[Discussion] Flawed canon and "bad" characters

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Who are your favourite "guilty pleasure" female characters? The ones who aren't good examples of what can be done with female characters, but who you deeply love anyway?

Have you spent hours creating backstory for a female character whose sole purpose in canon is to provide eyecandy for fanboys? Do you feel wildly passionate about a woman from a badly written, sexist series? Is your OTC a woman who died in the first episode of a new series, before the opening credits even began to roll?

Comments

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

And you haven't even touched on the soap operas yet!

[serrico.livejournal.com]

Oh, god.

Yeaaaaaaaaah. Where to even *begin* with the soap operas? (No, actually, I know where I'd begin: Alexis. Followed up by Laura, then Lulu, then Kate, then Epiphany [freakin' HELL, writers, COME ON], then Robin, then Georgie, then Tracy then Faith then...)

I'd probably work in a tirade on the dumbass closing shot of the credits with all the guys in tuxes, too. Wherefore the women? WHEREFORE??

...but, see, this is why I stopped where I did. 'Cause once the discussion begins on women-in-soaps these days, it will NEVER END. *bitter*

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. I think the only thing that could possibly top the biterness of the women-in-soaps discussion might be the women in mainstream comics discussion, but maybe not *sigh*. (Man, I had a moment of deja vu as I typed this, and I would bet money I have probably said the exact same thing in your comments at least once!) And now I wish I had thought to ask you to do a post pimping the (past) awesomeness of the women in our favorite soaps.

[serrico.livejournal.com]

And now I wish I had thought to ask you to do a post pimping the (past) awesomeness of the women in our favorite soaps.

Eh, I'm not sure I would've had time this go-round to do the soap ladies justice, anyway. But run this puppy again at some point, and I will definitely schedule time to do a roundup of the GH Women Who Rock(ed). (Because there used to be so *many*! Sigh. Bitter, bitter sigh.)