Neil Gaiman has said that season 2 is not the story he and Terry had plotted out 20 years ago, season 2 is the bridge that needed to be there to fill in the gaps between season 1 and season 3
So in other words. Season 2 is a bridge season. Season 3 is the season with actual meat in it
So we better work hard to get that season 3. I swear to god Amazon. Pay your fucking writers
Good Omens 2 was like reading a 100k fanfic in the middle of the night that you realize was left unfinished and last updated 5 years ago, and you are left alone with this earth-shattering cliffhanger
When Barbie had doubts about her purpose and her place in the world, she didn’t hurt anybody. She went on a journey of discovery, made friends, cried, broke down, and got back up again.
When Ken had doubts about his purpose and his place in the world, he stole everything the woman he supposedly loved worked hard for, actively demoralized and devalued her, and brought other people down to lift himself up.
And still, in the end, Barbie was the one who felt like she should apologize. Because that’s what it is to be a woman.
Probably the most poignant thing in the Barbie movie was when the Kens call for a vote to change the Barbieland Constitution in 48 hours and the Barbies go “you can’t just undo decades of progress in 2 days like that!” and it really hit me in the face because it mirrors exactly what’s happening in the US with the overturning of Roe v. Wade and potentially other Supreme Court cases in the near future, what little progress we’ve made in our own society over the past century really can be rolled back in a matter of days and that’s fucking scary to think about
Ken was more than an antagonist/villain but a representation/metaphor for all the sweet boys in our lives who eventually grew up to be misogynistic men. Who take more than they’ll ever give. They are the boys who felt under-appreciated and unloved and found validation from Andrew Tate podcasts.
A lot of women if not all can relate to that on some level. Son. Brother. Friend. Cousin. Nephew. Uncle. It happens so much more than we want to think about. It’s so prevalent and sad that despite everything Ken did, Barbie apologized to him and received no apology in return.
Barbie Land was far kinder than Kendom. The Barbies were dismissive about the Kens, yes, but they were always treated kindly and with some decorum. Kendom literally made the Barbies their servants designed to cater to their every whim. Just look at that. And even then, Barbie apologized. President Barbie gave them a (admittedly low) position in the courts as a token of good will. A fairly realistic take right there but so sad considering the harm they’d done.
He stole her dreamhouse. He stole Barbie’s dreamhouse. And she apologized for hurting him.
The Barbie movie isn’t about girl power. It’s not about how women can do everything they set their mind to. It’s about how sometimes women are tired and average and that has to be okay too, because you don’t have to do everything to be worth anything. (And that this is also true of men.)
the thing that gets me about about barbie is that barbie land wasn’t even purposefully a matriarchy, barbie land came about because of the way little girls were playing with their barbies, it wasn’t created by mattel it was created by the people using the toys, so the fact that the barbies ignored the ken’s and had girls night every night wasn’t because they had some bias against him, it was just an accurate depiction of how kids play with barbies. I had some ken dolls as a child and they were essential to the plot in the sense that of course my barbie has a boyfriend because that represented the world i saw around me, but also he didn’t have any purpose in my dream world because i was only interested in what the girls were doing because they represented me and how i wanted to be, I wanted girls night every night I wanted the girls to be president and austronauts and not because of some inherent feminist idea but because I was a girl and I wasn’t thinking about boys, ken was an accessory. this movie wasn’t made to change the world but it showed a different perspective than what we usually see which I thought was fun. Men don’t have to be the centre of all our stories and its not even because we hate them, sometimes we’re just not thinking about them
