Ah! That's perfectly reasonable. :) Sorry for the defensiveness.
I liked the religiosity when it was ambiguous (in the first season and a half) but I bought in to the realism of the show. I also expected it to be SCI FI, not explain everything away as 'God's Plan'. So my expectations of the show did not match up with the writers' plans. But I do feel that the writers did not clearly signal what type of story they were telling. For instance, they held out on making it 100% clear that it really was just all 'God's plan' until the finale... but that cheapens the whole show to a fan like me, and if I'd known it was going to be like that I would have bailed a lot earlier. So I kind of feel cheated.
Gender? Well Slate's article explores only some of it, in my view. I've found it increasingly painful to watch the female characters reduced to stereotypical gender roles, killed, bashed, raped or character assassinated. That's a big reason I pulled back from the show as a whole early in season 4.
I have massive character fan loyalty to Lee, so I kept watching for that, and through him for the ship. But I was really disappointed in their use (or lack of) Lee in Season 4 and so it got so that the only thing I though they MIGHT resolve in a satisfactory way was the ship stuff, which emotionally would have pleased me, yeah. Even though I'd still have been snarky and grumpy about the surrounding show. But turns out even watching with shipper blinkers is unfulfilling.
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Date: 2009-03-23 09:03 pm (UTC)I liked the religiosity when it was ambiguous (in the first season and a half) but I bought in to the realism of the show. I also expected it to be SCI FI, not explain everything away as 'God's Plan'. So my expectations of the show did not match up with the writers' plans. But I do feel that the writers did not clearly signal what type of story they were telling. For instance, they held out on making it 100% clear that it really was just all 'God's plan' until the finale... but that cheapens the whole show to a fan like me, and if I'd known it was going to be like that I would have bailed a lot earlier. So I kind of feel cheated.
Gender? Well Slate's article explores only some of it, in my view. I've found it increasingly painful to watch the female characters reduced to stereotypical gender roles, killed, bashed, raped or character assassinated. That's a big reason I pulled back from the show as a whole early in season 4.
I have massive character fan loyalty to Lee, so I kept watching for that, and through him for the ship. But I was really disappointed in their use (or lack of) Lee in Season 4 and so it got so that the only thing I though they MIGHT resolve in a satisfactory way was the ship stuff, which emotionally would have pleased me, yeah. Even though I'd still have been snarky and grumpy about the surrounding show. But turns out even watching with shipper blinkers is unfulfilling.