I object to this
What bothers me most coherently about the Legend of the Seeker TV series is the writing on male versus female characters.
I like both the main characters just fine, because they actually put work into them. But they work on making the females likeable and badass and interesting, but let the males do really atrocious things while utterly lacking characters and never acknowledge it. I don't know if it's just because they only care about the male audience and feel they need to 'justify' having female characters--I wouldn't suggest something that stupid if I hadn't read things that suggested that attitude in other places--or if they're just shitty writers or what.
The one woman who mentally violates people beyond the call of her duty (she's trying to help, just in a misguided and creepy way) has the action treated as reprehensible and is eventually killed, but the two men willing to try to deceive and bespell women into very probably having sex with them (it isn't taken that far, but there's no reason to believe they wouldn't) are eventually treated like heroes with no real acknowledgment of wrongdoing.
I mean, they're minor characters. And it's only been in two episodes out of eleven. Still.
Finally I managed to frame a coherent statement about it. Augh.
I like both the main characters just fine, because they actually put work into them. But they work on making the females likeable and badass and interesting, but let the males do really atrocious things while utterly lacking characters and never acknowledge it. I don't know if it's just because they only care about the male audience and feel they need to 'justify' having female characters--I wouldn't suggest something that stupid if I hadn't read things that suggested that attitude in other places--or if they're just shitty writers or what.
The one woman who mentally violates people beyond the call of her duty (she's trying to help, just in a misguided and creepy way) has the action treated as reprehensible and is eventually killed, but the two men willing to try to deceive and bespell women into very probably having sex with them (it isn't taken that far, but there's no reason to believe they wouldn't) are eventually treated like heroes with no real acknowledgment of wrongdoing.
I mean, they're minor characters. And it's only been in two episodes out of eleven. Still.
Finally I managed to frame a coherent statement about it. Augh.
irritated