vaznetti: (crossover)
vaznetti ([personal profile] vaznetti) wrote 2006-08-28 08:21 pm (UTC)

I think that's the reason I hook the question of female subjectivity into the question of the show's future growth. I want to ask the writers, "What is your plan??" and kick them in the patoot until they have a plan that is sustainable.

Hm. I can't do this if I want to keep watching the show, and I do want to keep watching the show. In my experience, the producers and writers of TV shows never have plans which are sustainable. They pull episodes out of their collective asses, and sometimes things actually make sense, but that's almost certainly an accident. I mean, I think I've spun a pretty good story above, and that is how I read the gender dynamics of the show, but it's my reading (I'm not lying -- i think it's a more satisfying reading of the text than your reading, precisely because it examines the text in its own terms -- but obviously this isn't something I'm going to convince you of, because that's not the kind of reading you want.) I know better than to assume it's what the writers intend, and more than they intended your and Mely's reading.

As for who does that -- well, plenty of writers. Patrick O'Brian. Alan Furst. (To name two that I actually like; Furst does manage one female character who's actually a person, but O'Brian actively resists that development in his female characters). And then that whole Tom Clancy and Gerald Setmour school of books about men and their big toys. I mean, you may not like that literature, but it's there.

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