Yes, you are right that the parent/child relationship in TSCC were really, really good. I found myself really wishing they'd done more with Weaver and John Henry because the parent/child=robot/robot thing was actually a lot different to the usual parent/child=human/robot parallels that are drawn in scifi.
Can you elaborate more on the critique of multinationalism? I'll confess that's not something I picked up on, but I'd be interested to hear more.
I really loved the bit in 208 where Olivia's niece has clearly internalized the "Don't protest Daddy's absence when he's working" dictum, only applied to Olivia.
Absolutely!
Which is sort of a pattern with her. Like...even when they did the blatantly sexualised thing of having her kiss the stripper, which was kind of an obvious grab for "OMGEDGY!" Olivia was basically being the guy. I mean, she LITERALLY was the guy, but also, she was in the masculine role in that scenario. Which on the one hand, I don't want to hand out props to a show that only ever sexualises its heroine by going "omggurlzkissing!" and then denying her femininity at all other times, except...I kind of don't think that Fringe does that with her? Like...it was a bit borderline in that instance, but it's so good at letting her be a woman without a lot of the sexist crap that when they DO have her picking up strippers and her niece internalising male parent stereotypes about her, it feels intriguing and like the show is playing with gender rather than cheap? Maybe? I hope?
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Date: 2009-12-07 06:02 pm (UTC)Can you elaborate more on the critique of multinationalism? I'll confess that's not something I picked up on, but I'd be interested to hear more.
I really loved the bit in 208 where Olivia's niece has clearly internalized the "Don't protest Daddy's absence when he's working" dictum, only applied to Olivia.
Absolutely!
Which is sort of a pattern with her. Like...even when they did the blatantly sexualised thing of having her kiss the stripper, which was kind of an obvious grab for "OMGEDGY!" Olivia was basically being the guy. I mean, she LITERALLY was the guy, but also, she was in the masculine role in that scenario. Which on the one hand, I don't want to hand out props to a show that only ever sexualises its heroine by going "omggurlzkissing!" and then denying her femininity at all other times, except...I kind of don't think that Fringe does that with her? Like...it was a bit borderline in that instance, but it's so good at letting her be a woman without a lot of the sexist crap that when they DO have her picking up strippers and her niece internalising male parent stereotypes about her, it feels intriguing and like the show is playing with gender rather than cheap? Maybe? I hope?
HMM.