it might just be me...

[thehallway]

...but i have been really disappointed with the season finales i've watched. bones just made me go 'what?' while ncis made me go 'oh, please.' and on top of that, the scc has been canceled.

bad time to be a fan of strong women characters as they're retconned and disappeared along with any sense of organic storytelling. but at least some semblance of misogyny is alive and well.

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[heathen_outpost]

And how! I don't know from Bones, but I'm a long-time Joss Whedon fan who's spent half a season saying "WTF?!" at the bizarro sexism of Dollhouse. I feel like the wet blanket in a field of squee.

I've always been torn about NCIS. Good characters, but the more authority a woman has there, the more likely that she'll be killed. The more a woman's quirks can be read as diminishing her authority in relation to Gibbs; the more likely she'll live to see next season. Director, dead. Kate, dead and brought back to be a ghost in hooker-gear. Abby, as much as I like her, makes herself childlike and frames him with parental authority, and so takes the longevity prize.

[thehallway]

i love whedon and i think he deserves major props for a lot of what he does with portrayal of his female characters. i just couldn't get into dollhouse, so consider me just another section of that wet blanket.

and i get what you mean about ncis. i love gibbs. love kate and ziva and mcgee and abby. but you are absolutely spot on with the whole kill any woman with more than an iota of strength or authority or independence thing.

and jenny's death was particularly heinous. here's this character who's supposed to be tough and decisive and sharp and what does she think about? a lot about flashbacks of her and gibbs in bed.

and her death is all so stupid and her decisions so questionable that it undermines her character completely.

and abby? yeah. i can't decide if it's more that she's making herself childlike and that how gibbs sees her, as an affectionate parental or if he just pats her on the head and considers her his pet.

oy, i'm just bitter as all hell, aren't i?

[heathen_outpost]

You and me both. ;)