conquest, but she steadfastly refused, causing him to thrust a spike into her side.[46] As Diana lied mortally wounded, Eris dragged her to Themyscira, for she wanted Diana to see her home destroyed and humiliate her. Recovering her strength, Wonder Woman punched Eris down and took Zola and Zeke to Olympus. Her plan was to place Zeke on the throne, so that he could be the new king of Olympus and end the bloodshed, but before she could, Poseidon revealed his presence.[47]
In order to defeat them, Superman and Wonder Woman collected the magic armor created by Hephaestus and intercepted Zod and Faora while they were building a portal to the Phantom Zone. At first, they defeated Zod and Faora by detonating their armor at point-blank range, but Zod and Faora were revitalized by a beam of sunlight sent by Apollo, which gave the criminals enough strength to beat Superman and Wonder Woman and trap them in an abandoned nuclear reactor. As a last-ditch effort to stop their enemies, Superman and Wonder Woman caused a nuclear explosion, but not before Clark told Diana that he loved her. The explosion trapped Zod and Faora back in the Phantom Zone, and Superman shielded Wonder Woman with his cape.[62] The two heroes barely survived the explosion and Superman took Diana to Hessia, who used a healing crystal to save her.[63]
The "Lies" story arc runs parallel with and explores Diana's search. No longer able to get into Mount Olympus, Diana tracks down Barbara Ann Minerva, the Cheetah, to get help.[160][161] Cheetah agrees to help in exchange for Diana aiding her in killing the god Urzkartaga and ending Minerva's curse. The pair battle their way through Urzkartaga's minions, the Bouda, and defeat Andres Cadulo, a worshiper of Urzkartaga that planned to sacrifice Steve Trevor to the plant god. Once reverted to her human form, Minerva agreed to help Wonder Woman find her way back to Paradise Island. During this time, Wonder Woman reconnects with Steve. Minerva eventually realizes Paradise Island is an embodiment of emotion instead of a physical place, so Wonder Woman and Steve head out to find the island. They succeed and Wonder Woman is greeted by her mother and sisters, though Steve senses something is wrong. Wonder Woman comes to realize nothing is as she remembers and, upon using the Lasso of Truth, discovers everything she thought she knew was a lie: she never really returned to Themyscira after departing with Steve years earlier. The revelation shatters Diana's mind and she is left nearly insane. Veronica Cale, a businesswoman who has been desiring to find Themyscira and the leader of Godwatch, sends a military group called Poison after her, but Diana's state has left her vulnerable and oblivious to the danger she and Steve are in. Steve wards them off long enough for them to be rescued, and reluctantly places Diana in a mental hospital so she can get help. While there she comes to grasp the reality she thought she knew was false, eventually coming out of her stupor and able to rejoin the others in tracking down Veronica Cale, who is trying to find Themyscira.
"Noted Psychologist Revealed as Author of Best-Selling 'Wonder Woman,'" read the astonishing headline. In the summer of 1942, a press release from the New York offices of All-American Comics turned up at newspapers, magazines and radio stations all over the United States. The identity of Wonder Woman's creator had been "at first kept secret," it said, but the time had come to make a shocking announcement: "the author of 'Wonder Woman' is Dr. William Moulton Marston, internationally famous psychologist." The truth about Wonder Woman had come out at last.
In the 1910s, Peter was a staff artist at the magazine Judge, where he contributed to its suffrage page called "The Modern Woman," which ran from 1912 to 1917. More regularly, the art on that page was drawn by another staff artist, a woman named Lou Rogers. Rogers' suffrage and feminist cartoons very often featured an allegorical woman chained or roped, breaking her bonds. Sanger hired Rogers as art director for the Birth Control Review, a magazine she started in 1917. In 1920, in a book called Woman and the New Race, Sanger argued that woman "had chained herself to her place in society and the family through the maternal functions of her nature, and only chains thus strong could have bound her to her lot as a brood animal." In 1923, an illustration commissioned by Rogers for the cover of Birth Control Review pictured a weakened and desperate woman, fallen to her knees and chained at the ankle to a ball that reads, "UNWANTED BABIES." A chained woman inspired the title of Sanger's 1928 book, Motherhood in Bondage, a compilation of some of the thousands of letters she had received from women begging her for information about birth control; she described the letters as "the confessions of enslaved mothers."
In the "Watchmen" sequel "Doomsday Clock," Doctor Poison attended the meeting established by the Riddler and mentioned a rumor that Wonder Woman was forcefully dragged back to Themyscira by her fellow Amazons.[162] Wonder Woman comes out of hiding to address the United Nations, hoping to defuse the metahuman arms race. However, the summit is interrupted by Black Adam, the Creeper, and Giganta, who take advantage of the absence of most of Earth's superheroes to attack the UN at the time when the superheroes were confronting Doctor Manhattan on Mars.[163]
Orion tells Diana that he was sent to earth to fight a threat, and surprised that the possible threat he faces is a mere child. They find out that Zola's baby is being kept with Hermes, who in turn is hiding in Demeter's realm. Going back to the hotel to regroup, they find Zola and Hera missing. Finally finding them in a bar, Diana comes face to face with War, her old master.
Zeus has made a woman called Zola pregnant. Hera, due to this, is furious. She sets out to kill Zola, but Hermes finds her first, only to find out that Zola does not want to come with Hermes. Zola opens the door, and an arrow is shot at her direction; Hermes pushes her away in time, and gives her a key, as assassins sent by Hera and it teleports to Wonder Woman's apartment, because Hermes enlisted Wonder Woman to protect Zola. Zola gives Wonder Woman the key, and it teleports both Wonder Woman and Zola back to Zola's house. After Zola finds out that she is pregnant with Zeus, it gets revealed that one of Zeus' children is going to take his place, by Zeus' own will. Wonder Woman takes Zola, along with Hermes, to Themiscyra where Diana explains to her Mother, Queen Hippolyta, why she took with herself Zola and Hermes to Themiscyra. Alongside all of this, Hippolyta tells Diana about her true origins; that her real father is Zeus. Diana's reaction to this isn't very well, so she decides to abandon Themiscyra. Hera is aware of the fact that Wonder Woman is Zeus' daughter, and she arrives to Themiscyra, furiously. Wonder Woman realized she did a mistake by leaving her home, so she went back to Themiscyra where she sees that everyone has been turned into snakes by Hera, except for Hippolyta, she was turned into stone. Apollo arrives in a bar searching for War (Ares), and explains to him that Zeus doesn't even exist from what he's sources says. Apollo takes this as his chance to become the king of Olympus and the Gods.
The Gods, led by Athena, create the Amazons in Greece to realize their ideals and bring humans into following them. The leader of the Amazons, Hippolyta feels a yearning for a child). She makes a clay form of a child and prays to the Gods. Hearing this the Gods give the clay form, transforming it into a live child blessed with Gaea's gift, life. The Gods grant her various abilities and she grows up as Diana of Themyscira.
Later, Etta was released from hospital and Diana accompanied her to her home. She was shot by a sniper, but deflected the bullet and interrogated the attacker, who called herself Mayfly. She revealed that she had attempted to assassinate Wonder Woman in return for a bounty that had been placed on her.[86] Shortly afterwards, Diana was attacked by five more assassins: Cat Eye, Cheshire, Abolith, Baundo and Plastique, the latter of whom revealed that she had planted the bomb at the wedding. Wonder Woman was able to defeat them all with the help of Etta, and they returned to an A.R.G.U.S. facility. There, Sasha Bordeaux informed her that another scientist, Hamilton Revere, had heard of Dr. Crawford's attempts to harvest Diana's DNA, and had apparently hypothesized that it could be used for the treatment of numerous diseases. Wonder Woman was intrigued and decided to seek out Revere of her own accord and hear out his plans.[87] When she arrived, Revere informed her that in truth, he sought to use her DNA to create an army of super-soldiers. He had also used samples of Diana's blood to grant some of his goons super strength, who attacked her. Etta and Steve Trevor arrived to assist Wonder Woman, and together they bound the attackers in the Lasso of Truth, which once again removed the lie within their bodies. Revere was arrested, and Diana returned home with Steve and Etta.[88]
Wonder Woman is trained in the a variety of martial arts, making her a master of unarmed and armed combat (even proving adept with pistols). Before Flashpoint Batman considered Diana the best melee fighter on the planet, even putting her ahead of Superman, due to the combination of her power and the depth of her training. Even when depowered, she is on par with some of the best hand-to-hand combatants in the DC Universe.
The storyline "The Circle" was focused on the revelation of a failed assassination attempt on Diana when she was a baby, by four rogue Amazons.[120] These Amazons – Myrto, Charis, Philomela and Alkyone, collectively referred to as The Circle – were Hippolyta's personal guards and were extremely loyal and devoted to her.[121] However, when Hippolyta decided to raise a daughter, The Circle was horrified and considered the baby ill-fate, one who would ruin their entire race.[122] Thus, after Diana was sculpted out of clay and brought to life, The Circle decided to assassinate the baby. Their attempt was foiled however, and the four Amazons were imprisoned.[123] After years, the Circle escaped their prisons with the help of Captain Nazi, and decided to accomplish their previously failed mission and kill Diana. Diana defeated Myrto, Charis, Philomela and then approached Alkyone, who runs off and succumbs to her death by falling into the ocean. The other three Amazons return to their prisons.[123][124]
In the wake of the 1954 hearings, DC Comics removed Bender from its editorial advisory board, and the Comics Magazine Association of America adopted a new code. Under its terms, comic books could contain nothing cruel: "All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted." There could be nothing kinky: "Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Violent love scenes as well as sexual abnormalities are unacceptable." And there could be nothing unconventional: "The treatment of love-romance stories shall emphasize the value of the home and the sanctity of marriage."
One of the events that led to Infinite Crisis was of Wonder Woman killing the villain Maxwell Lord in Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #219.[113] Maxwell Lord was mind-controlling Superman, who as a result was near to killing Batman. Wonder Woman tried to stop Superman, Lord (who was unable to mind control her) made Superman see her as his enemy Doomsday trying to kill Lois Lane. Superman then attacked Wonder Woman, and a vicious battle ensued. Buying herself time by slicing Superman's throat with her tiara, Wonder Woman caught Lord in her Lasso of Truth and demanded to know how to stop his control over Superman. As the lasso forced the wearer to speak only the truth, Lord told her that the only way to stop him was to kill him. Left with no choice, Wonder Woman snapped Lord's neck and ended his control over Superman.[113] Unknown to her, the entire scene was broadcast live around every channel in the world by Brother Eye. The viewers were not aware of the entire situation, and saw only Wonder Woman murdering a Justice League associate. Wonder Woman's actions put her at odds with Batman and Superman, as they saw Wonder Woman as a cold-blooded killer, despite the fact that she saved their lives.[114]
After defeating Giganta in battle, Wonder Woman was approached by a lawyer who informed her that she had inherited the estate of Hercules, who had been killed.[89] Shortly thereafter, she was told by A.R.G.U.S. that Hercules' body came from an area containing traces of energy unique to Apokolips. Diana visited Hercules' home and found a letter addressed to her, informing her of the location of her twin brother, Jason. She found him in Greece,[90] and the two seemingly began to bond, only for Jason to turn against Diana after the arrival of Grail, who he had secretly allied himself with.[91] Grail had begun killing children of the earthly gods in order to use their divine power to restore her father Darkseid to adulthood, as he had been turned into a baby at the end of the Darkseid War. Jason allied himself with her in order to exact revenge on Wonder Woman, as he resented her for not seeking him out after she learned of his existence some time ago and was envious of her. However, as Darkseid was about to drain Diana's life force, Jason regretted his actions and joined Wonder Woman in battle against Grail and Darkseid. Then, Hercules' lawyer revealed his true identity as the King of the Gods himself, Zeus.[92] Zeus fought Darkseid while Wonder Woman took on his daughter, Grail. Ultimately, Zeus was defeated and his life force was drained by Darkseid, restoring the Apokoliptian to his full adult form. The Justice League arrived, forcing Darkseid and Grail to retreat through a Boom Tube. In the aftermath of the battle, Diana forgave her brother for his deceit.[93]
Wonder Woman appears in the first three issues of the Ame-Comi comic run. She is depicted as a young warrior eager to prove herself in battle, but when she goes against her mothers words it results in a punishment of sorts. Diana is made into an ambassador of peace to the world outside of Themyscira, which she is reluctant to perform. At a U.N. Assembly where she announces Themyscira's intention for peace she is attack by Cheetah, who is quickly defeated. This depiction of Diana is that of a younger amazon who is depicted in a more arrogant and aggressive manner.
The Lasso of Truth, or Lasso of Hestia, was forged by Hephaestus from the golden girdle of Gaea.[182] The original form of the Lasso in the Golden Age was called the Magic Lasso of Aphrodite. It compels all beings who come into contact with it to tell the absolute truth and is virtually indestructible;[182] in Identity Crisis, Green Arrow mistakenly describes it as "the only lie detector designed by Zeus." The only times it has been broken were when Wonder Woman herself refused to accept the truth revealed by the lasso, such as when she confronted Rama Khan of Jarhanpur,[206] and by Bizarro in Matt Wagner's non-canonical Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity.[207] During the Golden Age, the original form of the Lasso had the power to force anyone caught to obey any command given them, even overriding the mind control of others; this was effective enough to defeat strong-willed beings like Captain Marvel.[208] Diana wields the Lasso with great precision and accuracy and can use it as a whip or noose.
Wonder Woman's powers are a result of the blessings she received from the gods (or presumably in the modern version by her divine ancestry), but originally came from her "brain energy" training. Her abilities in large part come from her upbringing in the martial society of the Amazons. She is one of the most powerful superheroes in the DC universe.
By the time that Robert Kanigher took over the character, a change away from traditional comics as a whole was accomplished. He eventually veered completely away from superheroism and essentially only told stories involving the Wonder Family, which consisted of Wonder Woman, her teenage version Wonder Girl, her baby version Wonder Tot and her mother. This eventually proved not very popular and Kanigher was forced to rethink the character and cast her in a more traditional superhero context (he actually explained this decision in comics to the reader with his various creations vying to remain in continuity against his wishes). It was at this time for instance that Wonder Woman saw the return of some characters that had been missing for some time such as the Cheetah or Doctor Psycho. It was also at this time that she became a founding member of the original Justice League of America.
The final remaining relics Darkseid needed were being guarded by A.R.G.U.S. at their HQ, so Darkseid decided to use a Boom Tube to transport the building and all its contents to his base in the Amazon Rainforest. The Female Furies retrieved the relics and put them into place while Wonder Woman fought Darkseid. With the relics' power, Darkseid was able to open a portal to Themyscira. As it is impossible for one who has set foot on Themyscira to return after leaving, Diana was unable to follow Grail through the portal. Grail invaded and began transforming the Amazons into creatures resembling Darkseid's Parademons.[98] As Jason had never actually set foot on Themyscira, he followed Grail and met his mother Hippolyta for the first time since his birth. While Jason and Hippolyta fought off the transformed Amazons, Wonder Woman was able to defeat Darkseid through her love for her deceased father, Zeus, and her half-siblings, calling their spirits out of Darkseid's body and destroying him from the inside. The Amazons captured Grail and imprisoned her in the prison beneath Themyscira, alongside Ares, while Darkseid re-emerged somewhere on Earth. Jason was gifted a magical spear from his mother and returned to Earth.[99]
Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and fertility, blessed Diana with strength drawn from the Earth spirit Gaea, making her one of the physically strongest heroes in the DC Universe and the strongest female hero in the DC Universe. This strength has allowed her to easily overwhelm Superman and Supergirl. She has also held her own against Darkseid. Her strength has no measurable limits and she can break the Chronus Scepter, which is universal in its destructive power. However, now Diana is the daughter of Zeus, king of the Greek Gods, so it is unclear as to how much of her power and strength is a direct result of her divine heritage.[179] Her connection to the earth allows her to heal at an accelerated rate so long as she is in contact with the planet. However, as mentioned earlier, now that she is a demigoddess, it has been suggested that she heals extremely quickly also due to her divine heritage. In rare cases where she has been gravely injured, Diana showed the ability to physically merge with the earth, causing whatever injuries or poisons to be expelled from her body; such an act is considered sacred, and can only be used in extreme cases.[180]
After the 2011 relaunch, Diana gained new powers. These new abilities, which included superhuman speed, durability, immortality, accelerated healing, and even flight came in addition to her previous attributed Olympian strength. She is now considered to be stronger than Hercules. In addition to her weaponry, Diana's bracelets can now create an thunderous explosion when she clashes them together. These new abilities are attributed to being the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus. Her powers are now considered nearly unmeasurable if she goes without her Bracelets of Submission, which keep her powers in check. She uses these powers in battle against the goddess Artemis and quickly renders her unconscious with ease with a series of carefully positioned counterattacks. While using her godly strength, her outfit and accoutrements lit up and her eyes glowed like her father's.[184][188][better source needed][189]
The First Born imprisoned Wonder Woman in what remained of Olympus and ordered his forces to attack Themyscira. As they watched the confrontation, the First Born offered her a place in his goals of conquest, but she steadfastly refused, causing him to thrust a spike into her side.[46] As Diana lied mortally wounded, Eris dragged her to Themyscira, for she wanted Diana to see her home destroyed and humiliate her. Recovering her strength, Wonder Woman punched Eris down and took Zola and Zeke to Olympus. Her plan was to place Zeke on the throne, so that he could be the new king of Olympus and end the bloodshed, but before she could, Poseidon revealed his presence.[47]
Despite their displeasure at Diana's capture, Hephaestus was able to bring Lennox and Eros to Hades with him as guests to the wedding, without the aid of Hermes' staff. As the wedding drew nearer, Hades grew annoyed that few of his relatives had agreed to come. Diana's friends were the only attendees, aside from Strife, who merely wanted to cause her namesake emotion. Before the wedding ceremony took place, Hades insisted that Diana should prove her love by wearing his ring. The ring was a noose fashioned with the Lasso of Truth, and if Diana did not truly love him, he would kill her.[22]
The story then focuses on Wonder Woman's quest to rescue Zola from Hades, who had abducted her and taken her to Hell at the end of the sixth issue of the series.[137][138][139][140] The male children of the Amazons are introduced and Diana learns about the birth of her "brothers" – the Amazons used to infrequently invade ships coming near their island and force themselves on the sailors, before killing them. After nine months, the birth of the resulting female children was highly celebrated and they were inducted into the ranks of the Amazons while the male children were rejected. In order to save the male children from being drowned to death by the Amazons, Hephaestus traded weapons to the Amazons in exchange for them.[137][141][142]
In the 1910s, Peter was a staff artist at the magazine Judge, where he contributed to its suffrage page called "The Modern Woman," which ran from 1912 to 1917. More regularly, the art on that page was drawn by another staff artist, a woman named Lou Rogers. Rogers' suffrage and feminist cartoons very often featured an allegorical woman chained or roped, breaking her bonds. Sanger hired Rogers as art director for the Birth Control Review, a magazine she started in 1917. In 1920, in a book called Woman and the New Race, Sanger argued that woman "had chained herself to her place in society and the family through the maternal functions of her nature, and only chains thus strong could have bound her to her lot as a brood animal." In 1923, an illustration commissioned by Rogers for the cover of Birth Control Review pictured a weakened and desperate woman, fallen to her knees and chained at the ankle to a ball that reads, "UNWANTED BABIES." A chained woman inspired the title of Sanger's 1928 book, Motherhood in Bondage, a compilation of some of the thousands of letters she had received from women begging her for information about birth control; she described the letters as "the confessions of enslaved mothers."
I thought George's one "mistake" in rebooting Wonder Woman was making her only 25 years old when she left Paradise Island. I preferred the idea of a Diana who was thousands of years old (as, if I recall correctly, she was in the TV series). From that angle, I would have liked to have seen Diana having been Wonder Woman in WW2, and be returning to our world in the reboot. Not having that option, I took the next best course, and had Hippolyta fill that role.[80]
Wonder Woman's sexual and bondage themes in her earliest days were not without purpose, however. Her creator, William Moulton Marston, theorized that human relationships could be broken down into dominance, submission, inducement and compliance roles which were embedded into our psyche. Because males were, more often than not, dominant in societies, Marston believed that "Women as a sex, are many times better equipped to assume emotional leadership than are males." [261] Marston wanted to convey his progressive ideals, through his use of bondage imagery, that women are not only capable of leadership roles, but should be in charge of society. Although Marston had good intentions with these themes, in Wonder Woman's early appearances, the bondage elements were controversial, as they were often seen to overly fetishize women in power rather than promote such women. Noah Berlatsky criticized this imagery in Wonder Woman's earliest days noting that "the comics take sensual pleasure in women's disempowerment." [262] Despite having the mixed messages of this imagery, Marston fiercely believed that women would soon rule the earth and meant to showcase his predictions through sexual themes in his stories. He was an open feminist while studying at Harvard where he once said "Girls are also human beings, a point often overlooked!" [263]
Fans of modern day comic book characters would have some difficulty relating to characters from the early golden age, and Wonder Woman is no exception. In her first appearance in the comics, she has obviously fulfilled the role of an icon for readers, but so too did her secret identity, Diana Prince. The character was created in a time when different cultural and societal norms existed in North America.
After Crisis on Infinite Earths, the character's origin was slightly retold by Greg Potter and George Perez. In this version, the Amazons were reincarnations of the souls of abused and murdered women from ancient days. In 1200 B.C. a debate occurred on Mount Olympus on how mankind should be made to relate to the gods. Ares, the god of war and destruction, wanted to descend upon the world with his army and crush mankind submission. This was opposed by the others gods present including Artemis, who wanted peace and suggested creating a new race that would lead humans on the right path. Zeus rejected their arguments, and they decided to proceed without his blessing. With the aid of Charon the ferryman, the gods reached the Womb of Gaea, where the souls of women who were abused and murdered at the hands of men were preserved by Gaea herself. Artemis then sent the souls to Greece where they reincarnated into adult women. Aphrodite observed that one soul still remains in the Womb, to which Athena replied that the time had not yet come for that one. The new race in Greece were approached by the goddesses, who bestowed upon them several blessings, charging them with the purpose of leading humanity in the ways of Gaea. They then appointed Hippolyte and Antiope as co-rulers. The civilization is named the Amazons. Stories of this civilization spread throughout Greece and reached the ears of Heracles, who was being manipulated by Ares into attacking the Amazons. Heracles approached the Amazons but was defeated by Hippolyte, upon which he pretended friendship and declared the Amazons allies. When their guard was down, the Greeks drugged the Amazons, taking Hippolyte, Antiope and the other survivors captive. In her cell, Hippolyte is freed by Athena ,who reminds her of her purpose and asked her to avoid revenge and pursue peaceful means. Hippolyte escaped and freed the rest of the Amazons. She shared Athena's message to the Amazons, but blinded by their thirst for revenge, they ruthlessly slaughter the remaining men. Antiope gave Hippolyta her girdle and left to pursue revenge The goddesses appeared and told them they had failed in their purpose and banished them to an island to guard the terrible evil within, as penance. They were granted immortality as long as they did not stray from their new purpose, which would eventually purify their souls. The Amazons built a nation and lived there for 4,000 years. It is during this time that Hippolyte, sole leader of the Amazons, felt an unexplained yearning. Menalippe, the Oracle, told her she was the only Amazon pregnant at the time of her previous incarnation's death, and thus the yearning she felt was the call of her unborn child. As per her advise, Hippolyte went to the shore at sunrise and made a clay figure of a baby. She then cried out to Artemis. The gods, recognizing it was time for the remaining soul in Gaea's womb to depart, infused it into the clay form, which then incarnated as a real child. Blessed with Gaea's greatest gift, life, the gods present bestowed their gifts upon the newborn: Demeter granted the baby great strength, Aphrodite granted her great beauty and a loving heart, Athena granted her great wisdom, Artemis granted her the eye of the hunter and unity with beasts, Hestia granted her sisterhood with fire, and Hermes gave her great speed and the power of flight. Hippolyte named her after a holy warrior, Diana, and she grew up knowing the love of a thousand mothers. Thus Diana of Themyscira was born.


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When I first got the Metabones IV adapter for my Sony A7 system I was using an A7R and the intent was to use my Canon TSE lenses. I gave the 300mm a try and found that the adapter did not communicate aperture settings to the camera so it was always F4.0. I decided I'd sell it along with my other Canon lenses that I wasn't planning to use with the Sony via the Metabones adapter.
A couple of weeks ago I saw something in a forum post about Metabones firmware and went to the site to see if there was an update for my version. There was (V.41) so I downloaded into the adapter and did a quick test with the 300. The lens now transmitted aperture data to the camera via the adapter and I could change the aperture. Now the lens was useful.
I have two Sigma teleconverters, the latest version, originally purchased to use with a Sigma 120-300 F2.8. I sold that lens when I sold my Canon Cameras but not the adapters. So, I decided to test them as well. They worked with the lens and adapter to communicate aperture and support aperture adjustment via the camera.
So, now it was time to do a test to see if the combination of Sony A7II, Metabones adapter, Canon 300mm L lens and the Sigma adapter could product acceptable results.
I did some quick hand held testing and was impressed but a forum post about shooting the moon with a long tele lens on a tripod got me to do a more comprehensive test. Camera, lens combination was mounted on my heaviest tripod which has a large ball head. Both from Calumet Photo before its demise. I mounted the lens to the tripod via its ring and let the camera and Metabones adapter counter balance the lens. The mounting arrangement also made changing the Sigma teleconverters easier as well.
All the images are camera generated JPGs. The cropped images are as close to 100% as I could get by cropping them in the Lightroom develop module. They are from the center of the frame. I know some people want to see edge to edge 100% crops to see about corner sharpness. I find that the edge of an image is generally less important so I rarely have a need to ensure sharpness there. Especially at widest aperture. If the edges are important I'll be stopping down the lens to its optimum aperture. Even so, when I looked at the images in Lightroom at 100% I was rewarded with reasonably sharp edges wide open. Including the teleconverter test images.
There is no additional sharpening applied in Lightroom or when exporting.
Here are the results:
I am favorably impressed with these results. I think I've found an acceptable combination for long lens shooting.
I ordered a gimbal head to mount on a monopod which should help to steady the combination. I got the idea from a review Michael Reichmann did on his Luminous Landscape site.


text: Chaucer's Early Poetry. Chaucer Frühe Dichtung. Examines how Chaucer's early poems (i.e., those written before 1380) engage the conventional forms, techniques, and themes of French and Italian models, enriching them via "humour and realism" and applying them to "new uses." His innovative "juxtapositions and sequences" reflect both his "poetic temperament" and a "transitional period" in literary history. In BD he makes the "style and form of French poetry come alive within his English idiom," combining dream vision, elegy, and dramatic conversation in a "novel" combination of "heterogeneous elements." The "humour and irony" of HF results from his experiments with an unexpected narrative persona, stylistic variety, wry uses of source material, and startling juxtapositions and reversals, remaking the traditional "allegorical journey," PF is a "conscious work of art" that explores aspects of the allegorical mode (personification, allegoresis, beast fable, etc.) and submits its themes and techniques to genial satire. In various ways, ABC, Pity, Lady, Mars, and Anel also illustrate Chaucer's attraction—and resistance—to poetic traditions. Adapted and expanded from the author's 1938 "Der Junge Chaucer," and published simultaneously in German and English. Criticism and Medieval Poetry. Applies the techniques of "close reading" or "practical criticism" to works of medieval literature, adjusting the method to accord with medieval literary and linguistic conventions, especially oral recitation. Examines passages from "Piers Plowman," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," TC, and Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," along with medieval literary theory found in the "artes poeticae" while referring to a wide range of works. The discussion of TC, "Chaucer as Novelist" (pp. 96-117), focuses on ways in which the poem is and is not "novelistic," examining two passages closely (Criseyde's dream, 2.915ff., and the lovers' parting, 4.1128ff), disclosing the ways that they, "life-like" and ambiguous, impose "no one interpretation on us." Elsewhere explicates BD 387-442, comments on Chaucer's engagement with medieval rhetoricians, and investigates the "complex relationship with Chaucer" found in Henryson's "Testament." Aspects of Chaucer's Use of Animals. Surveys Chaucer's various metaphoric uses of animals, from "simple and conventional ideas about animals to throw light on man" to more elaborated or developed characterizations through more detailed comparisons. Animal Imagery and the Pardoner's "Abnormality." Adduces "popular lore" to show that Chaucer's references to a hare and a goat in the GP description of the Pardoner (1.684 and 688)—corroborated by other details from the actions and descriptions of the Pardoner—characterize him as a "testicular hermaphrodite of the feminine type." Chaucer's Miller, Pilate, and the Devil. Explores associative and metaphoric links between Chaucer's Miller (GP and MilP), the devil, and Pilate, who was "traditionally an agent of the devil." The Aesthetic of Chaucer's Art of Contrast. Surveys Chaucer's uses of thematic and stylistic contrast, antithesis, and contention, treating them not as examples of a divided mind "but rather of a mind most aesthetically aware how best to state what is experienced most intensely." Draws examples from a range of Chaucer's works, CT most extensively. Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and the Theme of Appearance and Reality in "The Canterbury Tales." Argues that by "idealizing" reality "into unreality" KnT opens the "question of appearance and reality," a recurrent concern throughout CT which is resolved only in ParsT. Chaucer's Tender Trap: The Troilus and the "Yonge, Fresshe Folkes." Explores the "shock of contrast" between the rejection of worldly love at the end of TC and the celebration of love found in earlier sections of the poem. The address to "yonge, fresshe folks" (5.1835) is consistent with the protagonists' youthful love, part of Chaucer's sustained, coherent sequence of details and events that invite "his audience to grow up" and realize that "service of the god of Love . . . [is] fundamentally pagan." Tragik und Komik in Chaucers "Troilus and Criseyde." Examines the tragic, comic, and ironic features of TC, comparing it with MkT in the genre of tragedy, and assessing its tragic, comic, tragicomic, and ironic aspects of theme, situation, characterization, and dialogue. The Two Tellers of "The Merchant's Tale." Argues that MerT "characterizes the Merchant" consistently, attributing several "awkward" passages in the Tale to the Merchant's engagement with an ongoing "debate" about marriage and considering his "pretensions" and "intense personal involvement" to be "indispensable for our understanding of the ludicrous contrasts" in the Tale—coarseness and courtliness, astrology and animalism, and deities and pettiness. Chaucer's Icarus-Complex: Some Notes on His Adventures in Theology. Contrasts the "quasi-heretical," "so-called Augustinian" views of sex in marriage as always sinful with those of Thomas Aquinas and others who treat sexual love in marriage as sinless when consistent with "amicitia" (friendship) and reason, arguing that the latter underlies Chaucer's view of sex in marriage in ParsT, analogous material in Peraldus's "Summa Aurea de Virtutibus et de Vitiis," and PF. Chaucer's Use of Function Words with Substantives. Tabulates and analyzes Chaucer's use of function words before nouns and pronouns, showing that his usage "resembles in the main that of modern English," although in at least one respect more similar to "modern vulgar English than modern standard English." Augustinian Neurosis and the Therapy of Criticism. Argues that in ClT Chaucer "has successfully humanized the psychological motivation of both Walter and Griselda," de-emphasizing the "supernatural" aspects of the characterizations found in analogous narratives, and depicting his protagonists with motives "consistent with the tenets of the psychological system promulgated by Saint Augustine." The Scansion of Two Lines in Chaucer. Scans two lines of GP (49 and 173), "usually felt to be awkward," arguing that in light of comparable Middle English examples the syllable counts and stress patterns of these lines are consistent with the "iambic-decasyllabic theory." Froissart, Chaucer and Enclimpostair. Reviews attempts to clarify Chaucer's reference to Morpheus's companion "Eclympasteyr," found in BD line 167 and also found in Froissart's "Paradys d'Amour" as "Enclimpostair." Argues on linguistic and literary grounds that the name in "plain English" means "Supine, or Lean-Back," while "[i]n America, the likes of him are called "Lazy-Bones." Parody in the Pardoner's Tale. Argues that in PardPT the Pardoner "is parodying himself—deliberately magnifying his character and conduct in order to portray himself as a monster of evil" exaggerating so that the other pilgrims will interpret him comically, as a "charming rogue," while he obliquely confronts them with their own perfidy, much as the Old Man confronts the rioters. The Mixed Style of the "Nun's Priest's Tale." Demonstrates the "stylistic virtuosity" of NPT, consistent with its "multiple perspective," commenting on the plain style of the widow frame, "cinematic" details in descriptions, the quality and comedy of direct dialogue, the "graver rhetoric of the didactic style," "dramatic economy," etc. Children in Chaucer. Argues that children in Chaucer's works are generally depicted with "tender pity," discussing narratives in which children have relatively prominent roles: MLT, MkT, ClT, PhyT, and PrT. Chaucer's Artistic Accomplishment in Molding the "Wife of Bath's Tale." Identifies "traces of the primitive folk tale" that underlie the Cupid and Psyche myth and WBT, and maintains Chaucer's familiarity with some version of the myth. Compares and contrasts aspects of the Tale with its English analogues, and argues that the superiority of Chaucer's version is due to the influence of the myth (especially evident in the motif of "double transformation") as well as to the "genius" of Chaucer's "narrative skill" in combining various motifs. Thomas Hoccleve: A Study in Early Fifteenth-Century English Poetic. Defends the artistic qualities of Thomas Hoccleve as a poet, acknowledging his medieval conventionality, but emphasizing his originality in adapting conventions and source material, the competence of his meter, and the autobiographical elements of his verse, particularly examples of "personal feelings." Surveys Hoccleve's corpus with frequent comparisons of his forms and themes with those of Chaucer, John Lydgate, and others. Also comments on his debt to Chaucer, the presumed friendship of the two poets, and the portraits of Chaucer in three manuscripts of Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes," reproducing the one from Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 1083/10 (here cited as MS 594). Geoffrey Chaucer. Describes Chaucer's life and works, with an introduction to historical backgrounds, a chronology of events, a summary of critical reception, a bibliography for further reading, and an index. The biography emphasizes dates and events, and the survey of Chaucer's corpus includes a summary description of each work, attention to style and themes, and a synopsis of critical opinions. Treats CT and TC most extensively, but includes discussion of the translations (Rom, Bo, and Astr); the dream poems, here called "Short Poems" (BD, HF, PF, LGW, with Anel); and the short poems, here called "Minor Poems," the latter considered individually or in groups (complaints, ballads, and envoys). The Comic Tales of Chaucer. Summarizes each of the "comic" tales of CT, with appreciative, inferential, scene-by-scene commentary on techniques of characterization, situations, and enlivening details that make the Tales "amusing." Essentially farcical, the action of MilT results more from "character and situation" than coincidence; similarly farcical, RvT provides enjoyment via "poetic justice," opportunism, and "mistakes in the night." ShT suffers from a "thin plot," but offers clever talk and an "intellectual" climax. The simple action of NPT is well adorned with "disproportions," "incongruities," and "comicalities," many of which burlesque MkT. The exchange of FrT and SumT succeeds because of balance among farce, satire, ironies, poetic justice, and surprise. MerT combines "cool" irony, "biting" satire, and indirection that produce rich innuendo and drama of character. Also comments on comic elements in Th, CkT, and CYT. Chaucer: Poet of Mirth and Morality. Describes how Chaucer's "mirth reveals his moral premises" and conveys joy throughout his poetic corpus, explaining how the early dream poems, in varying degrees, communicate the progress of the comic narrators toward greater moral and philosophic realizations about kinds of love. At times reflecting PF, TC combines Boethius's "divinely comic philosophy" with Chaucer's awareness of human exuberance and excess to disclose the tragedy of fortune and human blindness. Generally, CT reveals the order and Providential justice implicit in human diversity and limitation. Part 1 lays out "modes" of comedy, complemented by the mirth of the religious tales and the dramatic interplay of the Marriage Group. Comedy "unmasks" vice in FrT, SumT, and PardPT, while Th, Mel, MkT, and NPT are more oblique in their expressions of moral philosophy. CYPT and ManPT diminish "comic joy and zest" but ParsT and Ret replace them with penitential forgiveness. Exegetical Grammar in the "House of Fame." Reads Chaucer's summary of Virgil's "Aeneid" in Book 1 of HF as comic—a parody of several practices of "exegetical grammar," including translation, "dictiones ethicae" (soliloquies), paraphrase, and moral interpretation. The purpose of the parody is "to consider, and to reject, the uses of grammar for poetry." English Literature: A Portrait Gallery. Reproduces in black and white the London National Portrait Gallery panel portrait of Chaucer (p. 2), preceded by a brief comment on Chaucer's life, with reference to William Dunbar's praise of him, mention of the TC frontispiece portrait (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61), and the claim that the "basis of the panel illustration" is the illustration of Chaucer that accompanies Thomas Hoccleve "Regement of Princes" (British Library, MS Harley 4866, f. 88r).


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By Saul Gwakuba-Ndlovu
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has recently been publicly criticised for telling assault complainants to bring the assailants to the police stations so the officers can arrest them.
An obviously senior ZRP officer tried, but most inarticulately and unconvincingly, in a recent ZTV programme to explain how the force ha been unaware of that most unprofessional practice, and that it would investigate the matter, and deal with those responsible according to the police professional code.
It is a matter of national security that the ZRP actually exists, and that the country's laws are enforced by its personnel without whom Zimbabwe would turn into a jungle.
Some years ago, the ZRP issued a Charter, a document that outlined what the force called its aims and objectives; what some people refer to as a 'mandate'.
We are pleased to note here that the ZRP's infamous roadblock era is now gone.
The complaint against the ZRP concerns, in particular, women assaulted by men.
Some of the victims go to report to the nearest ZRP post where the officers advise them to go and bring the accused, yes, the women to go and bring the male assailant.
Allow the author of this article to give a tragic example of this type of case: A pregnant Dombodema Resettlement Area woman was assaulted by her husband (boyfriend) at night about two years ago.
She went to the ZRP post at Dombodema Mission and reported the matter.
A ZRP officer advised her to go and bring her assailant with her.
She went back but thought it better to involve a member of a local neighbourhood watch committee, who was also a woman and was pregnant as well.
The two women told the accused that the ZRP wanted them to go with him to the post.
He agreed to meet them there, and both of them left for the post.
He, meanwhile, did not go to the ZRP post as he had promised, but waylaid them in the bush where he later attacked both women and killed them.
The culprit then hanged himself.
The author does not know how the ZRP post handled that tragedy.
The matter was irresponsibly treated by the ZRP from the very beginning.
It is a basic security requirement that whenever, wherever or however violence is involved, members of a professional police force should not involve civilians in the apprehension of suspects.
Their role in the arrest of suspects should be minimal.
During the early Southern Rhodesian days when black policemen were disdainfully called 'black watchers' (mabhurakwacha), only the most physically fit male members of the black community were recruited.
In case of a tussle between a suspect and a 'black watcher', the latter was expected to come out the winner.
That belief has not changed out there.
A good ZRP officer is trained to be mentally and physically prepared with, or without, arms to win against criminals.
The best practice is to be armed, at least lightly, especially out there in the rural areas.
Those who join the ZRP should understand and accept that their services are risky and that, like soldiers, every police officer carries other people's lives in his/her hands.
One of the best police forces in the world is believed to be the Canadian Royal Mounted Police force whose record of apprehending wanted criminals is second to none.
Members of that force are committed to their force, utterly!
The considered opinion of this writer is that the ZRP should make it a punishable office for any ZRP officer not to act promptly on any report made to his/her post.
Little ZRP action is taken on cases of assault in rural areas where some gold panners behave with naked violence and where drugs are consumed in broad daylight.
Those in doubt about the truthfulness of some of these allegations should consult closely and confidentially any respectable traditional leader: sabhuku, headman or chief.
One extremely important thing the ZRP is failing to carry out, if at all, are patrols on bicycles, motorcycles or on horseback.
It should be appreciated that a police officer's duty is not just to arrest law-breakers, but to prevent crime from being committed.
The mere appearance of a police officer in uniform stops a would-be rapist from molesting a vulnerable woman down the road; it stops the drug peddler from dropping a sackful of dagga at the noisy business centre along the road; it makes it impossible for the local gamblers to swindle the fearful local chicken-seller of her hard earned money, yes, the police officer in uniform maintains law and order by his or her mere appearance more than a local court with a gowned prosecutor and a wigged magistrate.
Out in the rural areas, traditional leaders have a legal obligation to give police on patrol minimum comfort such as accommodation and refreshments.
They, in turn, are expected to show some respect to the community in which they work.
Now that all indigenous Zimbabwean languages are official, the ZRP can, in fact should, take advantage of that by teaching Tonga, Nambya, TjiKalanga, Shangana, Chewa and Venda at its training schools so that its personnel will be at home not only in Shona and Ndebele-speaking regions but in other areas as well.
ZRP policy generators need to know that people who work among and with communities are more acceptable to those communities if they can speak the local language or languages.
It is foolish and counter-productive to send a non-Tonga-speaking officer to police Chief Siachilaba's area.
The current Zimbabwean languages environment is a big advantage to serious-minded ZRP personnel.
Meanwhile, the public should know that a matter that has been reported to the ZRP becomes the ZRP's official responsibility from the time the report is made.
If a body of a murder victim is found by a chief and he reports its presence to the ZRP, the matter is no longer in his hands, but those of the ZRP.
The same applies to assaults, rape, suicides, burglaries, thefts and similar criminal matters.
Saul Gwakuba-Ndlovu is a retired, Bulawayo-based journalist. He can be contacted on cell 0734 328 136 or through email:


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[Current Mainland Chinese Drama 2019] Mr. Fighting 加油,你是最棒的
bluesytb replied to sugarplum892's topic in Mainland ChinaLoved the series, but it was a hard watch (hard on my heart) Oh I tried to watch GGS for Yang Zi & dropped it eventually. The biggest problem for me was the relationship b/t an 18/19 y/o & a 30 y/o and her whole life revolved around him gah, so icky.
I'm kind of interested in where this one goes, tbh Yeah, there's definitely issues with this one, (mostly in the writing & directing by my thoughts) but I'm interested in the pay off - where it's going to go politically. There is also some gorgeous cinematography tbh. Personally I'd like to see the downfall of all three wealthy families at some point & see all their wealth go to the community, lol. Fwiw, this is set in Republican era China so Hai Tang being gracious, makes sense in the context she's set in, being a woman @ that time & especially having to deal with with rich & powerful families who are all awful & exploitative (which rich people pretty much all are anyways) I actually don't think she's that much of a pushover? More than gracious, yes, but she stands up for herself, her loved ones, and does things the way she wants to, despite living in a repressive era.
So wrt to RY - he did not "just manipulate" Jinmi. What he did to her was completely abusive. Not only did he manipulate her, he forced himself on her(wrt trying to get her married to him), when he KNEW she was like a child in many respects. And when he realized she was completely in love with XF, he took it upon himself, without any consent, to fix the yundan pill, taking away her agency. And that is not all. He continuously lies to her (and her father - making him believe they are mutually attracted , when that's not the case, otherwise Water god would have never consented to the marriage.) He imprisons her against her will more than once, stalks her continuously. and really how much is telling when he says to her "I want you to go back to to the way you were" (before the love of your life was murdered) No respect to her feelings, it's all about how he feels, what he wants. RY also manipulated evidence against XF, (changing the dream) so that JM turns against XF, He almost Genocides the entire flower realm to possess JinMi. There's not many characters I despise, but RY is one of them. On to XF. who is also one of my favourite characters. I don't think he's perfect at all, and that's why hes one of my favourite characters. His character is very human - and humans are not perfect. - neither you nor I. He doesn't always do the right thing (nor say the right thing - though neither does JM) because the right thing sometimes is very hard to do and it takes a lot of thinking and questioning yourself and loved ones. I agree he could/should have spoken up sooner/more WRT his parents - however I do think he is mainly innocent as he is under the assumption that his parents are doing the best for everyone since that's what he's been indoctrinated into. He's also been used as a pawn by both parents, especially his mom who wants to use him to consolidate her power. He does definitely call his mom out more than once, and you can definitely see him struggling with trying to deal with everything that happens & also trying to remain filial. I also agree there's probably not much he could have done in the long run. But I do think he was trying to do things his way (like trying to get his mom to confess to Water & Wind's murders) When RY confronts him @ his parent's tomb (which was really shitty to do to - since all XF wanted to do was visit his parents one last time) He's seen talking to Mu Ci after and uestions his entire belief system - This is why I think XF is a great character - he's far from perfect, but he adapts, and changes. He literally has no ulterior motives. Also there is a big cultural part to this too - I mean I am not Chinese and don't want to be presumptuous, so I don't want to get too far out of my lane (and please correct me if needed) but I feel like filial piety is a pretty important aspect of the culture. So it's best not to assume all cultures have the same values.
[Current Mainland Chinese Drama 2019] My True Friend 我的真朋友
bluesytb replied to sugarplum892's topic in Mainland ChinaI'm so, so sorry. I apologize - I should not have assumed anything. Idk, for me they feel like different characters, but I get where you're coming from. Yes, I see - it's just not in my lane.
[Current Mainland Chinese Drama 2019] My True Friend 我的真朋友
bluesytb replied to sugarplum892's topic in Mainland ChinaI see where you're coming from, and agree to a point - but do feel that the series does at least question this narrative (from my thoughts anyways.) To me, I kinda feel like the series poses questions from different sides (Not always well, tbh) Like, for example XiShan doesn't care whether her bf is rich or has a car or whatever, but he's hung up on the fact that he thinks he to provide for her. And I totally agree there are a lot of cliched moments and lots of not-so-great writing. WRT ZZ, I agree, but also there's a part of me that kinda understands where she's coming from. I mean he's been her idol since high school/college or whatever and she's lost in the fantasy of him, and she thinks she's in love with him. I disagree here. Have you lost a parent or loved one? It is unbelievable heartbreaking and life changing. one of the worst things that can happen. I think he's quite an interesting character, personally. Though at first glance he's obnoxious and seemingly selfish, he's actually quite generous and kind. And he does change slowly, into a far more respectful person (though I do have something to say about his chauvinistic side lol) I get what you're saying - but for me, I don't feel comfortable as a westerner/non Asian person to have any sort of comment on this. It's really not my lane. Though I guess I've also seen a lot of that too here in the west? Like influencers for example - I remember recently watching a woman who streamed herself saying to her baby "oh I'm sad you don't have pretty eyes" or something. Idk, I don't understand it personally.
[Current Mainland Chinese Drama 2019] My True Friend 我的真朋友
bluesytb replied to sugarplum892's topic in Mainland ChinaI don't know - I think I've only seen her in Tai Chi 0 (aside from this), so I really don't know much about her. Yes, I feel that's one of the main points is that shes obsessed with the idea of JR. And she's coming to realize he's not the person she thinks he is, and that they're not compatible. She's beginning to speak her mind now that he made some major decisions for her. I think that's why I enjoy Cdramas so much. (I mean for the social themes part) though as for shallowness/being materialistic - to be honest I kinda feel like a lot of people have their reasons, so I can kinda see where that side comes from. I mean, it's a hard world to live in and a lot of people struggle to get by, and often money is a solution to that problem. Not only that, but there's also cultural issues as well - like how men and women are perceived and socialized (and I mean this is a worldwide issue - not limited to any one country) I mean to me, examples would be Mei Li - always going on about beauty standards, and how she always steals away jobs, wanting to be the best - underneath it all, I feel she's horribly insecure and needing to prove herself her value. Or Fu Xiao Ning - His shallowness comes from feeling like he needs to provide for his gf And even ZZ - her shallowness - is JR being her idol and her thinking she's in love with him when she barely knows him. She's kinda constructed an elaborate fantasy around him (likewise he does the same to her -wanting her to be the perfect little housewife to raise his children) These last few episodes show her seriously doubting him, and the veil coming off and seeing him as he really is. Those are just my thoughts on the subject anyways - not that I'm right or anything.
[Current Mainland Chinese Drama 2019] My True Friend 我的真朋友
bluesytb replied to sugarplum892's topic in Mainland ChinaI agree It does feel preachy at times, and some of the writing is heavy handed and clunky, (and that AB is limited as an actress) - but I feel like it does show relevant social issues that affect many people. I guess it depends on what you look for in dramas - to me, this isn't so much a love story as a social story. And that's cool by me. Personally, I'd much rather watch a drama like this than one without thought about status quo and sociopolitical issues. FWIW I'm enjoying watching SPC & ZZ grow as people and as friends.
[Current Mainland Chinese Drama 2019] My True Friend 我的真朋友
bluesytb replied to sugarplum892's topic in Mainland ChinaI'm enjoying this one so far - despite some clunky writing and some ehh acting by Angelababy. (she does have some decent moments though) Personally, I don't watch dramas for romance, but for storylines and how sociopolitical issues are shown. (yes, I know, Im such a dork don't @ me lol) so I don't mind if there isn't any romance, or if there is, I just hope it's well written & socially aware. That being said, ZZ & JR's relationship is super uncomfortable to watch, (it kinda makes me anxious to watch them together ngl) as ZZ looks up to JR as an idol and he sees her as a ...well, broodmare. (as as others above have also said) but luckily the veneer is coming off and she's starting to have serious doubts. Which she should because OMG THAT DUDE IS SOMETHING ELSE. It breaks my brain to think that they just started dating, barely know each other, and he proposes to her (while she's just had a big shock) and is wholly possessive of her, wanting her to do his bidding. Meanwhile she has never said yes but he & his mom act like it's a done deal. One other thing that irked me, during the scene where SPC gets stabbed, JR doesn't even care - like he just wants to get ZZ away from SPC, who is bleeding profusely. Not even taking him/going with him to the hospital. As for SPC - I don't believe in friendzones/whatever-zones - I believe no one is owed a relationship. So whatever happens with them, I just hope it's well written.
Exactly. Agree with everything you said. I'm a total sucker for genuinely kind characters, and XF, definitely fits the bill. I'm SO glad they made him soft. With everything he's been through, he never once thought of betrayal, nor being manipulative - pretty much always staying true to his core. He's the kind of person I'd just want to be around/be friends with.
Yeah, he's definitely one of my favourite characters too! (along with Jin Mi) I feel like the writers (& DL's portrayal) made his character very human.
I think RY dropped in as he was destroying it - and stopped him from doing so altogether. I feel like XF is just a mess of emotions when he's revived. I mean he's got Sui He telling him lies and RY telling him lies WRT JM, and as you've noted, he's been feeling very betrayed (with very good reason!) but I also think he's starting to question SH at this point as well. To me, I feel like he's just in chaos emotionally - since he's been so utterly betrayed by the person he trusted the most, and yet he still can't bring himself to hate her - he just wants to push her away, and not even think of her since it hurts him so much. So yeah, I agree with the others above - he''s wanting to punish her, but also not wanting to as well. I think the the expression on his face, when he's starting to destroy the Phoenix hairpin, and JM starts crying "不要!不要!" (No, don't!) He's visibly shaken and not quite sure what to believe. Then later on, when he's in the cave alone, and everyone else is gone - he chides himself - since his heart is still with JM yet his mind is like, "dude she teamed up with RY and killed you, bro - they're gonna hurt you and probably kill you again."
You can watch The Gods/ Creation of Gods/ Investiture of the Gods on MangoTv (in my location I can only watch it via the app) They have up to episode 37 as of now. If you're watching for DL, you probably want to give it a miss, as he's barely in it, and uh, it's not great. From what I've heard, it was shot in 2014, so it's dated. I do admit it has a certain charm and is kinda interesting. But it's not quality. WRT Sweet Dreams, I actually really liked it, despite some awful and ??? writing. I like DD, though I'm not a big fan of the voice actor who dubs her in this. I think that because the cast is so great, they just make things work out (for the most part lol)
Maybe vaguely and/or occasionally lol! Yes! WDX & DL are sweet. Enjoying Justin (adorable kid!) & Zhang Guo Wei (he's such a ham)moments as well; Xie Yi Lin is also adorable. I think the only person I'm not huge on is YM. Personally, I'm okay with the the two just being side characters since their story has already been told, and really, I don't think those two need any more drama in their lives lol! I just want them to live happily and peacefully ever after .
I just started watching Great Escape, and I really wish my Mandarin was better (need to do more work on it lol) It is absolutely hilarious, - came for WDX & DL, but really, I love them all and just want to hang out with them - they are so pleasant and cheeky and fun! They're all great.
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