My pet peeve when it comes to female characters is that their Achilles’ heel always seems to be their softer emotions. I don’t mean that they shouldn't be allowed to find love, but it’s like Irene Adler in the Sherlock Holmes franchise. In the books, she manipulates and blackmails in order to free herself from her past and rides off into the sunset with her husband. I don’t mind at all that it’s done for love rather than for financial success or an ideological crusade, that’s a perfectly noble motivation. And as one blogger mentioned, her being a ‘loose woman’ who isn’t punished for it was practically revolutionary at the time Doyle wrote the story. In the recent miniseries, though, she’s undone because despite all her clever planning she goes and falls for Sherlock and is so sentimental as to use his name as her password. I really hate that. I hate the “woman led astray by her emotions” trope, and I hate that they made her directly subservient to Moriarty too. In my opinion, they bankrupted the character of all the elements that made her remarkable.
Tl;dr comment, but here’s my point: I love the Winter Soldier storyline like burning, and I’m beyond excited for all the fanfiction that will come out of it. But I do anticipate being disappointed by them reducing Natasha’s involvement to “lost love”.
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Date: 2013-02-09 02:31 am (UTC)Tl;dr comment, but here’s my point: I love the Winter Soldier storyline like burning, and I’m beyond excited for all the fanfiction that will come out of it. But I do anticipate being disappointed by them reducing Natasha’s involvement to “lost love”.