the break from fandom, it is not going so well...

[meganbmoore]

Ok, seriously, how can women NOT be interested in women in fiction, or view them as irrelevant, or only there to complement the guys?  I mean, seriously, HOW???

I don't mean liking every female character ever, or always being more interested in the female, I just mean approaching fiction with the idea that the female is less important than the male.

It seems to me that it should be the reverse...but then again, I shouldn't be surprised, as so much of fandom revolves around the ideathat it's good or more interesting to take the role of the female and give it to a male instead(yes, if you slash a canonically, heterosexually paired character with another male, you ARE robbing the female of part of her role in the story and giving it to a male.  Period.)

No, I do not dislike you or not respect you or automatically think less of you if you aren't interested in female characters or slash canonically paired males(the f-list would be much smaller if I did.)  But I also can't remotely with your viewpoint when you're coming at something with either one.

(ok, I must ask:  is there something in the world's water supply the last few weeks?  I keep seeing more and more rants...not that I'm one to talk.) 

ETA: No, not directed at anyone specifically (I don't post rants directed to specific people if I know them) but on comments in various rants I've read the last week or so.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Basically: She started a detective agency, but learned no one wanted to hire a female PI(remember: 80s) so she invented a fictional boss named Remington Steele who was always "out of town." He was a con artist who, in the midst of conning one of her clients, stumbled across HER con, and recognized a good gig when he saw one, and assumed the role of RS. She realized a somewhat controllable figurehead was good for business, ad that she couldn't risk his exposing her, so she let him. He never told her his real name(eventually, we learn he's an orphan and doesn't know his own name) and she gave him the nickname of "Harry," which he liked. Later, the man who raised him showed up(the actor, BTW, was Stephanie Zimbalist's RL father) and when he heard about that, he told her that he'd also given Steele the same name when he was a child.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Awww, adorable.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I consider their "meet cute" to be about 3/4 through the first episode, when she learns he's co-opted her con when her client announces that he(he told her he was a government agent investigating...well, himself, but she already had her serious suspicions) is Remington Steele...and she chews him out in a seething whisper and he knows the only reason she didn't kill him then and there(probably by taking off her high healed shoes and stabbing him in the heart with one of the heals) was because she was far too classy and refined-not to mention smart-to commit murder in a crowded room of potential clients.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That's a damn good meet cute.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

And then imagine a whole series full of such scenes.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's been AGES since I last saw this (as noted elsewhere, I am ooooold and was a fangirl back when it was first broadcast), but I do remember them having wonderful chemistry together. And what's not to love about a young Pierce Brosnan? Do check it out.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The only thing not to love is that Brosnan has been stuck replaying the character in different roles ever since...I remember when it first came to DVD, reading some things from him where he indicated that he wished he didn't always have to play his roles like Steele. I think he did a movie a year or two ago(can't recall the title) deliberately because the character was the Steele/Bond character type, 100% stripped of all the glamour...letting him play the type he's known for, while making it something completely different for him.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I remember some of them. I really need to rewatch that series.