Warning: Dangerous Kinksters and Gamers!!

[qos]

As I mentioned recently, my sister's belated birthday gift to me was the season one DVD collection of the tv series Bones, which is about Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan, a beautiful, brilliant, Queen of Swords type forensic anthropologist who solves murders with hunky, intuitive FBI agent Seeley Booth. The primary supporting characters are Brennan'

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[oakmouse]

Sympathy. I've been touched recently by a somewhat parallel experience. I plan to write an entry about it if I ever get a few spare minutes to rub together. It's not pleasant to see that sort of crap, especially knowing that a lot of other people saw it too and maybe don't know it's crap.

[labelleizzy]

smart heroes who like kinky sex:

it's a webcomic, but here ya go, I'm reading the archives for the first time now. Bi, poly, and kinky! Meet Maytag, the jester!
http://www.flipsidecomics.com/

[qos]

Cool!
Thanks for the link.
I just read the first three chapters and will probably read more.

[iswari]

Law & Order is particularly fond of infertile female characters who kidnap babies and murder pregnant women. Also, crazy fertility doctors who try to inseminate everyone with their own sperm.

I say to Chris, "Oh, here we go again..."

[qos]

Arrgh!
Yes, I remember seeing episodes like that -- and I can just imagine how it's felt to you.

[athenian_abroad]

I guess this post doesn't have much of a point except to observe my own reaction to the two episodes.

The only sentence I disagreed with! :-)

I think there are many good and important points here.

One thing this post got me thinking about was: what sorts of genres and stories require the construction of "villains" -- that is, "bad guys" towards whom we are supposed to feel only anger or disgust. And isn't it interesting that the geek-oriented genres (fantasy and sf) often solve this problem "bloodlessly" by creating non-human villains (demons, vampires, Sauron - Spotlight of Evil, evil robots, clones (oh, wait...um, George...clones are people, remember?), and of course evil aliens). Mainstream genres, by contrast, have to make use of stock-character villains, which often turn out to be stereotypes of unpopular, and not infrequently "weird", groups.

Of course, normal people don't dress up in costumes and pretend to be heroic characters. Normal people sit on the couch and watch other people pretending to be heroic. Right? Which

[blessed_harlot]

I found your post and athenian's response very thoughtful. The issue of making villians in a story - and the ethics of that - is a very evocative one.