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I feel extremely cynical regarding television shows right now. I'm not into slash, boylove, manlove, male friendship, or incest. I don't really have an interest in femmeslash, although I do like the female characters.
However, my interest in female characters tends to be limited to those who are physically kickass but emotionally grounded and competent (whether by explication or intimation): Teyla, Wonder Woman, Brennan. Okay, so Brennan's grounding isn't so much emotional as logical, but if she's not well-adjusted, she's stable.
This also goes a long way towards explaining my adoration of Faith Lehane - but only after she does her time in prison. Sure, she's still a loose cannon, but she's got her grounding; when Wesley questions her, challenges her in Salvage (Angel S4) she can act as she needs to, but she doesn't just react - she thinks through what she's learned and applies the emotional and psychological breaks. Of course, this is Faith - if she didn't run a leetle wild, I'd be disappointed.
I've been watching Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and quite enjoying it, although I'd like it more if Cameron was a bit less of a terminator and a bit more socially on the ball. I haven't gotten to the John's love interest storyline (love interest?) so I haven't formed an opinion of her. And much as I love Sarah's kickassness, I'm not sure about her, possibly because she comes with the movie baggage. I've always thought of Sarah as walking on the fringe of sanity - how could you not after having your world turned upside down the way she did?
I've yet to see more of Sanctuary, but Ashley didn't make much of an impact in the episodes I've seen her in. I'd like her if they'd do something with her, but the focus seems mostly on Helen and Will.
Eureka is fun, but it doesn't really draw me in: I do love Jo (and Zane) and Allison, but... I don't know. Eureka is missing something - that one ingredient that would tip my balance and catapult me in.
And although I have a fondness for Kara Thrace, she's too much like pre-redemption Faith: a loose cannon. Maybe if Dee had been more present in the show (as far as I've watched), I wouldn't have fallen out of interest in BSG quite so fast. I don't know. At least with BSG, the plot writing is tight, even if they soap opera the characters all over the shop.
I think the reason I've stuck with Teyla so long is because she had all the possibilities of a woman, without needing to have the Earth-based hang-ups that stratify. There were intimations that she didn't follow the Earth-woman rules: showing skin but not being overtly sexual or even particularly sensual, assuming that she's good enough to play with the boys instead of questioning whether she was, leading her people in a less hierarchically-oriented way (as Elizabeth had to several times in the first season) and in more of a social/group/community manner.
I love the character and the possibility, and more than anything else, I think I'm disappointed that so few people out there saw this possibility, let alone exploited it in their stories.
However, my interest in female characters tends to be limited to those who are physically kickass but emotionally grounded and competent (whether by explication or intimation): Teyla, Wonder Woman, Brennan. Okay, so Brennan's grounding isn't so much emotional as logical, but if she's not well-adjusted, she's stable.
This also goes a long way towards explaining my adoration of Faith Lehane - but only after she does her time in prison. Sure, she's still a loose cannon, but she's got her grounding; when Wesley questions her, challenges her in Salvage (Angel S4) she can act as she needs to, but she doesn't just react - she thinks through what she's learned and applies the emotional and psychological breaks. Of course, this is Faith - if she didn't run a leetle wild, I'd be disappointed.
I've been watching Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and quite enjoying it, although I'd like it more if Cameron was a bit less of a terminator and a bit more socially on the ball. I haven't gotten to the John's love interest storyline (love interest?) so I haven't formed an opinion of her. And much as I love Sarah's kickassness, I'm not sure about her, possibly because she comes with the movie baggage. I've always thought of Sarah as walking on the fringe of sanity - how could you not after having your world turned upside down the way she did?
I've yet to see more of Sanctuary, but Ashley didn't make much of an impact in the episodes I've seen her in. I'd like her if they'd do something with her, but the focus seems mostly on Helen and Will.
Eureka is fun, but it doesn't really draw me in: I do love Jo (and Zane) and Allison, but... I don't know. Eureka is missing something - that one ingredient that would tip my balance and catapult me in.
And although I have a fondness for Kara Thrace, she's too much like pre-redemption Faith: a loose cannon. Maybe if Dee had been more present in the show (as far as I've watched), I wouldn't have fallen out of interest in BSG quite so fast. I don't know. At least with BSG, the plot writing is tight, even if they soap opera the characters all over the shop.
I think the reason I've stuck with Teyla so long is because she had all the possibilities of a woman, without needing to have the Earth-based hang-ups that stratify. There were intimations that she didn't follow the Earth-woman rules: showing skin but not being overtly sexual or even particularly sensual, assuming that she's good enough to play with the boys instead of questioning whether she was, leading her people in a less hierarchically-oriented way (as Elizabeth had to several times in the first season) and in more of a social/group/community manner.
I love the character and the possibility, and more than anything else, I think I'm disappointed that so few people out there saw this possibility, let alone exploited it in their stories.
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And I see what you're saying. The type I'm describing is the type that looks like me. That is, perhaps not surprisingly, the type that I'm attracted to (which I think indicates a greater love for myself than I sometimes am aware) as well as the type I aspire to be like.
Having made that connection between my "type" and my own appearance is one of the things that helped me understand why it is important to have role models who look like oneself--role models for intelligence, for strength, for decisiveness, for raw power, for perseverence, for leadership, etc.--and not just role models who look like someone else, either by race, gender, appearance, etc.
I did see Empress Hoshi Sato in my head...but that moment of Total Awesome (totally awesome evil, of course...*sigh*) was largely negated by the whole Captain's Woman thing that was so annoying from the other Mirror universe stuff.
I agree that baby steps are better than no steps, but also that there need to be more than baby steps and that folks who can need to be more and more prodded to make larger and larger steps. I have no answers. There are just so FEW and that is so wrong (like you don't know that! duh!).