December Talking Meme #9 and 10
Dec. 23rd, 2014 05:57 pmLois Lane, any incarnation
For selenak
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( Read more... )The awesomeness that is Olivia Badass Motherfucker Dunham for
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Lois Lane, any incarnation
For selenak
( Read more... )The awesomeness that is Olivia Badass Motherfucker Dunham for
bleedingheart80
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falulatonks:
#ugh #i just want her to be happy #i just want her to get ANGRY #there's nothing about the way she's been in the last three years that's approached 'fine'. #i wish your show loved you as much as i do #olivia dunham #olivia-s2 #team olivia #olivia-charlie #olivia-charlie-s2
Dunham /DUN-ham/ verb. 1. To act like FBI Agent Olivia Dunham 2. Killing an enemy with a single gunshot to the head: Dunhammed; dunhamming. EX: Please Agent Jessup, don't dunham me! -- That poor shape shifter really got dunhammed last night!
imyriadbits is exactly right about Olivia not being immediately accessible, not in the way we usually see main female characters in TV shows being presented. She's so very serious, and we only see her lighter, more joyful and playful moments rarely (usually with Ella and Rachel, occasionally with Peter). She comes across as very stoic, but it's the kind of stoicism that's marred by ever-widening cracks that let her incredible grief and anger out (and, hoo boy, does she have good reasons to be grieving and furious), to the point where there are times she's wound so tight and carrying so many burdens it's a wonder she doesn't break.
Then sometimes she does - she breaks down, she cries, she loses her temper, she lashes out, she makes ill-advised decisions out of desperation and fear.* It can be heartbreaking to watch because, seriously! Olivia! You don't have to carry the burden of THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE on your shoulders! But the show doesn't pull any punches, so she keeps carrying all those burdens, and we keep watching because we love her.
But I have to say that season 2? Really kind of crushed me. Partially because (I'm pretty sure due to studio interference) it took a lot of the small, quiet things that I absolutely adored about season one (Dani's hair and wardrobe, the internal emotional continuity, the relatively not-batshit deaths, the cinematography, et al) and chucked them. Moreover, it honestly dumbed Dani down a lot, dicked Charlie and Jen around and then dropped the whole story line, and ramped up the ~weird~ deaths by a lot. Still, I think the worst part about the whole season is that I couldn't entirely dismiss it. Because whenever I turned my head away and just couldn't take it anymore, the damn show did something awesome or pulled itself back to season one. "Did You Feel That?" was fucking hardcore, as was "Trapdoor".