Heat Wave

[madripoor_rose]

(No, not Mick

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[madripoor_rose]

I know I've joked about tie in novels being 200 or so pages of quality gen/het fic...but this really does have a weird meta 'in universe RPF' feeling to it.

It's been a long time since I've seen media tie ins novelizing episodes, so I'm assuming they'll do more original plots, if the series continues.

[madripoor_rose]

He actually did author signings in character at a couple of Borders bookstores, so he'd probably do it at a con.

Pretty cool, I hope they write a couple more of these.

[flight_wo_wings]

I don't know, I think the fact that the attempted rape scene ends with the woman -- who happens to be a cop -- fighting off her attacker in such an ingenious way kind of subverts the standard sexualized violence trope. That's my out of context take on it, though; I haven't actually read the book or seen the show.

[madripoor_rose]

It just seemed a little gratuitious. Like the whole point of the scene was to imagine Stana Katic naked and in danger.

[flight_wo_wings]

Well...is there anything essentially wrong with that? Seriously, is there anything morally reprehensible about imagining an attractive woman naked

[madripoor_rose]

That is what I meant by gratuitious. They can't do a nude scene on network television, but here, the reader can imagine the hot actress naked.

And I agree that it can be used effectively, but it's become the cliche to up the drama for a female character with a rape/attempted rape, and disturbingly, seems to have a taint of happening to strong women characters to either explain why they got tough and cynical, or to show them vulnerable and knock them down a peg.

And it's freaking everywhere. The last two other books I happened to read had a rape/ rape threat to female characters. I'm just tired of it.