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hedorah · 1 year

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What's wrong with orientalism in TMNT? || It's actually more probable that the creative team of most media don't go through fans' content, to avoid fans claiming plagiarism if the content does something a fan has also done. I'm not saying all creative teams stay away from their fans' content, just it's more likely they avoid it. Unless you have significant proof? || Your blog's cursor animation is cool.

1. not to say that tmnt is "irredeemable" or anything like that, but orientalism and anti-asian stereotyping has been a bit of a recurring problem throughout the franchise history ('87 especially... some of the lotus blossom episodes were hard to watch). for the last ronin lost years issues in particular, now that mike is going through parts of asia (japan, korea, china, mongolia so far), it really kind of becomes evident when taking into consideration how each country is depicted. more under cut cuz this got looooong

the second and third issues that partially took place in korea especially bothered me, since i'm ethnically korean with a family history on both sides of the border. unified korea is either portrayed like one of those neon, oversaturated, exoticizing pictures of east asian cities (see issue 2's cover) or dirty and full of violence, corruption, and criminal activity, depending on which side of the border mikey's on at the moment. the orientalism here is in this portrayal of koreans as a dirty, violent other for the turtles to judge and beat up. hell, donnie even calls them uncivilized:

what the hell man, i thought you were cool. also, the writers saw fit to... turn all of what was china into a nuclear wasteland after a 9.6 earthquake in beijing? despite china being massive??? this is a confusing decision and i can only wonder why it was made

the parts of the comic that take place in japan and mongolia feature characters that seemingly exist only to help mikey on his journey and train him. i fucked up here and accidentally deleted a huge chunk of this paragraph, and i'm neither japanese nor mongolian, so i can't and will not get into the specifics because i really don't want to put my foot in my mouth talking about the specifics of cultures and ethnic groups that i'm not a part of

either way, asians in the last ronin: lost years are portrayed as an "other", a contrast to our american (mike explicitly refers to himself as "american" in issue 2) protagonists. they're either violent goons for action scenes or wise, hospitable mentors for mikey to learn from, but so far we haven't seen many asian characters outside of these two roles

unfortunately i think orientalism is something thats kind of hard to avoid in a franchise like this, where its primarily non-asian, american creatives writing stories that feature asian (japanese) characters and cultures for almost 40 years running (i checked, and i think there's only one asian american working on tlr:ly as an associate editor). ideally creatives would avoid orientalism and instead treat asian characters like actual people instead of "the other", but...well. yknow. to clarify, it's perfectly fine to like tmnt, hell i'm a MASSIVE fan with a decent collection of comics on my shelf. but i think its something that we as fans should be mindful of when engaging with the source material and fan works. sorry if my explanation is a little scattered, i need to go get dinner rn haha ^^"

2. at the very least, one of the artists scrolls through the lost ronin hashtag, he liked and rted my picture of lost years issue #1 and my ronin figures' boxes. i didn't really mean like fanfic or anything like that, just casual social media stuff, and so i didn't really want to bother the actual creators because lord knows how the twitter algorithm works. shit's dark magic to me and if i got pqrted id cry and wail because twt confuses me [exaggeration]

3. ty! i'm surprised it still works after all these years haha, i think i got it from this site

#the calzone #still not as extremely terrible as transformers idw and its asian politics arc LMAOOOOO #long post

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retvenkos · 1 year

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send me this emoji and a character ask game: 👑 + matthias helvar + fluff, please? :) <3

hello anon! i'm assuming you meant this emoji: 🚀 but if i'm wrong and you're pulling from a different ask game, just let me know, lololol. (i also respect how no matter the ask game, matthias helvar shows up in my inbox. i just think it's neat that we all love him so much <3 )

🚀 send me this emoji and a character, and i will tell you what fanfic trope/AU they best fit into

MATTHIAS HELVAR in a MODERN, FAKE DATING! AU. you and matthias are friends who met in college, through your mutual friend inej ghafa. he's always been the serious, polite, yet-easily-flustered type, and the two of you get along incredibly well. your conversations over the themes in literature and film are legendary (though your other friend, nina, complains that the two of you ruin every movie night as you try to debate the merits of directorial choices right in the middle of the film - either watch the film by yourselves or at least aggressively text your thoughts to the other, goddamn), your mutual obsession with Big Dogs is endearing, and your friendship is incredibly dear to the both of you. you'd never do anything to jeopardize what the two of you have... and yet, when it's time for your sibling or cousins wedding, and you just know your family is going to get on your case about your lack of a romantic partner (how old are you, again? and didn't you just graduate last year?), there's really only one person you can think of inviting to go with you, under the pretense that you're dating. bad decision? you sure do hope not, you already told your parents the lie and everything. and this is matthias we're talking about! he's not going to make any of this weird, right? i mean, he's going to be Very Against The Idea when you first propose it (because he's a man or morals or whatever *dramatic eye roll*), but he's malleable! He'd do anything for you - jesper laments about it all the time ("helvar doesn't do jack shit for me until (y/n) asks him to :(") - and it's not like you're going to fall in love with your best friend over a two week trip to hawai'i (and who even gets married in hawai'i anymore? how cliche can this almost-married couple be?), right? you can push that nagging feeling that you'd really like to date matthias for real to the back of your mind for just a little longer, right? i mean, choosing matthias was simply a strategic move. you're already incredibly close (he even knows about your poor ability to hold alcohol - and he doesn't mind the fact that you're a clingy drunk!!!); he has the cleanest track record of all of your friends (the last thing you want is to bring kaz brekker home to your parents, could you imagine the nuclear fallout); he's not doing anything important anyway (so then why does wylan keep looking at you like you've ruined his weekend plans?); and he's already featured on your instagram enough to make his boyfriend status a legitimate, though hidden, fact (it's not your fault that your dogs just love matthias more than you and that matthias looks insanely cute when playing with the puppies). yes, you're making a strategic choice. there's nothing else happening here... no, you aren't wishing there was something more happening here...

just two weeks... you can make it through two weeks...

#ask game #perhaps a surprising choice lololol but i actually think that matthias would fit into soo many ~contemporary romance~ novels #that involve this kind of scenario #it's his lack of emotional intelligence and absolute whipped behavior asdfghjhgfdsdfghjhgf #lololol no but i really just want a modern! au for the crows where matthias is a Mess™ in the group chat #and Kuwei is THIS close to just spilling the beans #(and where everyone questions why they allowed kuwei into the group chat in the first place - this chaos demon is too much to handle)#matthias helvar #six of crows

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sevens-evan · 5 years

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fuffy quotes, bands, books, movies that make you wanna cry, tv shows, fuffy fics

this is v v long so i’m putting it under a cut

ask me top 5 anything!

fuffy quotes, not really in order tbh (i’m not gonna lie i do not remember any of them clearly skjhaskldg i have three stale saltine crackers for a brain):

1. the “bad time, girlfriend?” line (i’m like 90% sure it was in bad girls?) because how textually gay can you get

2. the exchange where buffy’s like you killed someone and faith’s like i don’t care. because self-destructive angry female characters are my Brand and it was top tier angst

3. when faith’s going on about slaying gets her hungry and horny and buffy’s like “sometimes i crave a low fat yogurt” because it’s hilarious and also. gay

4. “want, take, have.” it’s literally the name of my fuffy playlist what more do you want from me

5. the dream sequence exchange in the bedroom that i Cannot for the life of me remember right now but i remember it making me Feel things

bands (i’m gonna do artists in general. also it changes every five minutes, this is a list off the top of my head that may or may not be accurate):

1. flatsound

2. the national

3. death cab for cutie

4. kevin abstract

5. margot and the nuclear so and so’s

books:

1. paper towns by john green

2. at the edge of the universe by shaun david hutchinson

3. leah on the offbeat by becky albertalli

4. station eleven by emily st. john mandel

5. i’m out of novels so i’m gonna say felicity by mary oliver, which has some of my favorite poems of all time in it

i’ve literally watched like. two movies. this entire year. and maybe three last year. i don’t watch movies i’m sorry i have no answers here

tv shows:

1. btvs, of course

2. chuck, which yes, is Problematique™, but i love it so much okay

3. psych

4. the x files

5. i’ve been watching miss fisher’s murder mysteries recently and i absolutely fucking adore it, so maybe that?

fuffy fics (i’ve read so goddamn many and forgotten to bookmark them so here, have a selection of the few i’ve remembered to bookmark) (also bear in mind that these aren’t really. in order of preference? idk man i have a hard time comparing fics. there are fics i like and fics i don’t, and i like all of these, so don’t put too much stock in the numbers):

1. even death is a shadow of forgetting, which is. so wonderfully deliciously angsty and it hurts me so much and it’s from faith’s pov which is. my biggest kink tbh. faith pov fuffy angst.

2. inevitability by @jenny-calendar, which is a great take on post-chosen fuffy. celia’s writing here is so lyrical and soft and lovely, and the fic is angsty and happy and healing and just. one of my favorite fics of all time. there’s a line that faith says at the end that i literally think about every day of my life. go read it.

3. unorphaned (in our northern lights) by @morningsound15 because hELLO WAKING UP MARRIED FUFFY. and if that doesn’t sell you, it’s incredibly written, it’s angsty, riley’s dumb ass makes an unproblematic and highly entertaining appearance, and again, it’s amazing.

4. just a counterfeit james dean, which is the fanfic equivalent of running a marathon (57k words. one chapter.) but god it’s so worth it. set aside an hour or two to read it, depending on how fast you can read, and do it. faith and buffy are roommates. it’s wonderful.

5. the chosen two series, which is another marathon (350k words, two fics), but absolutely worth it. the slowest of burns, the most painful of angst, wonderfully written. it’s a commitment, but it’s one well worth making.

honorable mention: imperfections, part of @jenny-calendar‘s braveryverse. it might be my favorite fic on this list tbh (which is no shade to anyone else; it just holds a v v special place in my heart), but it’s an honorable mention because it isn’t like. A Fuffy Fic. it’s a giles/jenny fic with fuffy in it, and, to me at least, a family fic. for me, the part about it that sticks with me is how deeply found family it is—and faith is very much included in that family. it features a wonderful exploration of faith’s character and part of that is in the context of her relationship with buffy, which is. so sweet. and soft. and just everything i’ve ever wanted faith and buffy to be. it’s an incredible fic in an incredible series, and everyone should read the entire thing. it’s amazing. i sound like a broken record here, but it’s literally just that good and you should go read it. go for the fuffy if that’s what grabs you, but stay for the all-round brilliance.

shameless self promo time: my multichap wip shadow of the day is like 98% of what i’m doing with my life right now, and i think it’s pretty damn good. go read that, too. angsty fuffy s4 rewrite. i’m proud of it.

#fuffy #buffy x faith #btvs #elizadusku #answered

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padawan-historian · 5 years

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The Female Game: An Analysis of the Stormborn Dragon

SPOILER warning for Season 8, Episode 1-3 and more of a SPOILER WATCH for Season 8, Episode 4 (no plot related details, but . . . a teaspoon of character and tone vibes from the episode).

Now I know we are still wrapping our heads around what we witnessed last night on Game of Thrones. But there was one discussion that caught my attention – Daenerys character development (or lack thereof) and how women are represented on the show:

i hate that ambition in women is always used as a bad trait.

All her hard work and talk of breaking the wheel for nothing. All this talk of her being different and just and “see you for who you are” for absolutely nothing.

They should rename season 8 to “the tale of how we trashed a character’s development, made her an army of haters, just so we could make Jon Snow a hero: A study on Daenerys Targaryen.”

they really are setting up “Mad Queen” Dany and I’ll be honest, I don’t blame her at this point.

If a man acted that way it would be perfectly fine.

every single woman on game of thrones deserves better.

Ever since Game of Thrones graced the stage seven years ago, a number of fans, critics and activists have voiced concerns about the way the show portrays violence (especially sexual violence) towards female characters. However, those concerns have slowly evolved into larger conversations about the way these heroines are portrayed in comparison to power. Westeros – and most of the known world in the show – are under a patriarchal system. Men have inheritance rights, new wives join their husbands’ families and male children are given precedent over their older sisters and female relations in the line of succession (they call this primogeniture). Attempts at female rule are rare and even more rarely achieved without a healthy dose of fire and blood (search The Princess and the Queen on YouTube for more context and a juicy history lesson!).

Suspicion and hesitancy towards female rule is common in our real world (i.e. 2016 election) and is, unfortunately, not a new phenomenon. Prominent theologian, wrote in his 1558 piece, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women, that, “To promote a woman to beare rule, superioritie, dominion or empire aboue any realme, nation, or citie, is repugnant to nature, contumelie to God, a thing most contrarious to his reueled will and approued ordinance, and finallie it is the subuersion of good order, of all equitie and iustice”(Knox). Across Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism there exist exclusionary mindsets in regards to women in power dating back to antiquity. However, there are also examples of women overcoming the restrictions and barriers of their societies, such as the prominence and elevation of women within certain patriarchal systems (including Egypt, the Tang Dynasty of China, the Mongolian Empire and beyond) . Even today, within many Native American and West African communities, femaleness is connected to spiritualism – unseen forces are often defined as female, such as goddesses and masked spirits, and are often interpreted by priestesses, prophetesses, healers, fortune tellers, and female shamans. However, the dominant culture that defines our 21st century world is, largely, patriarchal and continues to prosper through the oppression of women – and, to an extent, men.

Power is power – and there is power in subjugation.

(Sidney Note: The glass ceiling metaphor should be viewed with some context – as should my statement above ^^ While times have changed and we now have female executives, college presidents, directors, governors, ambassadors and presidential candidates there are still inequities that exist. The metaphor implies that women and men have equal access to entry- and mid-level positions (Eagly and Carli). They do not. Rather than a ceiling to break through, women often have to struggle through a labyrinth, a maze filled with dead ends, false leads and towering walls. The labyrinth is even more suffocating for minority and marginalized women.

But back to the Game of Thrones universe . . . While most of the main characters have divided the fan base at some point in time (remember how we used to hate Cersei and then we felt bad and now . . . we kind of hate her again?) the discourse around Daenerys has been relatively consistent. While some see the Dragon Queen as an entitled, power-hungry tyrant slowly turning into the Mad Queen, others view her in a more sympathetic light. Daenerys – like many women – exist within a labyrinth. At the end is the Iron Throne. But the roads, for much of her life, were determined for her. Her (thankfully) deceased brother Viserys sold her in exchange for military support. Even after his golden death, Dany was still trapped in the maze, struggling to navigate the seemingly endless corridors. She has been raped, abandoned, deceived and . . . perhaps, most damning of all, she has been wrong.

Dany has made some questionable choices throughout her reign and while this is nothing new when it comes to GOT characters, what is new is that she is in a position of considerable power. Besides Cersei and, at one time, Grandma Olenna, Daenerys is one of the most powerful women in the series. Her dragons carry the weight of nuclear weapons and, after taking several fiery walks, hatching (or incubating) three ancient creatures an liberating a city from the chains of slavery . . . well, you can see why she thinks her destiny is to sit upon the Iron Throne.

Recently, the discourse about the portrayal of women in cinema has lit a fuse within the feminist movement. While I will say that some people tend to over analyze the actions of every character - relating them back to contemporary issues, it’s no state secret that female characters are often held to a very unhealthy set of standards:

Be strong, but not emasculating.

Be desirable, but not whorish.

Be charming, but not condescending.

Be ambitious, but not too ambitious.

The criticism about her representation in the show I think comes from a place of genuine concern. These fans want her to succeed because, seven hells, this woman has been through A LOT. And while there is a dose of sexism in the discourse, I do think that some of the backlash towards the show and creative team is unwarranted.

Daenerys Stormborn is NOT the protagonist in the traditional sense. She is a principle character who is heavily featured in both the books and Martin’s 5 novels. If you look at the charts below, people (who are more tech savvy than me) created comparison charts to help determine principle characters:

You may not like that Jon is painted as the hero or that Tyrion is featured prominently, but EVERY character has faced failures and loss in this series.

The freedom to lead is not freedom from failure.

No character is entirely good or entirely bad – Dany included. From white savior to female icon, Daenerys has been a polarizing character since season 1. She has made choices that, even when justifiable, were not . . . the most diplomatic solutions. She has a temper. She can be impulsive. But she is also affectionate with her friends. She is nurturing towards her dragons (in the books, her ancestors used whips to direct their dragons). She is also a queen . . . living in a patriarchal system that Aegon Targaryen established almost 300 years prior. She is single handedly trying to undo 300 years of patriarchal feudalism. That’s a pretty ambitious goal!

While Westerosi politics are similar to our own, they do not have cemented democratic institutions. The Night’s Watch is probably the closest example we have of a meritocracy (rule by merit or ability). The majority of the kingdom falls under the rule of one monarch who distributes semiautonomous authority through bonds of vassalage.

Change requires sacrifice . . . and compromise.

When was the last time you saw a high fantasy where, at one point, there were 5 women in positions of power? The closest moment in European history where that was a thing was when Catherine the Great of Russia, Madame de Pompadour, the Mistress of the King of France, and Empress Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire combined their forces to fight against Fredrick II of Prussia during the 7 Years War (Fred was kinda a misogynist and coined the phrase The League of the Three Petticoats to describe the three women). Even in early English history, women who fought for power, like Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, were dubbed as she-wolves or reckless, power-hungry queens. Hmmm . . . sound familiar?

Now Dany does have a temper. But so did Robert Baratheon. She can be impulsive. She has a sense of entitlement, as do most monarchs and presidents. She is compassionate, loyal to her friends and nurturing towards her dragons (in the books, her ancestors used whips to direct their dragons). She likes to be in control, but she is also willing to listen to others. But she does get angry and she does have insecurities. She is also a human and – like most humans – she is a bundle of idiosyncrasies, conflicting ideas, blinding anxieties and soaring dreams.

Are there problems with the series? Yes.

Have female (and male) characters been portrayed in ways that are questionable? Yeah.

Would a more socially conscious director craft a different narrative or create a more dynamic story? Maybe.

Are you still gonna watch the next episode this Sunday? Most likely.

If you look for flaws, you will find flaws – because, this story was not created by you. So write your own story, whip up a fanfic or make a headcannon!

And besides, there are plenty of real world issues surrounding women that you can (and should) put your energy towards.

#wow + beyond #wow analysis #game of thrones #got analysis #daenerys targaryen #feminism #women of wonder and beyond #writing #character development #fantasy writing

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kalinara · 7 years

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As I said in my last post, one of my biggest complaints about fandom discussion about Rip Hunter is how it always resorts to easily debunked accusations rather than an honest and interesting discussion about the man’s ACTUAL flaws.

Rip is a complicated guy. He has a lot of flaws. That’s part of what makes him interesting. Unfortunately, since I generally end up finding myself motivated to defend the guy from baseless accusations, I never really get around to talking about what I think his flaws actually are.

So this is my list of what I, as a biased Rip fan, see as Rip Hunter’s primary flaws. (This is by no means exclusive, by the way.)

1. Rip Hunter is single-focused. This can be a strength and a flaw. But the fact of the matter is that when Rip has a goal in mind, he tends to ignore other people that can be helped, other good that can be done and thoughtlessly puts himself and other people at considerable, and sometimes unnecessary, risk.

2. Rip Hunter is secretive and dishonest. Rip is a funny guy when it comes to honesty. He seems to be a pretty terrible liar, and any time he does overtly lie to the team, it comes out within the same episode. But that doesn’t generally stop him from trying. Even at times when the lie is less useful than the truth. (For example, the crew probably would have been more inclined to help rather than less, if he’d openly admitted that his own family had died at Savage’s hands.)

Rip is far better, however, at lying by omission. The man keeps a LOT of secrets and a good many of those secrets directly impact the team and their safety. The team had the right to know about the spear of destiny, or at least that it was likely to make the mission they’d signed on for more dangerous. Sara had the right to know about Laurel’s death long before she actually found out.

3. Related to #2: Rip does not trust his team. I think he wants to trust them, and certainly, he wouldn’t have recruited them for either mission if he didn’t trust them on some level. But the fact of the matter is that most of Rip’s suffering in season two was absolutely unnecessary and brought about, primarily, because Rip never chose to share his burden with the team.

If the team had known about the spear, or at least that Rip was protecting part of an artifact from people who’d stop at nothing to get it, then it’s possible they could have helped him. He might not have had to lobotomize himself. He might not have fallen into Eobard’s hands. And it might not have been so catastrophic that the only person who had any idea of where the spear pieces were ended up under Eobard’s control.

4. Rip makes unilateral decisions for the team. This connects to 2 and 3 of course. Possibly, it’s all the same flaw in the end. Rip does most of what he does with noble intentions, but the fact of the matter is that he generally doesn’t consult them first. ESPECIALLY when he gets it in his head to try to protect them.

Rip freaks out after Snart’s death and abandons the team in 2016, with no discussion and no closure or choice.

Rip decides to fly the last meteor piece into the sun, risking his own life in the process (and possibly stranding the team in 2033, though I doubt he was thinking about that), again without consulting the team.

Rip scatters the team to protect them from the nuclear blast, again, without consultation. It’s very likely that, had they known what was at stake, most of the team would have wanted to stay on board.

Similarly, Rip decides to lobotomize himself without even Gideon’s input (going so far as to shut her down temporarily so she can’t stop him.)

Rip means well, in each of these situations, but the fact of the matter is that he owes them the right to make these decisions for themselves. They deserve to know what he’s prioritizing and why, what dangers he’s expecting, and to have a say in their own fate.

5. Rip is somewhat judgmental. Especially early on in season one. He had a clear idea of who (he thought) the team was, and why he was recruiting them. There were certain characters that he was pretty quick to get along with: Sara, Martin, Jax, Kendra, even Ray to some extent. And then of course there was Snart and Rory. One of the quieter themes of the first half of season one involved Rip having to re-evaluate his initial thoughts on each team member, as he realized that Martin was more idealistic and rebellious than expected, that Sara and Kendra had their uncontrollable berserker qualities, that Leonard Snart actually did care about (some) people on the team, and so on and so forth. And of course, this ended up coming to a head with Mick Rory.

6. Rip is hot-tempered and emotional which gets in the way of his good sense. A LOT. I maintain that the Marooned confrontation was provoked, and NOT by Rip, but that still doesn’t excuse his harsh reaction. Or the stupidity of having it out while being prisoners on an enemy-controlled ship!

I always get amused when I see Rip characterized as cold in fanfics, because I think the show gives us a character who is the exact opposite. And that’s where he tends to fuck up. Rip burns hot. He’s impulsive. He has a temper. And we’ve seen him, more than once, disrupt his OWN plans because of guilt or altruism or anger.

He had a grand total of ONE workable plan against Savage, which he tossed out the window to get Carter’s body back. He knew that he was going to be leaving the team very soon, but had to explode into a temperamental lecture about everything they’d done wrong. He couldn’t follow through with killing Savage, the one time that it was actually fool-proof because his conscience got in the way. And so on and so forth.

Hell, even his capture by the Legion kind of fits this, because it’s pretty clear that whatever his post-Time Drive lobotomy plans ACTUALLY were, they didn’t involve Phil Gasmer stupidly jumping out into an ambush, getting captured, getting his tooth extracted, and then having his backup mind drive re-written.

Honestly, I doubt that Rip Hunter has ever made a cold, clear-headed, unclouded-by-emotion decision in his life. And if he had, he fucked it up about three minutes later in a fit of pique.

7. Rip is stubborn and arrogant.

This is a pretty consistent character trait. Rip is a Time Master and knows he’s a Time Master, and as mentioned, wasn’t particularly inclined to consult with the group. Often times, he’s right. He does generally have a superior knowledge base than most of the rest of the team. But then we have situations like River of Time, where Rip’s insistence that he had piloted the Waverider for thirteen years and knew what she could do, exploded pretty royally in their faces.

Rip’s trust in the Time Masters overall is a pretty good example of this. It was somewhat understandable in White Knights, even though he ignored Mick’s realization that Druce had set up an obvious trap. By River of Time, there was no reason to expect that they’d be dealt with fairly.

His handling of Sara’s issues in Star City highlighted this arrogance too. He was dead set in the way that he was looking at the issue and refused to consider her side. He was, at least, smart enough, and cared enough, to wait for her longer than he promised. But it was a good thing that Martin talked sense into him when he did.

8. Rip is ridiculously self-destructive.

I don’t really think I have to elaborate on this one. Do I? Just watch like ANY episode of the show that features Rip. Yeesh.

9. Rip is A SOCIAL TRAINWRECK.

I mean, really, does this need an explanation? The man is pretty much incapable of anything resembling a normal social interaction with anyone! I think the closest thing we’ve seen to a casual conversation with anyone who wasn’t Gideon was with Doctor Mid-Nite right before he killed him!

His general social interactions with people he actually LIKES seems to be: make unilateral decision, apologize, get punched in the face, apologize again, move on.

Honestly, I think the only character who’s ever gotten anything personal about the guy that didn’t directly have to do with whatever disaster was directly at hand was Jax, when Rip revealed his candy preferences.

There are some implications, I think, that he was pretty friendly with Mid-Nite and Commander Steel in the JSA. At least there are implications that he actually did discuss some personal matters such as his family and his concern about the Time Masters. But they were still pretty formal with each other.

Presumably, he managed some kind of positive social interaction with Miranda and Jonah. But then, Miranda was from the same fucked up society and thus likely had the same frame of reference. And Jonah...well, he was pretty quick to forgive Rip in the end, which probably implies he’s used to Rip being fucking weird. Also, remember how he came back to the ship after being rescued in Outlaw Country and only once inside did he go “where’s Rip?” Like he actually expected the guy to be hiding in his office AGAIN.

And to round it out to an even 10. Rip is a TERRIBLE LEADER.

Bluntly speaking, he is. He was from the pilot onward. He’s known from day one that he cannot control any of these people. He’s never been willing to take any steps necessary to control any of these people. He doesn’t even try to manage tempers, or rein in idealism. He doesn’t try to forge emotional connections with the crew, or maybe clear the air with the people that he clashes with the most BEFORE things explode horribly.

He seems to do well enough in field missions or pitched battles, when he’s right there, they’re all in the thick of it, and there’s a very clear objective. But as soon as it gets to a more general mission, when people go off on their own, he’s sunk.

So, there you go. Ten flaws. I could probably expand that list farther pretty easily. Rip’s actual flaws are part of what makes him such an interesting character, which is why it gets so frustrating when people are lazy critics, and resort to blatant misrepresentations instead.

#rip hunter #legends of tomorrow #rip hunter defence squad #...does it count as a defence post if it is critical?#Should I be tagging this ANTI-Rip Hunter?#Oh well

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