Speaking of morally ambiguous characters and relateability, every time they show Jenna being vulnerable I find myself loving her. I wish we could see more of her, get more of an arc; it seems like she's more inclined to do this sort of cycle between completely hostile and more human.
Ah, don't worry about the tagging, I'm gonna be caught up very soon anyway. ;)
Spencer is just so ... she cares SO MUCH and she tries SO HARD. She's ... earnest in a very particular way that really gets to me. And I find her relationship with Alison to be the most compelling, probably because of how much she pushed back. Plus I always like the really smart ones. (And ... she's also got the canon relationship I find most interesting, at this point. Of all the male significant others, or maybe even the male characters, Toby's the one I care about a fair bit. Not that this would stop me from slashing Spencer, but. :p)
Teen Wolf is ... generally so absurd, and makes so many strange storytelling and character choices, that it's one of those things you're most likely to enjoy if you mostly throw up your hands and go along for the ride. Which isn't to say that I don't find myself critiquing it when it fails really hard at women, etc, but my investment doesn't come from that kind of engagement (the way it does with so many shows). It's my junk food fandom, I guess. That said, Allison and especially Lydia are great, and they do some pretty interesting things with them (even if they're kind of inconsistent). Lydia starts out as this very calculated Queen Bee type character who every once in awhile slips up and spits out some super-intense science fact because she's a genius ... actually, she would cross over with PLL pretty nicely. :p
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Date: 2013-06-23 04:32 pm (UTC)Ah, don't worry about the tagging, I'm gonna be caught up very soon anyway. ;)
Spencer is just so ... she cares SO MUCH and she tries SO HARD. She's ... earnest in a very particular way that really gets to me. And I find her relationship with Alison to be the most compelling, probably because of how much she pushed back. Plus I always like the really smart ones. (And ... she's also got the canon relationship I find most interesting, at this point. Of all the male significant others, or maybe even the male characters, Toby's the one I care about a fair bit. Not that this would stop me from slashing Spencer, but. :p)
Teen Wolf is ... generally so absurd, and makes so many strange storytelling and character choices, that it's one of those things you're most likely to enjoy if you mostly throw up your hands and go along for the ride. Which isn't to say that I don't find myself critiquing it when it fails really hard at women, etc, but my investment doesn't come from that kind of engagement (the way it does with so many shows). It's my junk food fandom, I guess. That said, Allison and especially Lydia are great, and they do some pretty interesting things with them (even if they're kind of inconsistent). Lydia starts out as this very calculated Queen Bee type character who every once in awhile slips up and spits out some super-intense science fact because she's a genius ... actually, she would cross over with PLL pretty nicely. :p
Also, ooh, how is Bomb Girls?