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Pose viewers already know the grim contents of the trunk stinking up Elektra’s closet. Having already loaded the chamber of this Chekhov’s gun, in lieu of a reveal, the writers wisely pivoted to a story about the history of the House of Abundance.
In the rush of a flash-forwarding final season, it’s good to see the show taking time to give one of the series’ enduring mysteries and most fascinating real-life inspirations proper closure.
It’s also a great excuse to give Dominique Jackson’s Elektra an extended showcase. Jackson always had a powerful presence on the screen, but this was some of her most vulnerable work in a series punctuated with so many fierce moments.
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The Disneyland community has been rocked by controversy this past week ever since the park unveiled a redesigned version of classic ride Snow White’s Scary Adventure, replacing it with a more technologically advanced version called Snow White’s Enchanted Wish. The problem, though (as laid out by Katie Dowd and Julie Tremaine in a piece for
SFGate), is that rather than ending with the dramatic death of the Evil Queen, like in the original version of the ride, it now ends with the Prince kissing the sleeping Snow White as in the non-consensual “true love’s kiss” that only one person involved in is even aware of, a.k.a. the thing that makes the original movie problematic. Unlike the “‘wokeness’ is ruining Disney World” bullshit, it’s sort of like if Disney had replaced Splash Mountain with a second
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TERRENCE K. WILLIAMS, COMEDIAN: You know, listen. I really think this is a liberal thing. OK?
GUTFELD: OK.
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In the midst of the constant flood of national and international news, you may have missed this story. There is a problem with Disneylandâs new Snow White ride. A big problem. A really big problem.
Michael Brown holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a professor at a number of seminaries. He is the author of 25 books and hosts the nationally syndicated, daily talk radio show, the Line of Fire.
As reported on the SF Gate website, âThe new grand finale of Snow White s Enchanted Wish is the moment when the Prince finds Snow White asleep under the Evil Queen s spell and gives her âtrue love s kissâ to release her from the enchantment. A kiss he gives to her without her consent, while she s asleep, whichÂ
Snow White and the dwarves in the 1938 Disney version
It’s a tale as old as Twitter. Disneyland’s new Snow White ride, which reopened this month after a year of Covid shutdown, faces criticism for its non-consensual kiss between Snow White and Prince Charming.
Snow White’s Enchanted Wish is a reimagining of Snow White’s Scary Adventures, one of the park’s inaugural rides when it opened in 1955. And it retains many elements of the original: visitors clunk along in minecarts in front of scenes from the film, recreated with jazzy LED projections, lazers and herky-jerky animatronics.
But this faithfulness to Walt Disney’s 1938 film is precisely the problem, according to theme park reviewers, Julie Tremaine and Katy Dowd. “The attraction preserves much of the charm of what was originally opened,” they wrote on SFGate. “[But] it also adds in the movie’s biggest problem.”