It's interesting because at first I definitely disliked Bela when the season aired. Very much, actually. It was the way she was presented as the intentional antagonist and if the boys hated her, the audience hated her.
However, in hindsight, I realize that this is a huge flaw with the show and its treatment of female characters as a whole. I started to reevaluate the character of Bela Talbot and found myself actually liking her rather than hating her, and the more I can to that realization the more I hated the show for treating her the way they did. It really opened my eyes to the treatment of women in their writing, to be honest. Particularly since S3 was a poor example when you consider how misogynistic the entire season was as a whole
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I frickin love Bela! I was so mad when I found out they were killing her off. I think the writers should bring her back. She did go to hell, right? So its possible. Haha!
Bela was awesome and I loved her from the start. I loved the back and forth snark with Dean, too, although not so much some of the nastier comments he made to her, but even then, she gave it right back. She reminds me a lot of Jesse Flores from the Sarah Connor Chronicles in her strength and doing what she has to do to achieve her goals, and then she has that lovely streak of larceny. Bela got a raw deal, and I will always feel cheated that we never got to see her and Dean hook up in Hell and raise a little hell.
I don't watch this show, but I loved this entry all the same. Especially this part:
In a way the reaction to Bela reminds me of a song I recently included in Lilly Kane fan mix, Juliana Hatfield's 'There's Always Another Girl'. you can find the mix at [info]petitemerci, but basically the song talks about society's need for strong, smart, beautiful, or independent women to self-destruct, and how they thrive off it because they need someone they can talk badly about. At the same time society tends to encourage or at least allow and accept less than stellar and even reprehensible behavior from men, it's a double standard. Sadly, fandom, like art, tends to imitate real life. Fandom has double standards for men, and that's what this whole We Love The Women Fandom Hates fest is about isn't it? When involved in fandom people will undoubtedly find fault wherever they can in it's female characters rather than accepting them as human or having human characteristics like they do with male characters, fandom tends to encourage people to
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However, in hindsight, I realize that this is a huge flaw with the show and its treatment of female characters as a whole. I started to reevaluate the character of Bela Talbot and found myself actually liking her rather than hating her, and the more I can to that realization the more I hated the show for treating her the way they did. It really opened my eyes to the treatment of women in their writing, to be honest. Particularly since S3 was a poor example when you consider how misogynistic the entire season was as a whole ( ... )
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In a way the reaction to Bela reminds me of a song I recently included in Lilly Kane fan mix, Juliana Hatfield's 'There's Always Another Girl'. you can find the mix at [info]petitemerci, but basically the song talks about society's need for strong, smart, beautiful, or independent women to self-destruct, and how they thrive off it because they need someone they can talk badly about. At the same time society tends to encourage or at least allow and accept less than stellar and even reprehensible behavior from men, it's a double standard. Sadly, fandom, like art, tends to imitate real life. Fandom has double standards for men, and that's what this whole We Love The Women Fandom Hates fest is about isn't it? When involved in fandom people will undoubtedly find fault wherever they can in it's female characters rather than accepting them as human or having human characteristics like they do with male characters, fandom tends to encourage people to ( ... )
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