THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH FRINGE!

[beccatoria]

Found via a rec from kiki_miserychic on twitter.

I wasn't lying when I said one of the awesome things about Fringe was how the main action hero is a girl. Because seriously, this isn't a selective slice of the show. I mean, she gets to do stuff other than fuck up people's shit, sure, cus she's the main character. She gets to do things like have awesome and confusing and pissed-off conversations with morally ambiguous middle-aged women with robot arms and Leonard Nimoy about how she may or may not be teh speshulz and destined to like, save the world or something. BUT ALSO SHE DOES STUFF LIKE THIS.

(For the spoilerphobic, to be honest, this isn't a narrative vid and most of the spoilers are so out of context you wouldn't understand them anyway. Though the framing device, such as it is, might spoil you for one of the major start-of-S2 plotlines. But like...WATCH IT ANYWAY. It's not like you'll really remember or anything. YOU WILL JUST REMEMBER THE ASS-KICKING.)

Comments

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

*loves* *loves again* Olivia is my favorite TV girlfriend currently on air...there can never be enough love for her and her badassery.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Agreed! I love how gender neutral her badassery is too. Not like Buffy or River or hell, even Starbuck in some ways (not so much because of the portrayal but because of the realworld mediastorm that surrounded her genderswitching). Not to denigrate any of those characters because they're all cool and awesome and stuff, but with the Buffy archetype especially there's a lot of focus on the tension between the "girl" part and the "kickass" part, whereas Olivia just IS. And like, I think people overlook her as an amazing kickass TV girlfriend because the show itself doesn't make a big deal out of it, they just write her as the action hero? Which is kind of awesome.

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

YES! I did a picspam for her recently, and it's amazing how very unsexualized she is (without being desexualized). The camera angles, costuming, makeup, writing, everything. It astonishes me how few people talk about her.