Kickass angsty women and the spunky Ukrainian girls who love them
Just started watching Nikita and Lost Girl. Both are a little B-grade but also have stuff you just don't see in tv normally. (nb these are my initial opinions, which may change later)
They have competent sensible slightly woobieish kickass female leads in their late twenties(*) who have been given their deadly abilities without their will(**) but refuse to be pushed around by the powerful forces that put them in that position. The secondary lead is a spunky Ukranian girl from the wrong side of the tracks(***).
Nikita is about an escapee from a secret government organisation that forces young unwanted people into becoming assassins. It is very stylish, I haven't seen the original but it reminds me a bit of the Pretender with the whole "I am on the run from you, evil organisation, but also taunting you and bringing you down" thing. Not entirely my sort of thing but watchable, Cam ADORES it because he loves assassins. Also, the main character is Asian which is a nice change (plus Maggie Q is awesome).
Lot Girl is about a succubus. Which sounds dodgy (EDIT: Ok, sometimes is dodgy), but basically it takes the whole "angsty vampire with bloodlust as a creepy metaphor for sex" trope and takes out the blood. And makes the lead a woman. A BISEXUAL woman. With a girl sidekick who she is adorably femslashy with, AS WELL AS a CANON female love interest. (And a male love interest who is ok) It has a refreshingly sensible Canadian attitude to sex, rather than the US model of "Sex is violent and dirty lets ignore it"/"YAY FOR THE VIOLENT DIRTINESS OF SEX" (eg True Blood) it's just this thing that people do sometimes.
Also, I am playing Echo Bazaar. It's a silly-but-witty browser text based RPG like Kingdom of Loathing, but with a Lovecraftian steampunky setting plus a commitment to diversity. Lots of fun. I am playing a person of indeterminate gender who has written 400 stanzas about mushrooms, seduced an artist and his model, and is currently trying to find a devil that has absconded from Hell. There is apparently a social aspect but I haven't figured that out yet.
(*) Interestingly, the actresses are in their thirties.
(**) There are male superpowered characters who angst about their powers and wish for a Normal Life, but it does seem to happen more consistently to women :/
(***) Admitedly, in one case it's the actress and the other it's the character, but as the descendant of working class Ukrainian immigrants to North America I'm counting them both.
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They have competent sensible slightly woobieish kickass female leads in their late twenties(*) who have been given their deadly abilities without their will(**) but refuse to be pushed around by the powerful forces that put them in that position. The secondary lead is a spunky Ukranian girl from the wrong side of the tracks(***).
Nikita is about an escapee from a secret government organisation that forces young unwanted people into becoming assassins. It is very stylish, I haven't seen the original but it reminds me a bit of the Pretender with the whole "I am on the run from you, evil organisation, but also taunting you and bringing you down" thing. Not entirely my sort of thing but watchable, Cam ADORES it because he loves assassins. Also, the main character is Asian which is a nice change (plus Maggie Q is awesome).
Lot Girl is about a succubus. Which sounds dodgy (EDIT: Ok, sometimes is dodgy), but basically it takes the whole "angsty vampire with bloodlust as a creepy metaphor for sex" trope and takes out the blood. And makes the lead a woman. A BISEXUAL woman. With a girl sidekick who she is adorably femslashy with, AS WELL AS a CANON female love interest. (And a male love interest who is ok) It has a refreshingly sensible Canadian attitude to sex, rather than the US model of "Sex is violent and dirty lets ignore it"/"YAY FOR THE VIOLENT DIRTINESS OF SEX" (eg True Blood) it's just this thing that people do sometimes.
Also, I am playing Echo Bazaar. It's a silly-but-witty browser text based RPG like Kingdom of Loathing, but with a Lovecraftian steampunky setting plus a commitment to diversity. Lots of fun. I am playing a person of indeterminate gender who has written 400 stanzas about mushrooms, seduced an artist and his model, and is currently trying to find a devil that has absconded from Hell. There is apparently a social aspect but I haven't figured that out yet.
(*) Interestingly, the actresses are in their thirties.
(**) There are male superpowered characters who angst about their powers and wish for a Normal Life, but it does seem to happen more consistently to women :/
(***) Admitedly, in one case it's the actress and the other it's the character, but as the descendant of working class Ukrainian immigrants to North America I'm counting them both.
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