#dania ramirez

Rest In Peace, Eric Dane

I think it’s not bad! The only thing about this season I’ve truly never been able to get behind is Ella and Henry. I just don’t care about their romance, and the actress for Jacinda is… not doing a great job in this role. ALSO, VIOLET WAS SO CUTE! I’m a violetbeliever shipper over glassbeliever always.

Maybe he got hold of a magic bean and skipped realm. Ended up in the New Enchanted Forest/Magical Forest. Met Cecelia and had Ella.

I do think that Giancarlo and Dania look alike. In that great casting by ouat sort of way.

Though my preferred version would be if the Wish Realm version of the Genie of Agrabah/Magic Mirror were Ella's father. The Wish Hook and Alice storyline already establishes that a Wish Realm character can get to the NEF pretty easily. So maybe, Wish Genie/Mirror got freed from the mirror around the time Wish Snow and Wish Charming defeated Wish Evil Queen. He then goes to the NEF. Etc. Etc.

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019, Jake Kasdan)

Heroes is the first place that I saw Tawny Cypress, Dana Davis,Dania Ramirez, Tiffany Hines, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Candice Patton, Christine Adams, Paula Newsome, and Ayla Rose Barreau. Some of those, I didn't realize until making this list, but most of them, my brain collected them in these small parts from what was at the time my favorite show, despite not having much of anything in the way of Black female representation.

(The follow up was even worse. Not because there weren't any, but because it was not nearly as good of a show and the representation I remember was abysmal. I only watched it once and remember MAYBE 2 of the Black women)

This post is not a watchlist recommendation.

The Black representation was not good, but also, for its time was... well, it was a lot compared to what we usually got. Not to be an old lady, but y'all have no idea how good y'all have it these days. Scifi, Fantasy, Horror, etc (anything with superpowers or supernatural forces you only got a small pocket of Black characters and they got minimal screen time or secondary plotlines).

I appreciated Heroes. Like I said, it was one of my favorite shows and introduced me to a few of my favorite ladies. I discovered this show during a hurricane displacement in which I was out of work, went to a Hollywood Video and got the first season to catch up and the rest of it I watched in progress for the years it ran. I had some fandom friends. I found a longtime fave in the main antagonist. Some really great ideas were there, but the strike and behind the scenes things really made it... not what it could be.

It is the Heroes Anniversary today. (I thought it was the 20 year, but it is actually the 19 year. I was gonna queue this for next year, but at the rate I am going, idk that I'll be here). Happy Heroes Day, though. I loved Heroes. I don't know that I would love it today, and I haven't rewatched it since the return Heroes Reborn was created in 2015. Baby I did not like it.

I have been thinking of rewatching Heroes. I might, if only just to see how much I've changed in 20 19 years!