Yes, that's such a good point -- there was a simplistic view, of the Evil German General as the big bad; the truth was thematically much, much stronger: that there is good and evil in all of us, and it depends on what we believe, and what we fight for then.
Diana is characterised as naive, but she's not stupid. She's portrayed as an innocent about 'Man's World', but she's not an idiot
Yes! I had to stop reading the Percy Jackson books, because Percy is such a dunce; I cannot deal with dumb characters, or characters who have trouble grasping the realities of their world. Diana is not such a character -- she's new, sure, but she gets it.
his nude bathing scene
Hey, I LOVED THAT SCENE. But I'm v. fond of The Pine, so there's that.
very female and feminine in all the ways that our gender separated society generally won't acknowledge: tough and enduring, hard and encouraging, proud and with that touch of arrogant certainty
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Yes, that's such a good point -- there was a simplistic view, of the Evil German General as the big bad; the truth was thematically much, much stronger: that there is good and evil in all of us, and it depends on what we believe, and what we fight for then.
Yes! I had to stop reading the Percy Jackson books, because Percy is such a dunce; I cannot deal with dumb characters, or characters who have trouble grasping the realities of their world. Diana is not such a character -- she's new, sure, but she gets it.
Hey, I LOVED THAT SCENE. But I'm v. fond of The Pine, so there's that.
Mmh. They were A+mazing.