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[bookalicent]

yeah so this was insane

[mundifinis]

i know wwdits s5 just ended and most of us are happy about it but like i still feel there is room to critique on how just badly the female characters are written.

literally the first 3 seasons, nadja is quite literally the only main female character. the only other side characters that pop up more than an episode are jenna and charmaine. the only female relationship that nadja has is quite literally with the ghost version of herself and then jenna (but then she dips after the first season).

then season 4 happens and while we get the guide and nadja, the fact it took 4 seasons for there to be another main female character and an actual main female relationship is just horrendous. but even that doesn't make up for how bad the atrocity that is the character marwa.

yes, marwa's character is meant to show how truly fucked up nandor is but if marwa is quite literally the third main female character for that show, i don't think that's the time to fuck up on that representation and use her as a plot device. marwa quite literally has all her autonomy and free-will taken away and then her arc ends with her, a woman of color (and the only one besides guillermo's mother that makes more than one reoccurrence) being turned into a white man. if you were on wwdits twt at least, you know there was a fair amount of (rightful) backlash against that horrendous decision but nothing can change the fact that someone thought that was a good decision and no one in the writer's room felt the need to be like "hey this is a bad idea"

and in season 5, yes the prime focus is on guillermo and nandor and how the former was turned into a vampire and how the latter would react but nadja is still a main character on the show. they could've showed how she connects with the women of little antipaxos or even continue her relationship with the guide from season 4. i know this part does get addressed in the finale but also nadja quite literally says she wants more female friends and the guide is right there and yes it's supposed to be a bit but it quite literally is such an ooc for nadja considering prior the guide, she welcomes most women that she sees and even helps those that are getting treated badly by men.

so nadja treats the guide horribly and ignores her and it's all for the sake of what? the guide getting fed up and locking her (and the other vampires) up so nandor can find about guillermo being a vampire because of course female relationships have to uplift the men in some way.

anyways, that's all. call me reaching. call the lack of female characters to be a satire or whatnot-- i just think that it's a bit fucked up.

[cassianslesbian-moved]

one thing i really liked about the prison break in andor was that there was no question of “what if we’re releasing actually bad guys” and part of it we literally saw cassian get arrested for walking but assuming that there were genuinely bad people in narkina 5 (e.g. murderers) there wasn’t any discussion in the prison arc by any of the characters “oh what if yanno murderers get loose and they kill some more” it’s that the treatment of those prisoners was simply inhumane and their crimes can never justify the way they were being treated by the empire 

[bookalicent]

you hate ana lucia bc she’s a woman who’s a bit of an asshole and was mean to our protagonists in the beginning. i hate ana lucia because she’s a cop and abuses her power both off the island and on it. we are not the same.

[bookalicent]

another day another post of acting like jaime was cersei's victim and didn't have at least some autonomy of his actions towards her

[bookalicent]

if i were to describe my gender i’d just say it’s whatever lorde’s got going on rn #tbh

[bookalicent]

sucks that the first time we see how claire sees her own relationship with her mom—which is kind of important for the young first time mom who’s reduced to her motherhood but that’s a rant for later—is midway through season 3. like no one in that writers room thought to give her another flashback in s1/2 (which could’ve worked and caused more mystery on who her dad is aka the same man who paid for her mom’s hospital bills aka the christian shephard). anyways, at least in par avion, she actually has depth and you see her outside of being a mom for once but it’s so relatively late in the show. and

[bookalicent]

it’s such a cool feeling seeing how much my writing has changed even in the span of a year like woahhhhhh did not think i had it in me but i’ll take it!