Here from a newsletter (probably metafandom), hope you don't mind me commenting?
I have such mixed feelings about NCIS sometimes, because there are several female characters I love, but on the other hand, women are constantly being fridged or abused, and the men are not held up to standards of equality. NCIS: LA, for all its silliness, has actually been better when it comes to women (so far, at least).
I agree with you on all of these points.
NCIS has had definite problems with its women, as awesome as they are. I adored Kate, but I found myself liking her more for the theory of who she is than how she was actually portrayed on screen. If she'd been a male former Secret Service agent (protecting the President, no less) would they have had her as naive as she is at times in the series, so ruled by her feelings that she sometimes doesn't remain professional, etc?
NCIS LA has so far been much, much better in this regard.
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Date: 2010-03-28 08:22 pm (UTC)Here from a newsletter (probably metafandom), hope you don't mind me commenting?
I have such mixed feelings about NCIS sometimes, because there are several female characters I love, but on the other hand, women are constantly being fridged or abused, and the men are not held up to standards of equality. NCIS: LA, for all its silliness, has actually been better when it comes to women (so far, at least).
I agree with you on all of these points.
NCIS has had definite problems with its women, as awesome as they are. I adored Kate, but I found myself liking her more for the theory of who she is than how she was actually portrayed on screen. If she'd been a male former Secret Service agent (protecting the President, no less) would they have had her as naive as she is at times in the series, so ruled by her feelings that she sometimes doesn't remain professional, etc?
NCIS LA has so far been much, much better in this regard.