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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-10-13 07:03 pm

[ SECRET POST #2841 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2841 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-10-13 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That said, I feel people are too harsh on female characters. They're held to a much higher standard than male characters. A male characters can be the flattest flat character who ever flatted and still get fans. A female character must have not just depth, but the right kind of depth, or she's useless.

I was just about to say this. I was a Merlin fan and got sick to death of people saying "Guinevere is just a love interest!" whilst simultaneously making up tons of meta and fics and GIFs for Percival who we knew absolutely NOTHING about.

And it wasn't just a male/female thing either. Any visiting princess was bound to be adored, even when every single one of them was introduced SOLELY to be a potential love interest for Arthur.

And that's just one fandom out of many. So I always take the "I dislike her because she's a love interest" excuse with a pinch of salt. A lot of the time it feels like an excuse, not a reason.

(Anonymous) 2014-10-14 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, I never really warmed to Guinevere. I don't mind Angel. I just didn't think she really had the right chemistry with Bradley. (I don't ship Arthur with princesses or Merlin/his Round Table, either.)

(Anonymous) 2014-10-14 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Then you'd be the very small exception to the norm.