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Thoughts on a tgimf.
Feb. 12th, 2010 07:27 am1. I keep meaning to say this and forgetting: one of the things about Sanctuary that I sort of approve of is the whole "older woman mentors younger boy" thing. You don't see it often. In fact, the only other time I remember seeing it is in Animaniacs. Slappy Squirrel and Skippy. Which then leads me to the far happier thought of Helen Magnus mentoring Skippy (and Will getting blown up by Slappy a lot).
It would sort of be like Seven and Ace, but gender-swapped and without the time travel. Probably.
2. I tried to listen to some 4.5 BSG earlier in the week, and my immediate loathing and inability to enjoy it leads me to one conclusion: 4.5 was really shit.
3. Having run out of Nero Wolfebut being lazy and not having bundled and mu'd it, I did the unthinkable and ripped Peacekeeper Wars last night. I may not have a brain after work (I'm taking Self-Inflicted Wounds, too) [That's Farscape, for those O.o ing]
4. There is a trope I loathe, if that's what it can be called. It was sort of obliquely touched upon in f!s last night, where people were talking about why they don't like what the writers on Bones are doing to her character.
It's this: the idea that a woman has to fix herself so she can be with a man. In Bones, Brennan has to get over her issues so she can become Booth's ideal woman (there's never any inference that he is wrong and has to change his worldview for her). In NCIS, Ziva has to become a more docile, womanly-girly-girl to be Tony's kind of woman (she rarely gets to win in joke/argument contests these days). In BSG, Kara has to fix herself so she can be with Lee (or Sam, though canon rarely showed us Sam telling her she was a screw-up, and Collaborators was supposed to be Trucco's last episode). In In Plain Sight Mary has to get over her issues so she can be with Marshall or Raph (as much as I like Raph, he does sort of see her as someone she's not--and she returns the favor, not really knowing him, either).
Those are not the only examples, I'm fairly certain I could go on for pages. Sometimes, it's the fandom that puts this idea out there. But usually, it's the canon. These flawed women aren't good enough to catch a man, so they should fix themselves. Because catching a man is the only goal they should have.
And there should never be a man who has to fix himself for a woman.
Well. Maybe Leverage will screw that trope over, too.
It would sort of be like Seven and Ace, but gender-swapped and without the time travel. Probably.
2. I tried to listen to some 4.5 BSG earlier in the week, and my immediate loathing and inability to enjoy it leads me to one conclusion: 4.5 was really shit.
3. Having run out of Nero Wolfe
4. There is a trope I loathe, if that's what it can be called. It was sort of obliquely touched upon in f!s last night, where people were talking about why they don't like what the writers on Bones are doing to her character.
It's this: the idea that a woman has to fix herself so she can be with a man. In Bones, Brennan has to get over her issues so she can become Booth's ideal woman (there's never any inference that he is wrong and has to change his worldview for her). In NCIS, Ziva has to become a more docile, womanly-girly-girl to be Tony's kind of woman (she rarely gets to win in joke/argument contests these days). In BSG, Kara has to fix herself so she can be with Lee (or Sam, though canon rarely showed us Sam telling her she was a screw-up, and Collaborators was supposed to be Trucco's last episode). In In Plain Sight Mary has to get over her issues so she can be with Marshall or Raph (as much as I like Raph, he does sort of see her as someone she's not--and she returns the favor, not really knowing him, either).
Those are not the only examples, I'm fairly certain I could go on for pages. Sometimes, it's the fandom that puts this idea out there. But usually, it's the canon. These flawed women aren't good enough to catch a man, so they should fix themselves. Because catching a man is the only goal they should have.
And there should never be a man who has to fix himself for a woman.
Well. Maybe Leverage will screw that trope over, too.
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