I find it fascinating that people hate characters for what they do as if they are real people. I was thinking specifically of Gwen from Torchwood. I mentioned that I hated her as a character because she was written one way (cop) and she was written as a Mary Sue who can't seem to stop remorseless killers from running on her knife or press the
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Calling a lead female a Mary-Sue (a catch-all term used to justify lady hate, generally) because everyone falls in love with her (even though Rhys and debatably Jack are the only ones that do)? Check.
'Bland Asian' (how nice to identify a character by just their race)? Check
(Also Gwen and Tosh are awesome.)
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But the main point is that hating a character for her actions is stupid (invoking Livia and Janice Soprano for that) but hating her because the writers never seem to know what to do with her except have her cry and get called the most beautiful woman in the world points to a sad misogyny within the show itself.
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Nice try, though, I'm one of the mods, you've been banned.
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Same way with Sherlock's second episode giving us the Magical Asian which is a subset of the Magical Negro (and why I'm looking forward to Elementary having Lucy Liu playing Watson)
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Funny, how conveniently you ignore how Owen slept with Gwen or Andy's admitted crush on Gwen. It isn't simply Rhys and "debatably" Jack that have some form of attraction to Gwen.
Also Gwen and Tosh are awesome.
I'll certainly agree that Tosh is awesome.
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