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The Hollow Forest has its quirks, but that entry drastically overstates its level of challenge and deliberately failed to mention any of the ways the game mitigates it. And Plot Tumor is not a \
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The Hollow Forest has its quirks, but that entry drastically overstates its level of challenge and deliberately failed to mention any of the ways the game mitigates it or plays with it.
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I\\\'ll be removing Clara from \\\"Doctor Who\\\" for similar reasons. She\\\'s not even \\\'that\\\' quirky (at least not any more than her love interest, next to whom she winds up looking like the reasonable one), and this \\\"no developement\\\" canard is mostly rooted in the fact that it\\\'s trendy to hate on anything the most recent showrunner puts out these days;
We get tons of detailed background info on her and her family history, and she goes from someone presentable who\\\'s shelved her dreams to fulfill her duties to a firm, confident idealist who strives toward realizing all of her ambitions (whom series 8 then shapes into someone with a more pragmatic approach)
To dismiss an articulate, iron-willed, cunning and capable person like Clara as [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses \\\"very cute and feminine\\\" eye candy]] just because she\\\'s vain, wears colorfull dresses and looks after chldren for a living strikes me as prett sexist in itself. This is someone who was mature enough to put her life plans on hold to care for two motherless children, drives motorbikes, was interested in philosphy since she was teenager and was shown to have quite a hard-edge as early as the episode \\\"Hide\\\".
She\\\'s one of the few female characters out there who gets to be very dominant (to the point that it\\\'s not always a good thing), relish in leadership, act as a mentor figure without maternal associations, fuck up in her love life, and be fully aware of her capabilities without downplaying them or being dismissed as as one-dimensional bitch.
The plot arc in series 7 wasn\\\'t about a \\\"pixie dreamgirl\\\" plot, not even about deconstructing it - It was about having those two *equally* mysterious, \\\"powerful\\\" characters trying to make sense of each other, both as entities and as people.
Or, in the words of the actress that played her:
\\\"It’s not very straightforward. I like the idea of the two of them being magnetically attracted to each other but they are also wary of each other at the same time. Kind of like they’re both equally mysterious creatures, so they meet and just instantly get on. And this goes on as the series progresses. This guy has landed on her doorstep and offered her all of time and space, so she’s trying to figure out what he’s about, at the same time he’s always trying to figure out what she’s about”
It will never cease to surprise me how fans of a SciFi show will dismiss \\\'curiosity about mysterious occurences\\\' as \\\"no motivation\\\", or make a \\\"person charges mystery\\\" (and potentially finds love on the way) situation about \\\"girl runs after man\\\"
For every Damsel or vapid anthropomorphic collection of idealized traits, there is her boyfriend, who somehow manages to be a goal-driven 3D character despite falling in love and pursuing \\\"get girlfriend\\\" as one of his (many) goals. Getting a partner does not immediately make a character \\\"based around them\\\" or \\\"lacking own motivation\\\"
We get tons of detailed background info on her and her family history, and she goes from someone presentable who\\\'s shelved her dreams to fulfill her duties to a firm, confident idealist who strives toward realizing all of her ambitions (whom series 8 then shapes into someone with a more pragmatic approach)
To dismiss an articulate, iron-willed, cunning and capable person like Clara as [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses \\\"very cute and feminine\\\" eye candy]] just because she\\\'s vain, wears colorfull dresses and looks after chldren for a living strikes me as prett sexist in itself. This is someone who was mature enough to put her life plans on hold to care for two motherless children, drives motorbikes, was interested in philosphy since she was teenager and was shown to have quite a hard-edge as early as the episode \\\"Hide\\\".
She\\\'s one of the few female characters out there who gets to be very dominant (to the point that it\\\'s not always a good thing), relish in leadership, act as a mentor figure without maternal associations, fuck up in her love life, and be fully aware of her capabilities without downplaying them or being dismissed as as one-dimensional bitch.
The plot arc in series 7 wasn\\\'t about a \\\"pixie dreamgirl\\\" plot, not even about deconstructing it - It was about having those two *equally* mysterious, \\\"powerful\\\" characters trying to make sense of each other, both as entities and as people.
Or, in the words of the actress that played her:
\\\"It’s not very straightforward. I like the idea of the two of them being magnetically attracted to each other but they are also wary of each other at the same time. Kind of like they’re both equally mysterious creatures, so they meet and just instantly get on. And this goes on as the series progresses. This guy has landed on her doorstep and offered her all of time and space, so she’s trying to figure out what he’s about, at the same time he’s always trying to figure out what she’s about”
It will never cease to surprise me how fans of a SciFi show will dismiss \\\'curiosity about mysterious occurences\\\' as \\\"no motivation\\\", or make a \\\"person charges mystery\\\" (and potentially finds love on the way) situation about \\\"girl runs after man\\\"
For every Damsel or vapid anthropomorphic collection of idealized traits, there is her boyfriend, who somehow manages to be a goal-driven 3D character despite falling in love and pursuing \\\"get girlfriend\\\" as one of his (many) goals. Getting a partner does not immediately make a character \\\"based around them\\\" or \\\"lacking own motivation\\\"
