Re:How Faithful Is Amazon’s Rings of Power to JRR Tolkien’s ...
by rsribeiro on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @07:37AM
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I don't understand how can a be classified as a Mary Sue if she was wrong about every single thing and every thing she did backfired or failed. And this was pretty much telegraphed by the average writing since episode 01.
Re:How Faithful Is Amazon’s Rings of Power to JRR Tolkien’s ...
by BlargMcLarg on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:13AM
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It's either a non-text book case or conflating. She's basically that edgy, grumpy, aggressive side character. But instead of a side character, she's a main character. Instead of comic relief, she is serious. Instead of being confronted quickly, the flaws are ignored or presented as beneficial and barely opposed at all.
The archetype itself isn't new. If anything, women were overrepresented in that archetype as side characters for decades. Changing the character's role just doesn't magically solve the need for the archetype to interplay with others in a less brash way.
Make all the women act like toxic men, and make all the men act effeminate.
It goes back to the old line: "Being powerful is like being a woman. If you have to tell someone you are, you aren't." Galadrial in LOTR was an insanely powerful, to the point it was frightening. But she acted like a woman, not an arrogant man.
The writers are so clueless as to how to make a woman be a powerful character, the only way they can figure out how to do it is turn her into Captain Marvel / Rey / Mary Sue.