I can see why you'd be excited. Smart and sexy and doesn't take crap is attractive to me, too. Pity she didn't show :-(
Holy shit, I cannot start fanning The National....
Don't worry, there are too many stupid things about it to fan it completely. (Husband and I have given to chirping "And there's a Canadian connection!" at odd moments because we've heard it on The National so regularly.)
This is where I don't say anything about my imaginary Evan Solomon/Mark Kelley RPF...
I, too, was pissed about the insecure Maldonado episode, but was so because it felt OOC and not for the deeper feminist reasons that you pointed out. Now I'm angry all over again.
Yeah, the first thing was that it was outrageously OOC (that was not Maldonado), but it was just - so deeply insulting all round, too.
Stahl is tiresome as she's been written so far. They hint and hint at more complex motivation, but just don't show it, and... meh, tease me too long and I get fed up. So I'm with you, please remove her and pop in a female character with some colour to her personality. (I wish they'd done a female Rudy, you know? The geek-scientist-funny-creepy-person doesn't always have to be a guy.)
Dorian is a man[droid] of many powers and I hope they show us many more of them. But so far van-flipping is the most awesome. *nods*
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Date: 2014-04-06 08:05 am (UTC)Holy shit, I cannot start fanning The National....
Don't worry, there are too many stupid things about it to fan it completely. (Husband and I have given to chirping "And there's a Canadian connection!" at odd moments because we've heard it on The National so regularly.)
This is where I don't say anything about my imaginary Evan Solomon/Mark Kelley RPF...I, too, was pissed about the insecure Maldonado episode, but was so because it felt OOC and not for the deeper feminist reasons that you pointed out. Now I'm angry all over again.
Yeah, the first thing was that it was outrageously OOC (that was not Maldonado), but it was just - so deeply insulting all round, too.
Stahl is tiresome as she's been written so far. They hint and hint at more complex motivation, but just don't show it, and... meh, tease me too long and I get fed up. So I'm with you, please remove her and pop in a female character with some colour to her personality. (I wish they'd done a female Rudy, you know? The geek-scientist-funny-creepy-person doesn't always have to be a guy.)
Dorian is a man[droid] of many powers and I hope they show us many more of them. But so far van-flipping is the most awesome. *nods*