We Love the Women That Fandom Hates- Day 2

[fauxkaren]

For those of you concerned about how spoilery these metas are: today's Catelyn meta contains spoilers up through A Feast for Crows, the Cordelia meta is specifically spoilery for episode 3x06 "Billy" of Angel but generally for her whole are, and the Rose meta is spoilery through 2x01 "New Earth".

Comments

[sa_da_ko]

1. Most people in the Buffyverse don’t take Cordelia very seriously. Throughout her time on Buffy, the Scoobies never really saw her as one of them. She was always a bit of an outsider and that silly popular girl.
Exactly. In 3x08, after they got their SAT results everyone seems genuinely surprised that Cordelia get so many points. And this is quite far into the show, when, logically, they should already knew better.

In the scene you choosed she is amazingly complex and shows almost everything I like her for: she still is Cordelia, the School Queen, who knows everything about fashion but she is also so much more. And women solidarity here is <333 (I love that kind of scenes, and this one is special, because it solidarity between enemies).

2. For what I know, realtionship between Catelyn and Brienne must be really interesting. Sadly, I've read only two first books so I don't have whole picture of it, but it looks promising. Yay for women friendship and yay for breaking cultural canons with it :)

3. I really like Rose for being always a fighter, not a martyr. No matter circumstances, she fights - with the help of big yellow truck, in alternate universe, every time she sees the need. Not giving up is so great part of her character :)

[fauxkaren]

"Billy" in general is a fabulous episode for Cordelia, and that scene is just like perfection because you can see how much Cordy has grown and yet she is still completely herself. Such flawless character growth.