Post 159: Musicals

Previously on my blog: "I have seen Fiddler on the Roof and I must say...not the biggest fan. I didn't hate it. But, it is far from my favorite musical, in fact, it is preceded by Cats, Wicked, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Mamma Mia, The Book of Mormon, Rock of Ages, Evita, Grease, Sound of Music, Lion King, and Les Mis, and Flashdance (based off the actual musicals, not the movie versions.)"

This got me thinking about musicals vs. movies. I don't know if I have talked about it before, but I am quite often annoyed by the classification of things as musicals. Now, I understand that the definition is a film/show/play that consists of musical numbers, but I feel like the musical numbers must play a specific role to be classified as a musical. 

Shrek 2 has a musical number where Fairy Godmother sings on a piano, that is the only real musical number where a character sings, but I would not classify the movie as a musical. In the movie, Kinky Boots people perform songs on stage. But they don't just sing. It isn't like High School Musical where people sing rather than talk to people or keep their feelings internal. In Lemonade Mouth, there is not a single song that isn't part of a performance or band practice. 

Kinky Boots and Lemonade Mouth, to me, aren't musicals. Their subject matter happens to be a band or performer, but the songs don't really follow the pattern of other musicals and could be left out without changing the plot. 

Lemonade Mouth could have been declared a band and their performances could have been talked about rather than seen, and it wouldn't effect the plot. Meanwhile, you take out the songs from High School Musical or Evita and their is no plot. I feel like true musicals are almost back-to-back songs, where the songs move the plot along and are narrative devices. 

This is why, while I like Footloose, I don't classify it as a musical. Kevin Bacon goes around dancing, while listening to music and they have a school dance. But at no point does anyone sing, as a plot device or otherwise. Same with Pitch Perfect, they are singers. It isn't like in Grease where it is just accepted that people are going to sing, in Pitch Perfect they have a reason to be singing. 

Step Up has dance competitions, but no one sings randomly. They are performers. They dance in accordance with the plot, not to move the plot. 

If I am on Netflix looking for a musical, I am not looking for something like Pitch Perfect or Footloose or Flashdance (though, an ACTUAL musical version of it was made and it was quite good) I am looking for an ACTUAL musical. Netflix can you do something about your genres please?

Post 158: What do you want to watch?

I can be indecisive. There are moods that I get into where I really feel Buridan's ass paradox. It basically says that a donkey (ass) placed an equal distance from a source of water and a source of food, would die from starvation/thirst as it would not move. It has variants that a person between two identical sources of food would starve because they could not choose which one to eat and their indecision would lead to their death. 

Of course, to a lesser extreme. It comes up when asked, "what do you want to have for dinner?" 

But more often it comes up when I want to clean, cook, work on something, etc. and am looking for a TV show/movie to have on in the background. 

And I often don't know what I want to watch. So, recently I started looking up some quizzes for aid and almost every SINGLE one asked: "what do you feel like watching? Comedy, action, etc." 

IF I KNEW WHAT I FELT LIKE WATCHING I WOULDN'T NEED TO BE LOOKING UP QUIZZES TO GIVE ME SUGGESTIONS! 

What actually usually happens is I settle for some movie and then when the trailers come on, I see a trailer for something I would rather watch (though, 8 times out of 10 I don't actually own the movie I then want to watch). 

I will now take one of those quests, posting the progress with you so you can see what I mean. My thoughts are in red, my answers are in blue.

Question 1: What kind of movie do you feel like watching?

If I knew that I wouldn't be here, would I? 

Answers:

• Comedy 
• Adventure
• Romance
• Action

What about horror? Sci-Fi? Fantasy?

Question 2: Which actress would you love to spend a day with?

This is not helpful AT ALL. There are a lot of actors/actresses that I think would be cool to spend the day with, but not the best actors/actresses or that are in movies I dislike even though they seem like good people. But good actors/actresses in good movies/TV shows that are horrible people in real life. 

Answers:

• Anna Kendrick
• Ellen Page
• Cate Blanchett
• Kate Winslet

Other than Lord of the Rings and Cinderella, I cannot really say I know what Blanchett has been in, but I have heard that she is very nice and funny. Speaking of funny, each question has a picture and the picture for this question is Kristen Stewart, the epitome of my earlier point. I dislike Twilight and wasn't a huge fan of The Cake Eaters, but from interviews and fan commentary, I've heard she is actually a nice person. It is also kind of funny because she isn't one of the possible answers. Kristen Bell, on the other hand, I think is both someone who's work I like and seems like a good person. 

Question 3: Which actor would you rather go on a date with? 

Same issue as with the previous question, with the addition of age differences, sexual preferences, and marriages. 

Answers:

• Jude Law (44)
• Adam DeVine (33)
• Orlando Bloom (40)
• Leonardo DiCaprio (42)

Not really comfortable with any of them as the closest to my age is still 9 years older, but at least I don't think any are married or gay. I chose Bloom, because if nothing else maybe I can get some stories about filming Lord of the Rings with my friends, including one in love with Aragorn. 

Question 4: What is your favorite music genre? 

Maybe useful. Though, like movie genres, I couldn't give my favorite music genre. My preference in music is often less about a specific genre and more about the feeling they evoke or whether they have a good beat. 

Answers:

• Pop
• Jazz
• Soundtrack
• Classical

I actually went with soundtrack, because while I do have a lot of pop songs (more so than jazz or classical), soundtrack is more expansive. It can include other styles: the Rock of Ages soundtrack is very different from the Sound of Music soundtrack which is different from the Trolls soundtrack which is different from the Repo! the Genetic Opera soundtrack. 

Question 5: You and your friends are hanging out on a Friday night. You decide to have a midnight feast. What kind of snack do you have?

It actually is Friday and if I am up at midnight, I am in TROUBLE. I have to be up for work at 5am tomorrow. 

Answers:

• French Fries
• Burgers and Pizza
• Pancakes
• Donuts

After a LOOONG internal debate, I choose pizza. I don't really like any of them. Donuts are sweet and sticky, I'm not really a fan. I don't really like french fries (though, tater tots aren't bad). I REALLY don't like pancakes. Not really a fan of burgers either. Pizza is....eh. I'm not really a huge fan. I don't get excited by the prospect of it, but I don't hate it either. 

Question 6: What is your favorite kind of weather?

Answers:

• Snowy
• Windy and Rainy
• Hot and Sunny
• Sunny and Breezy

Question 7: What is your favorite movie of all time?

Answers:

• Interstellar (2014) Didn't see it. 
• Bridesmaids (2011) HATED IT. 
• It's Complicated (2009) Barely remember it. Think it was funny but forgettable. 
• Lord of the Rings: FotRing (2011) I liked it, but it wasn't even my favorite in the franchise. 

Question 8: You and your friends are hanging out and you decide to watch a TV show. Which show do you watch?

Answers:

• New Girl It's okay. Felt like Jess was sometimes made to be kind of too over-the-top. 
• Sex and the City Never seen it, but sounds like too much drama. 
• Star Trek: Next Gen. Patrick Stewart. 'nough said.
• True Detective Had to watch it for a class, not bad. Super weird, dark, and religious.

So, my options are chick-flick, MEGA chick-flick, old SciFi, or Noir? 

Question 9: What is one of your values?

Answers:

• Romance
• Creativity
• Adventure
• Friendship

All of the above? They're all good values and it isn't even asking for my top value or the highest of those listed. I don't know. Must be time for eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

Question 10: Which singer would you love to see in concert?

I'm not really into concerts, which is weird because I love music. However, there are VERY FEW artists that I love all the music for. In fact, if I look at my iPod right now other than a few artists--like Avril Lavigne (26), Basshunter (38), and Adam Lambert (48)--I have, on average, two songs per artist. 

Answers:

• Lady Gaga
• Mariah Carey
• Adele
• Rihanna

I actually almost went to a Lady Gaga concert, but just a few days before my ear drum ruptured, so for obvious health reasons, I wasn't able to go. I think, though, an Adele concert would be pretty cool to see. 

RESULT:

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" (2013)

I love that it isn't even the first in the trilogy. Honestly, I am far from surprised. A lot of the movies revolved around the Lord of the Rings franchise, so not surprised that this was the result. 

I retook it giving random answers and got The Holiday, a Romance with Jude Law and Winslet. And again, next time I got Inception, an action movie with Di Caprio and Page. The fourth time I got Pitch Perfect, a comedy with DeVine and Anna Kendrick.

This quiz would probably be more helpful if there were more expansive answer options. Or even better representatives of each of these genres. 

Did it help me decide what to watch? No. 

Actually took a second one as well that was more expansive, with probably 10 potential results or more as each question had, at least, ten responses. Though, a lot were either really vague, really similar to another answer, or very obviously connected to a particular movie. In the end, I got Fiddler on the Roof. I have seen Fiddler on the Roof and I must say...not the biggest fan. I didn't hate it. But, it is far from my favorite musical, in fact, it is preceded by Cats, Wicked, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Mamma Mia, The Book of Mormon, Rock of Ages, Evita, Grease, Sound of Music, Lion King, and Les Mis, Into the Woods, and Flashdance (based off the actual musicals, not the movie versions.)

Will I be watching it? No. What will I be watching? I'm feeling like some crime drama but like Law and Order levels of drama, not Cold Case/True Detective levels. I don't feel like watching a soap opera where they happen to be detectives, I want to watch detectives that have are well-rounded, real people.

Post 157: "The Female Point of View" on Stupid Tech

So, I was watching Shark Tank and there was an item that came up called Splikity. Basically, how it worked was that you put all your passwords into the app and then (as far as I can tell) you use the app as a browser and it automatically logs you in. Or, it communicates with the browser app you use, not 100% sure how it works really.

Either way, there were legitimate concerns about the app for security reasons that came up on the show. Like, doesn't this increase the risk of hacking? (Questions that weren't asked: who has access to the information, if it saves the info does that mean developers have access to it, if it is using the industry standard (aka the most common type that will be used and that hackers will be looking at beating) are you looking at working on improving security either by looking for better security options or having specially designed security for the app, how are you competing with the DOZENS of apps that have similar functions that are more secure, etc.)

Anyway, two of the Sharks basically shut them down when Lori chimed in with the "female point of view". That "having an app that is user-friendly would make a woman feel more comfortable" because they're "not as technological".

Now I had a problem with that for a variety of reasons, one being that I thought the app was totally stupid. And I agreed with one of the other Sharks that security is a non-gender issue. If the app isn't secure, users male and female won't be comfortable with it.

The second issue I had is the idea that it required a woman's perspective because of the ease of use. It wasn't the "female perspective" it was the "over 30 and not tech savvy" perspective. I don't want all my passwords to be saved automatically, ESPECIALLY my banking passwords. Do you know who I picture using this product? My mother. My father. My friends' parents. Lots of whom don't lock their phone or use easy codes (ex. 7890) so they don't forget. Which means if any one gets access to their phone, it will be even easier to get their personal information.

That is not secure. That does not even really require a hacker. It is like when people talk about someone hacking into their Facebook when what actually happened is they didn't log out!

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) subjects, in general, are not often associated with women. Women and girls have even pushed away from them through subtle jabs and social expectations. My father is a Mechanical Engineering professor and I've seen first hand how few female students there are compared to male students, how few female professors in these fields there are, and how people react to women when they are on tours.

I think what annoyed me was the fact that it was a woman who was making that comment. She could have said it was her perspective or a less tech-savvy person's perspective, it didn't need to be the "female point of view".

Post 156.5 : I'm a Graduate

I have officially graduated from University. I don't have much that comes to mind for things to say about the ceremony or the experience. I will make another post about it soon, for now just wanted to post the update.

Post 156: How Thunder Can Ruin a Weekend

So, my Friday was more eventful than I'd have liked. Because of it, I am currently typing this one-handed on an old laptop that is missing the 'l' key (it has the little knobby thing underneath still) and doesn't hold a charge, in PJs in a room I almost never spend time in, on a couch I find kind of uncomfortable next to my clingy, injured pooch.

My dog is scared of thunder, like most dogs. On Friday there was thunder so loud that it sent her into my bathroom to hide. My bathroom floor is, and has always been, notoriously slippery. My dog is terribly ungraceful. The two did not mix well. She slipped and fell spread-eagle on the floor hitting her back right knee on corner of the wall and her back feet as well (my bathroom kind of has a weird layout). She fell behind the door so even if she could get up the door was closed.

The fear of the thunder, being stuck on the floor, trapped in a dark room, and being in pain (bleeding from her knee, her left foot, and from her elbows and stomach from rubbing against the floor as she tried to stand caused her to defecate on the floor.

When I came home, I couldn't find her. My bathroom was the last place I'd think to look. It is where she gets baths, why would she go in there? Fear.

I ran around the house looking for her and calling for her. Then, I heard whimpering coming from my bathroom. The door opened to blood and poo smeared a cross my bathroom floor with my poor dog on top squirming trying to get up. I managed to get her up (though, it was hard because I could only open the door a few inches so I had to kneel with one arm arm under her trying to lift her up, the other trying to keep her feet from hitting the corner of the wall) and out, but it was clear she was in pain.

I called my mom. She didn't answer. I called my friend and her mom and they were an hour away, but they still came over as soon as they could, because I wanted to take her to the vet and I was a mess of tears and panic.

She calmed down when she got to her bed in the living room and had a pain pill (or two), I...didn't. I was probably just as scared as she was. My mom has said before that if she hurts her legs and cannot walk, we cannot take care of her. She is too big for us to carry her when she needs to go out and I was terrified she broke her leg or foot and that my mom would say that we have to put her to sleep. And I stayed late after work to talk with a coworker, so I was feeling guilty for being late and wondering how long she had been there and if I coming up right after work would have put me at home before she fell. And I was/am watching the house, so I was home alone and she was my responsibility as was any medical decision. And I had called my mom (3 times) and she hadn't answered. I was not in a good place.

I have said thank you quite a few times to my friend and her mom (her mom even helped me get her to the vet the next morning, since it was closed by the time I was home the night before). I don't know if they know that it was just as much the emotional support they provided as the actual help that I was thankful for.

It pretty much ruined my Friday. I didn't eat dinner until almost ten, because it took a long time to get the dog settled enough she could sleep and wasn't bleeding on the carpet. Then, I had to clean her up because she had been lying in blood and poo. Then I had to clean my bathroom floor so it didn't get stuck. Then, I had to clean myself. Then, I could eat. And then I slept on the living room couch. Or I tried. At about midnight, she started whining and panting. And so I took her out to pee, she fell when she tried to squat to pee and she couldn't get up the two steps outside our house by herself. I gave her another pain pill. At 3am, she was up and she was whining again. I barely got any sleep. And she didn't either.

That is when I decided she needed to go to the vet, for sure. I thought maybe it was the cuts causing her pain, but didn't want to risk it.

Thankfully, it was mainly just cuts and bruises. So, she is to keep off it as much as possible, but can walk on it.

It is now the third day after Friday and she is doing better. She is still unsteady on her feet. And she still limps. She whimpers when she is standing up and needs pain pills to keep from panting and hurting. But, she gets better very day.

So, we are sitting in the living room (where my desktop is not) and she is on the couch next to me and I'm wishing I knew where this old laptops 'l' key is.

Post 155: I'm Alive and Almost a Graduate

So, it dawned on me recently that I have not been on in awhile. Or rather, I've been on but have been editing old posts rather than making new ones. There are a couple reasons for that:

1. I got in the beginning of the month after I last posted and that has sporadically kept me busy. Some weeks more than others, but still cut into my free time. 
2. I am in my final semester as a University student (at the undergrad level). Yay! Graduation ceremony in early June, by the way. 
3. I started a HUGE project that has been taking up a lot more time than I had ever anticipated. Which led to....
4. A mini project that is a smaller version of the huge project. After getting like 5% into the huge project I realized I was in WAY over my head because it was something I had NEVER done before. I hadn't even done anything like it at the time and it was such a massive undertaking for my first attempt. So, I wanted to try a smaller version to see if I couldn't figure out some ways to make the MASSIVE one easier. 

What project am I talking about? Only a choose-your-own-adventure story website. And, of course, I choose horror. I mean, why would I choose the main genre that I typically write when I can choose the one that I write in the least? 

This is the link for it here. Yes, here. Just click this line if you want to check it out. 

That's the little one. The mini story. And no, it isn't complete. There is one false circuit where you can get trapped in a loop. (Yikes, not good!). And I've asked some friends and some have requested a different font color and a basement. So, still have some work to do. But, all in all, I really like how it has come along. It has been a total time suck, though. 

Now, I have my FINAL final tomorrow and work.And then I have some things on Friday that will fill up my day. And then.....FREEDOM. Well, not entirely I will still be working but all the time I am not working will not be filled with studying. 

Though, I will still be working on mini story, but I have decided to pause MASSIVE story until I get the mini story fully completed. Then I can test it out and see what people liked and didn't like for when I start "the big one". 

Anyway, I just wanted to post an update and say that I am alive, I am busy, but I will be less busy soon. 

Ta Ta!~

Post 154: Away in Denmark

I don't know if I have blogged about it before, but I am currently doing a study aboard in Denmark at the University of Copenhagen.

In order to make my blog about it more accessible to people I work with (not that they have any reason to avoid this blog other than I kind of ramble a lot) I have put the blogs and pictures from this on it's own site. And that is where I will continue to put them.

That way people don't have to sort through rants about love triangles or band aids to try to find out what is happening in Copenhagen.

HOWEVER!!!!
I will still be posting here, I will keep this post at the top of my blog so that it doesn't get lost among other posts.

AND 

I will also be posting the blog posts here at some point after my travels are over. For now, I want them all there and all the non-travel ones here.

The link for it is:
http://samanthier.wix.com/canadianindenmark

Post 153: Glow in the Dark

I love the stars. I have always loved the stars. Some of my earliest memories include looking up at the stars. One I remember vividly, though I don't know how old I was, is at my Grandmother's house in rural New York. I'm standing outside, just looking up at the stars. There were almost no lights, the city being miles and miles away, so I could see thousands of stars.

The second memory couldn't be far from that time. I'm on my way home from my grandmother's house. I'm sitting in the passenger's seat and the chair is all the way back. I'm looking out the window. And I'm watching the stars between the trees as they fly by. I remember thinking it was funny that as the trees went by in a blur, the stars didn't change position.

The reason for the title and this discussion on stars, is because I just put up glow in the dark stars on my ceiling and walls. Well, more. I had some but I got new none, cheap ones from a store. They're official glow in the dark stars. They came in a box and everything.

They glow so brighter faster. I put the light on for five minutes and the new ones glow brighter. An hour and they glow the same, but the new ones actually fade faster.

I love them. They look so cool. It is like I am in space looking around at the stars surrounding me. There are little shooting stars and nebula. There is even a crescent moon.

It is kind of funny. When I bought them, I was asked if they were a gift for a kid. They said their kid liked it. The reviews online are mostly from parents buying for their kids. When I told my mother, she scoffed.

And yet most of my friends, older and younger alike think they sound cool. It isn't like I am using them because I'm scared of the dark. In fact, I turn my lights off awhile before I go to sleep because I prefer to go to sleep when they are dark.

I think people can get too preoccupied in "kid" things and "adult" things. I mean, if I want glow in the dark stars because I love stars, then whose business is it but mine? My mom acts weirdly about playing Pokemon Go in public because she is worried someone will see her playing because it is a "teen/kid" game.

Why does it matter?

Post 152: Medium, I've got a theory.

Medium is about a medium who helps the District Attorney solve crimes. In the Pilot episode it is mere chance and an encounter with another psychic that leads to her visions. In the second episode, she doesn't get dreams the same way and has normal days without ghost trouble until she is put on a case and reads the files.

Later, the ghosts come to her. They interrupt her day and hijack her sleep. They can even take her hearing and alter her sights. Some even possess her body. It is a drastic shift.

My theory for this, which is part of my overall theory, is that she ignored them or drank them away for so long that they didn't come to her. Her whole life she was told to dismiss them. She was made to feel crazy for seeing them. So, she pretended she didn't. Like a bus with its lights off, people don't line up for it because they assume it isn't in service.

So, when she started, word spread and ghosts started to come to her more and more.

This is part of my bigger theory that the reason she is so hardcore about it, sometimes blindingly so, is out of guilt. It isn't that she is really as hardcore righteous as she acts about it, but she feels guilty about the decades where she ignored them.

I think in the back of her head she is remembering all the near-encounters and moments where she was asked for help but ignored them. The dreams she had and pretended were nothing. And all these things are making her wonder, "how many people died that I could have saved?"

And so whenever she thinks about slowing down, taking a break, or even ignoring one--the question comes back. Will someone die if I don't? Can I really let that happen again?

And I think that is why she pushed her daughter so hard in the episode where she "died". She didn't want her daughter to experience the same guilt and she wanted to alleviate some of her own guilt. But it came off as too much. Her young daughter had to walk into the darkness that she herself sometimes was horrified by as a grown adult.

I don't know if it's true. But, it does explain some of her behavior. And I can't say that I wouldn't have asked myself the same thing from time to time.

Post 151: iZombie: Problem Solved

I was rewatching iZombie while packing the other day and I cracked it. I figured out how to solve Liv's (main character and zombie) problem.

She gets scratched and turned into a zombie. After that she starts acting different and calls off her relationship with her ex and starts acting weird. Later in the season her brother is literally dying and she turns down giving him blood, because she CAN'T because it will turn him into a zombie (it will also probably out her as a zombie, when the Doctor tests her blood). Then she turns and walks out. Yes, it was dramatic but it will probably ruin her relationship with her mom until she tells her, if she tells her, she is a zombie. With Liv's luck, the mom will either be turned by someone else or be killed off before Liv can tell her.

What could have solved all of her problems and explained some of her behavior? AIDS. If something happened at the party and she got HIV, it might make sense that she chose to end it with her boyfriend. Maybe, she slept with someone (in her fake story). Or, maybe, instead of that when the attack was going on she was scratched and their blood got into hers, and since their were drugs at the party it wouldn't be totally unbelievable. So, solves that problem.

And this would explain her behavior because people would think that now she is upset and having to deal with the pressure of not knowing how people will react and what to do if they react negatively. And she is no longer as healthy and free as she used to be and she is thinking I might not be able to grow old or have kids or retire, so she starts trying new things in like a 'bucket list' sense. Which is exactly what she is dealing with in her zombie state! But people won't think she is crazy for this. And it will explain why she couldn't help her brother. 

Problem solved.

And interestingly, I don't know if they will discuss it but I think in the TV universe, zombie-ism would actually be a cure for HIV and AIDS, possibly even cancer. I mean, people on the brink of death have been saved and when Major was cured(?) his injuries from before had been healed. So if someone was turned whether that itself cures them or just allows doctors to take more radical measures where they don't have to worry about killing the patient (because they're technically already dead), when they are given the zombie cure they go back to being human but also with a clean slate of health.

I don't think this will be what they use. I think Liv and her mom will just never talk. I caught a few episodes of season 2 and saw that her friend is back and believes in her, but in neither episode was her mom mentioned. Considering she showed up or was mentioned in almost every episode of season 1, I don't think that's a good sign. 

Anyway, they can bring up the potential for zombisim if they have Liv explain things this way. Which I think would be interesting because right now they seem focused on getting rid of bad zombies and just curing the zombies there are. And that is, I'm sure a lot to deal with, but in medicine sometimes cures come from unexpected places and both she and Ravi are doctors, so hopefully one of them will think about more than just curing one problem and think about how it could cure many others. 

Post 150: What Big Picture? How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

This is a plot hole that has annoyed me for quite a long time. In the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Andy (main character) justifies her writing for a fashion and beauty magazine and basically "selling out and writing fluff pieces" (she doesn't say that exactly but implies it) is all in hopes that the editor will like her work and give her free reign to write whatever she wants.

Her idea of what she wants to write is serious, hard-hitting pieces on political and social current events. So, my question is, is she an idiot? It's the only way this idea makes any sense.

I took one and only one journalism class in University but I still know this is stupid. A main idea we discussed is 'audience'. It is important to know your audience. So how is it that someone in the industry, who supposedly went to University for this career and has an interest in it, would actually think that there was any way at all that the editor of a fashion and glamor magazine would let her write any of those kinds of articles?

People who pick up those kinds of magazines may be looking for health and dating tips, but what they are really looking for is light and casual reading. Not something that will make them think about the political turmoil people countries away are suffering. There is no way Andy would have actually thought she would get the choice to write those articles for the same magazine. Unless she was an idiot. And it does seem at first like she is thinking of it as paying her dues where she can go somewhere else with this experience but when she is talking to her boss and her boss says she has free reign with in reason for the material that fits with the magazine, she is shocked. She wouldn't have been shocked. It's a fashion magazine, not the Times. It would be like someone working at Disney being surprised when their boss said they couldn't show the kids Saw.

And what makes it seem even more ridiculous is that she has friends at the paper and clearly has worked there awhile and been in the meetings hearing topics discussed, does she really think that the reason those kinds of articles were never suggested or brought up was due to lack of interest by writers alone? How did she not realize it wouldn't fit in with the magazine?

I feel like this is simply a matter of the person writing the movie not actually having any real background knowledge of journalism and a lack of common sense in the matter OR a desperate need to make sure that she was 'different' because heaven forbid she actually enjoy writing about fashion or dating. No, no. It needed to be beneath her in order for her to be deep. I mean, it's fine for her friends, one who we rarely see or learn anything about and the other who is clingy, over-emotional, and insecure. But Andy needs to want a "serious" job. There is really no other reason her character needed to want to write about other things. It doesn't really affect the plot much. And as it is, it actually hurts the plot more than it helps.