Barry: gets powers: minor angst about danger, then: Awesome, new superhero!
Wally: gets powers: minor angst about danger, then: Awesome, new superhero!
Cisco: gets powers just like his evil twin from the alternate Earth: Awesome, new superhero!
Caitlynn: gets powers just like her evil twin from the alternate Earth: FUCK NO, POWERS MAKE YOU EVIL!
NOBODY else among the main characters has had a personality change due to their powers. Nobody. They are the same person, just faster/more psychic. Why is it that the GIRL--the only female major character to get superpowers--is going to go psycho if she uses her powers? We have spent SO MUCH TIME this season angsting about how POWER MAKES HER EVIL, SO SHE BETTER SUPPRESS HER POWER! AND SHE CAN'T DO IT BY HERSELF, SHE NEEDS THE GUYS TO SUPPRESS HER POWER!
This show generally does a decent job with women, so this is such a slap in the face.
Wally: gets powers: minor angst about danger, then: Awesome, new superhero!
Cisco: gets powers just like his evil twin from the alternate Earth: Awesome, new superhero!
Caitlynn: gets powers just like her evil twin from the alternate Earth: FUCK NO, POWERS MAKE YOU EVIL!
NOBODY else among the main characters has had a personality change due to their powers. Nobody. They are the same person, just faster/more psychic. Why is it that the GIRL--the only female major character to get superpowers--is going to go psycho if she uses her powers? We have spent SO MUCH TIME this season angsting about how POWER MAKES HER EVIL, SO SHE BETTER SUPPRESS HER POWER! AND SHE CAN'T DO IT BY HERSELF, SHE NEEDS THE GUYS TO SUPPRESS HER POWER!
This show generally does a decent job with women, so this is such a slap in the face.
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Date: 2017-04-15 03:56 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2017-04-15 06:20 pm (UTC)From:Next stage: she embraces her power and suddenly has a sexy bad-girl makeover.
She already has that damned messy roller curl hair that every woman on the CW has (except Alex Danvers). Sexy bad girl might be a step up.
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Date: 2017-04-17 02:10 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2017-04-16 11:11 pm (UTC)From:My concerns for what my son is absorbing are echoed a little by an interchange we had about Ninjago: I asked him his favorite character. He replied... I have no recollection because frankly I couldn't care less. But, as is typical for him, it was the person he viewed as having the biggest superpowers. Then, I asked him who the nicest character was. "Prolly, Nya," he replied dismissively (in other words, the only girl). (On the up-side, if the girl is the superpowered lead, she's his favorite character, see Elsa, Rey....)
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Date: 2017-04-17 02:14 pm (UTC)From:Take Iris' current thing where she's going to be killed if they don't change the future. Much as Barry tries to make it all about his manpain, she keeps centering the story on her, and pointing out that it's not about him, it's about her. Which, the narrative doesn't always back her up, but it's still better than a lot of TV.