It's reasonable for sure, it's just that it happens a lot.
I'm not sure I could see Boreanaz as Riley
I was thinking that he does a good job as Booth from Bones, IMO, who's basically Riley all grown up and from Philadelphia. But yeah, CK would have been weird, I'm glad they didn't go with him.
Saffron...this is kind of a mess. trigger warning for sexual abuse
Therefore, it is what I see as a potential effect of abuse that makes her a villain. Even if that's emphatically not her background, ME should have considered how they were presenting this character and how it would come across.
And overall, but especially with my read on Saffron, the image of Mal the patriarch straddling and pistol-whipping her (guns being a not particularly subtle stand-in for, y'know, hammers) and being presented as the hero for it just makes me queasy.
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Date: 2010-09-28 12:39 am (UTC)I'm not sure I could see Boreanaz as Riley
I was thinking that he does a good job as Booth from Bones, IMO, who's basically Riley all grown up and from Philadelphia. But yeah, CK would have been weird, I'm glad they didn't go with him.
Saffron...this is kind of a mess. trigger warning for sexual abuse
I know a radfem a few years back ad hominum'd the hell out of OMR, but seriously? Saffron - given that she's has identity issues, expects that people (particularly older men) will use her for sex, can't trust anyone, is nearly suicidal ("aren't you going to kill me?") - just pings my radar as someone who might have been sexually mistreated. I'm not any kind of expert, and I am not implying that this is all or even most abuse victims, just that those traits showing up in one person in such a pronounced way...make me worry.
Therefore, it is what I see as a potential effect of abuse that makes her a villain. Even if that's emphatically not her background, ME should have considered how they were presenting this character and how it would come across.
And overall, but especially with my read on Saffron, the image of Mal the patriarch straddling and pistol-whipping her (guns being a not particularly subtle stand-in for, y'know, hammers) and being presented as the hero for it just makes me queasy.