Jessica Lee and Rosanne Carlo
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Your response brings up an
Your response brings up an important point that the mother-daughter dynamic between Dorothy and Sophia is not always reversed. The characters in The Golden Girls are complex, just in real life, and thus take on several roles given the situations they are ... -
Great, observation Thomas.
Great, observation Thomas. We’ve also talked about Rose’s employment as an issue related to aging in the show. We recently watched “Job Hunting” from the first season of the series, when the grief center Rose is employed at closes. This episode presents a ... -
Thanks for bringing this up.
Thanks for bringing this up. Sophia’s agency is something we also wanted to address in our clip, but ultimately didn’t have space enough to do so. In our clip’s episode, Sophia defies Dorothy by leaving the house and going back to the daycare center to be ... -
Empowerment
We had a good laugh re-watching this clip.:) This scene brings to mind one of our favorite things about The Golden Girls: the way in which the show empowers women to seek out their own desires, whether it be the food they eat (cheesecake!), the men they l ... -
Re: Archetypal Characters and their Narrative Function: Iron Maiden, the Consciousness Raising Character
Sitcom conventions
We appreciate this analysis because it accurately represents the genre of the sitcom, in particular, the constraint of its typical 30-minute conflict-resolution, which sometimes relies on the archetype. The clip that you chose is an excellent demonstratio ... -
Identification across difference
We’re really interested in the point you made about gay male identification with Blanche, particularly how identification can happen across difference. Why would gay men identify with an older heterosexual female? This excerpt actually brought to mind a y ...