It occurred to me that I write quite a lot of angry and sometimes violent female characters. I’m not entirely certain why this is. I certainly don’t want to portray the women of the LGverse as weak but I might be over compensating. Then, of course, there’s Alice. Perhaps it’s just that women who are part of the military should be fairly tough. Though I’m still not certain why Belinda, Shauna, Tenka, and Colleen are quite so angry. Perhaps I should be exploring this in therapy myself.
That is kind of funny in popular media.
“Let’s make a tough female lead! She needs to have unresolved anger issues, the ability to mop the floor with anything and everything, a sassy wit, bad attitude, and of course a soft femine side, expressed by a love for kitty cats.”
“Great! She sounds like an excellent role model for children! Just add the double Ds, tight clothing, and a hint that she might be bi.”
The people that come up with these characters have apparently never known real women. They just tack on “badass” traits generally unrealistic for either sex and call it a day.
It helps with the suspension of disbelief. Dramatic characters need to be at least a little larger than life to hold the audience’s interest long term. You can make comedies or a “movie of the week” sob story about a normal person, but not a drama. If you take the larger than life characters and unusual situations out of the picture the show becomes about as interesting as the average person’s life. God knows no one would watch a show about my life, and I’d bet probably not any other average person’s life either. If TV’s no more interesting than what I’m likely to see at work tomorrow, why would I watch it?
There’s a reason I don’t watch or read much of popular media, and this pretty much sums up why. Enough Mary Sue’s; we want some real characters. Oh, but The Studio thinks that’s too mundane and boring? Well, at least it’s relateable to 99.99% of the audience.
It’s slightly sad that I live in a world where the only show with a good variety of relatable, realistic female leads is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
You should look up Mass Effect 2, and then either take Miranda as either a Mary Sue or a Deconstruction of a Mary Sue. Then look at Female Shepard.
Just a bit of constructive criticism doc, and I know you have a huge buffer but in some panels IE Panel 2 of this, you kind cut half the characters off, and then end up filling the rest of the space with the ceiling. I don’t know but I’ve noticed it a lot lately and it’s kinda getting annoying. When taking the pictures try to compensate a space for the speech bubbles.
Maybe they’re angry because they all have to work with Johnny? (kidding!)
But now I’m wondering why I didn’t notice this before, or why it seemed normal to me….
Or Maybe it’s because they’re all stuck working ont he Muffin with all the officers none of the rest of the fleet seems to want? Or maybe they’re there because none of the rest of the fleet wants them? The Muffin *is* a repository for the oddballs.
Becuase the males on the crew all seem to be stupid, annoying, and/or incompetent.
TAG, Captain Smith and several of the lower deck types seem to be generally capable.
That’s one of the only things that irritates me abou this strip. The women are all angry and the men are idiots. ( with the exception Of those stated by fandarel)
To be fair, there are really only two types of people in the LG-verse. Assholes and morons. And some people are both.
Um, what exactly is the deal with Alice’s hair here? Looks a little weird.