Supernatural

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Thought I'd do a small Supernatural poll this sunday:

Poll Supernatual surveyAnd finally a question that doesn't really fit into the poll:

How does gender imbalance affect your enjoyment of a show?

Comments

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CONTAINS SPOILERS THROUGH SEASON FOUR

I find that very interesting, since I thought Ellen and Jo were pretty much the deepest female characters on the show (it's a bit like being the tallest of the seven dwarves but still). Ok, Jo had the usual SN botox lips but otherwise she got to show a bit of competence with all her damselling.

Absolutely! I liked the episode that Jo first got her hunt on, and thought they could have taken that somewhere interesting. I kind of get what Kripke meant when he decided that the Roadhouse gave the show a sense of fixed place when the Winchesters were meant to be in constant motion, but odd that the same apparently doesn't apply to Bobby's house.

I guessed that writers strike somewhat truncated Bela's arc in S3, but the whole thing was a bit of a disappointment to me. I wouldn't have minded a tricksy female nemesis, but she could have been a more competent adversary, and the handwaving of her behaviour as the result of child abuse was lamely conceived and executed.

I haven't seen any of Caprica, but I'm going to, on your rec.

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Yep, I was quite dissapointed in Bela, because I had the impression that in S3 they were really trying to insert more important and able women, but Bela ended up fairly incompetent, to the point of patheticness and when she cries for Dean's help in the end (after she never seemed to be very impressed by the brothers). I really thought it was a bit demeaning, they could have let her die with dignity.

Caprica is really good, especially where characterisation is concerned. They have extremely interesting female roles (males too of course) that feel very real and just ignore the usual stereotypes (which is extremely refreshing with the teenagers).
(And they have James Marsters written by Jane espeson :))