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⌈ Secret Post #2620 ⌋

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[My Mad Fat Diary]

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[Stargate Atlantis]

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[Andromeda]

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[True Detective]

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[Samurai Flamenco]

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[Star Trek: DS9]

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[Supernatural]

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[Wild Adapter]

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[The Bletchley Circle]

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[Junior Prom - Prelinger Archives Video]

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This is maybe off-topic but... I don't think the only problem with Bela and Ruby in s3 was with the fandom. I like pretty much every other female character on the show (although I wish there were more), I liked Ruby when she came back in s4, don't have any real investment in the ships in the show, and I absolutely could not stand Bela or Ruby in s3.

I think they were just really, really bad characters. Poorly-written characters, mostly. It felt like any time they were in a scene, the only point of that scene was how badass and cool and mysterious they were and how much more they knew than anyone else. And that's no way to write a story. Not sure if this is a popular opinion (they seem to be quite well-liked around here) but w/e.

AYRT

Do you like Gabriel and/or Crowley? Because if you do, I take issue with your reasoning for not liking Bela. As those two pretty much have the "cool, mysterious, know more than everyone else" and snarky personalities that Bela did, yet fandom tends to adore them and hate her. If you don't like them, then it just doesn't seem to be your type of character, and that is fine. (And I will not / can not argue that they were written perfectly. They were not. TPTB really don't seem to have a very good understanding of how to write fully fleshed out/complex female characters from what I'd seen. There was potential, but there were also issues.)

I think Bela's popularity has kind of grown? As either more people decided they liked her or more people entered fandom who were inclined to like her or there were more people like me who decided that (for the most part) they were willing to speak out and say they liked/loved her, despite fandom not feeling that way. That seems to be my impression, as I have found more people to talk to positively about her now than I could back in season 3. It might just be where I am, though? IDK.

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