I'm Bitter About This

[redbrunja]

As most of you are aware, I stopped reading the Naruto manga a while ago (my friday morning are SO much more enjoyable now).

But I'm still pissed at Kishimoto for something.

And that's for ruining female characters with traditionally female strengths for me.

And also girl on girl fights.

I wish I was kidding.

I find out that Harry Dresden's apprentice, Molly, is a sensitive and better at mental magic (as in, she's god and your brain is clay) and I twitch. In a series with Karrin Murphy (poster girl for Badass Normal), Elaine (almost Harry's equal at raw power, better at delicate work, blew the side off a building because she was pissed), FREAKING LARA WRAITH, badass Warden Captain Luccio, and Susan who started as a scrappy reporter and took a level in badass to dhampir.

One secondary female who's a sensitive and I have to run through the above list to make sure Butcher's on the right side of how what I like to call 'The Black Lagoon Line'.

Fiona gets into a fight with some bitchy conwoman and instead of enjoying two girls in bikinis punching each other in the face, I have to mentally tabulate every badass thing Fiona has done (disarming a mugger and hitting him with his own gun, driving off two carload of killers with Molotov cocktails she made in under two minutes, blowing up a car, blowing up a car, blowing up a car, blowing up a truck, tasering a guy, basically tasering herself to drop another guy, knocking someone out with a snow globe, disarming an armed forger with her shoe) before I can relax and enjoy the fight scene that at this point, is over.

God only knows what my reaction to Katara would be at this point.

In summation: Fuck you, Kishimoto.

*randomly, I read a short-story by Jim Butcher on-line and I'm so disappointed that Murphy's first encounter with the supernatural involved Harry. So very disappointed.

Comments

[nimblnymph.livejournal.com]

All I'm gonna say on naruto is that, given how this last chapter ended, there's potential in the very near future for you to take a poke at it. If you find me squeeing on my journal, that's probably a good sign you should peek at it. Nuff said.

Guh. I would LOVE more abs and ass shots on Burn Notice. Especially Michael. Can we say, "ooo, baby?"

The Blair/Mouse fight WAS funny in the sense that it was, quite literally, a cat and mouse thing. And the fan service part was SO BLATANT that it makes me think the writers were making a total mockery of that whole thing. But at the same time ... I was rolling my eyes at it.

Now, Medusa vs. Stein ... whooooa, bad ass! I think that was my favorite fight in the entire series. I'm not sure I really dig the pairing, but as enemies they are amazing.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Yeah, I'm waiting for the moment when all the naruto people on my flist start gabbing again - that's when I'll catch up.

I really, really like Medusa/Stein as a one sided thing, were she's TOTALLY in to her, and he's screwing Marie.

[nimblnymph.livejournal.com]

I see Medusa and Stein kind of having a GOOD version of the love/hate relationship. They're intrigued by the other, possibly even attracted, but it's more of a curiosity thing; what would happen if...?

They like to push the boundaries of the other, test for cracks and see if they can get the other to break. They want to see what happens when the other shatters, whether they remain broken or scrape their self up into something newer and potentially more interesting.

Geeze, it sounds really sick like that. Maybe I need to rethink this thing.

Marie grew on me. When she was first introduced I was like, "Oh, gooood... another one of THOSE tropes!" Meaning, the female obsessed with getting married NAO because, zomg, she's ooooold! But later on in the series, starting right around when they went to Alaska and Stein REALLY started cracking... she started coming out a bit.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I had the same reaction to Marie. For a while I more WANTED to like her than I actually did, and then she started to grow on me in her own right.