Character thoughts about Kiera after watching 2X01 of Continuum
I have to get back into the habit of posting my fandom stuff on LJ. I tend to go the Tumblr route of late, which is great for my guiltier pleasures (Vampire Diaries, anyone?) but not as satisfying for my other fandom loves beyond gifsets (Doctor Who, Highlander & Continuum)
Let me tell you about my gleeful reaction to the return of Continuum for another season on Showcase - oh, how I missed my Sci-Fi show - but it is one simple thing that made me want to write about this show rather than just watch, and that is the nature of its main protagonist, Kiera. Last week, I reblogged a comment on Tumblr made by Natalie Dormer about the portrayal of women in fiction.
“Men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. a woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel. that sensibility is prevalent, even to this day.”
It's a very valid point, even in modern television, so when an exception to the rule turns up on my TV screen, I feel the need to comment on it! It's a rather delicious experience to follow a female protagonist that's allowed to have flaws without being vilified for it. Here is a character who is coming apart at the seams while still trying to project an untouchable persona, who clearly loves her family and wants to get back to them and yet can’t stop herself from literally sleeping with the enemy, because in this strange new land called the past, her enemies are the only ones who get her. She’s driven and ruthless and more than a little broken at this stage, and yet she keeps on going in the hope she’ll see her husband and son.
Throw in the implications of the opening scene, in which she wakes up from a nightmare of being being imprisoned and drugged (Was it a memory or was it a side effect?) and the very telling look her husband gave out the window after Kiera mentions that something may have gone wrong with the chip. (He knows the chip is hackable and he still let her put it in? Best case scenario, he’s a sleaze.) and the picture becomes even darker.
I’m loving this, I really am!
Let me tell you about my gleeful reaction to the return of Continuum for another season on Showcase - oh, how I missed my Sci-Fi show - but it is one simple thing that made me want to write about this show rather than just watch, and that is the nature of its main protagonist, Kiera. Last week, I reblogged a comment on Tumblr made by Natalie Dormer about the portrayal of women in fiction.
“Men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. a woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel. that sensibility is prevalent, even to this day.”
It's a very valid point, even in modern television, so when an exception to the rule turns up on my TV screen, I feel the need to comment on it! It's a rather delicious experience to follow a female protagonist that's allowed to have flaws without being vilified for it. Here is a character who is coming apart at the seams while still trying to project an untouchable persona, who clearly loves her family and wants to get back to them and yet can’t stop herself from literally sleeping with the enemy, because in this strange new land called the past, her enemies are the only ones who get her. She’s driven and ruthless and more than a little broken at this stage, and yet she keeps on going in the hope she’ll see her husband and son.
Throw in the implications of the opening scene, in which she wakes up from a nightmare of being being imprisoned and drugged (Was it a memory or was it a side effect?) and the very telling look her husband gave out the window after Kiera mentions that something may have gone wrong with the chip. (He knows the chip is hackable and he still let her put it in? Best case scenario, he’s a sleaze.) and the picture becomes even darker.
I’m loving this, I really am!