...no, that's really all I have. I tend to disengage when the things that annoy me outweigh the things that I like (even if I like them *really a lot* the way that I like Ronon and Teyla), because if my overall feeling when the credits roll is one of unhappiness, then what's the point?
And honestly, a lot of my frustration is not actually in criticizing the shows for the invisibility or poor treatment of women and characters of color, but it is in the lack of criticism of fandom itself for perpetuating those things. And like I said in other comments, I do think that in focusing the criticism on the text the way that we do, excuses fandom's issues by saying that if the show were better about XYZ thing, then the fic/vids/meta/art/what-have-you would exist. Which yeah, no. I'm sorry. I've rarely found the women and POC on a show so dull that there was nothing to be said about them, so it bothers me that fandom in general acts like it's entirely the fault of the text when at least part of that blame has to rest with us.
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...no, that's really all I have. I tend to disengage when the things that annoy me outweigh the things that I like (even if I like them *really a lot* the way that I like Ronon and Teyla), because if my overall feeling when the credits roll is one of unhappiness, then what's the point?
And honestly, a lot of my frustration is not actually in criticizing the shows for the invisibility or poor treatment of women and characters of color, but it is in the lack of criticism of fandom itself for perpetuating those things. And like I said in other comments, I do think that in focusing the criticism on the text the way that we do, excuses fandom's issues by saying that if the show were better about XYZ thing, then the fic/vids/meta/art/what-have-you would exist. Which yeah, no. I'm sorry. I've rarely found the women and POC on a show so dull that there was nothing to be said about them, so it bothers me that fandom in general acts like it's entirely the fault of the text when at least part of that blame has to rest with us.