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[strangemuses]

Hello world. Sorry I've been away so long. Life events over the last year and half left me feeling more than normally reclusive. Dropping off the map for a (long) while has helped me to heal a lot, but now I need to reconnect with the world. If anyone's reading this... hi

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[strangemuses]

POI is a frustratingly erratic show. S1 was moody. S2 turned into a typical (and extremely boring IMO) CBS buddy police show. I'm glad Carter is gone. They wrote her into a corner and left her no where to actually go on the show. The entire 'HR' storyline bored me senseless. I wish they'd get rid of Fusco too, but I appreciate that he's a convenient plot device because they need quick, handwavy access to police information. If I saw one more minute of Finch moping over Grace (a character I actually liked), I was ready to bash in my tv. I actually stopped watching it for a while but started up again this season when they amped up Root's role in the show and added the Shaw character. There was a huge amount of fan bitching about both of those characters, but IMO the show needed both to grow the scope and give the writers more room to advance the story. Root adds a necessary cyberpunk element, and Shaw ties in to the 'relevant' side of the Machine and is a hook to that side of the POI world.

I find I can enjoy the show far more if I avoid 95% of the online fandom so I've blocked all of the POI related tags on Tumblr. I'm always happy to discuss the show's plots and overall worldview, but I've no interest at all in shipping wars or debates about icky female characters taking screen time away from the boys (something I see repeated in every single fandom ever).

[semyaza]

The writers knew from the start that Carter would be leaving the series so if they wrote her into a corner it was purposeful. I like Shaw. I must have missed the bitching. All I saw - and I avoid fandom on Tumblr except when I'm in the mood to be irked - were the complaints about the death of Carter, 'the only WoC in the show'. Erm, Shaw?

[strangemuses]

A lot of viewers seem oblivious that Shaw is also a WoC.

I think there was a lot of understandable sadness that a black female leading character was killed because it's still so difficult for minority women to get leading roles in Hollywood. The entertainment industry does have a bad track record for killing off their minority characters.