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I Told You To Be Balanced, And I Told You To Be Fine (a TVD 4x15 meta)

Feb 24, 2013 12:15

This is a longish meta-shaped review. Of a chaotic emo variety. I just need to get all those thoughts out because I haven't really been up to any fandom discussions lately. Somehow fandom discussions aren't as much fun as they used to be. Possibly because I'm a headcase ( Read more... )

note to self: less talk, fictional vampires ruin my life, tvd fandom is the worst, yes i'm always like that, elena gilbert is amazing, fandom: the vampire diaries, maggie understands me, emmie is wise, brb dying, too many emotions, fuck you i like it, meta, i fail at fandom, shame is redundant, how unfortunate, antonia overanalyzes teen vampire shows

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novin_ha February 24 2013, 18:03:24 UTC

Of course women can't be dark, even if they have good reason.

I agree with your point, but I don't think there are no morally-ambiguous female protagonists. Women obviously can be ambiguous or evil when it's not their story, but there are examples of women being deeply flawed and having less-than-stellar-morality storylines on television, right now (and that's even disregarding soaps, which have a long history of that). It's true we don't have a female Dexter, but we do have a female House (albeit more likable one, i.e. Nurse Jackie) and Scandal is one example of a female protagonist who does evil things while being likable and (only) intermittently good - and of the audience rushing to excuse her. Admittedly, they rush to excuse the male character much more eagerly, but still, the direction is there.

(I'm not saying you were making the opposite point, it's just that you mention the shows which do the thing with male protagonists [which is more acceptable, easier to pull off, easier to excuse] but luckily there are counterexamples as well.)

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