Dear listies:
What are your thoughts on White Collar? I tend to like detective series and spy shows, as long as they don't end up procedurals (The Inside and Bones are the only real exceptions, and The Inside is almost more of a character piece, and Bones always reminds me more of an old bickering detectives drama and the fake forensics involve
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Is it a feminist show? No, the main characters are men, and I don't see that ever changing. The thing is, I can enjoy that just as much as I can enjoy a show built equally "lopsidedly" around women, or a show with a more balanced cast in terms of gender and focus, so you need to factor that into my opinion. Everybody's got different buttons, and I can definitely see how the show would bug someone whose buttons differ from mine.
Oh, and I'm not a slasher, so fwiw, that has nothing to do with my enjoyment. In fact, given Peter's strong marriage, the slash just looks forced to me.
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I...get the feeling that this is one of those fandoms where half is "slash slash slash just because there are attractive white men," and the ones who may slash, but aren't in it for that, and also prefer women to be in their fiction, even if not always the focus. Slash/not slash here seems a lot like Mad Men, where I don't know anyone who slashes (or at least identifies it as part of their enjoyment) but others report it as a "slash fandom."
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And I liked that they brought back Marsha Thomason's character for season 2, but I was a bit weirded out that Natalie Morales' character just disappeared. I didn't know they just fired her without really telling her anything. Very crappy.
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