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[meganbmoore]

So, Kim Possible is supposed to be a show about a super cool teenaged female spy with superpowers or somesuch, right?

Well, this seems pretty true in the bits I've watched, but why is it that every time I watch, the episode seems to be about Kim learning to appreciate her brothers or dorky (male) partner, or about letting them shine, instead of about Kim being cool?

If it were called "Ron Stoppable," I'd be perfectly fine with the super cool girl spy being secondary, but the title is "Kim Possible," so I expect the focus to be on her, not her learning to better appreciate boys.

It's fun, but have I just caught the wrong episodes?

At least I don't have to worry about that with Malina and London.

ETA:  Fixed his name.  Now that I know it.

Comments

[ryanitenebrae.livejournal.com]

My theory is that when Kim Possible started out, they had enough male-oriented programming that they could keep it completely centered around Kim, but in seasons three and four(which wasn't originally supposed to have existed, and is really, really weird for many reasons), they had stuff like Hannah Montanna going and guys were responding to Kim Possible more than they had expected, so.. Honestly, it's not really a gender thing for me, but simply that Kim's a decent character, and Ron just comes off as really irritating to me instead of the affable goofball he's supposed to be. Therefore, the first season or so kind of vindicates me. (I used to watch the Disney Channel fairly often, but I no longer have TV and it's not really high priority for me enough to rent it) In the early episodes, Ron is all but openly derided by the writers. The villains can't even remember his name, and he makes a series of very stupid blunders. Still, his friendship with Kim is honestly very sweet, and I don't think it fits well as a romance at all. By the way, you might like this: One of the first episodes is centered around Ron becoming obsessed with his physical appearance and delivering the moral to him that it's what's inside that counts. (There is a very amusing catfight involved with an equally self-obsessed villain's sidekick.) That episode also features one of his worse mistakes of all time, in which he basically creates a recurring supervillain.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Uhm...their thinking they didn't have enough male centric programming, or that they had to make it more about Ron for guys to like it,doesn't really help...

[ryanitenebrae.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't help at all. ^^; Still, it puts some sort of sense to it.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

We have the graphic novel of that one. So much win.