#and sometimes she gets nuanced good writing that like divert from the whole. drugs thing

[coolgirl]

🔥 poison ivy

I enjoy poison ivy as everyone knows but it annoys me lately how people like. Are trying to turn her into a hero or sometimes even antihero... Like she's.. evil.. and that's fine you can like evil characters who are written in interesting ways and have potential.. and also annoys me a lot how like. Ok I understand how female characters who have been around for ages have had arcs and writing that has not aged well and that were obvious fantasies of male writers, and people who like ivy understand too and they dgaf about her old weird arcs but they don't hold characters like Talia or Jade or Shado in the same regard and it's extremely transparent lol when a white woman gets weird characterization that's sexualised to hell and back it's bad writing and she's good or #shewasright but when a character of color is hit with the same stick you're evil for liking them like.. make it make sense

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[allisoooon]

Luther received a lot of hate during s1. Allison receives a lot of hate after s3 (even more than Luther bcs some points of her story are more controversial). Do you think this will make the writers more cautious? For example, if they intend to make another character spiral out of control. Do you think they'll become apprehensive about exploring the subject thoroughly in fear of alienating the fandom and it will just be a watered down version?

I hope not. I'd rather they go too far than not far enough.

In the 90's when Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was one of my favorite shows, the fandom looooooved the main villain. He's a really fucking great villain. One of the top 2-3 Trek villains. Thing is, the fandom kinda gave him the sexy, Draco-in-Leather-Pants treatment. I don't remember which chief writer had a big problem with it (though I think Ronald D. Moore had the most creative control at this time), but they were so unhappy with the way the fans kinda sanitized him that they took him off the fucking rails. They dialed way down on the charm that made the character so interesting (even though he truly was fucking evil) and just had him go batshit. No more layers, no more nuance, just evil. To the point where Sisko had a whole speech about how evil Dukat was (this doesn't sound like Moore tbh, but might have been his creative decision, I'm not sure).

The point is, when you start writing in order to get a specific reaction out of your audience instead of focusing on writing something good, you will definitely deliver inferior writing. This isn't to say you can't change your mind when you're writing based on your audience's reaction. Sometimes, your audience is letting you know you made the wrong choice. But it's better to make the choice you believe in than to divert just so you can change the fandom's mind.

Luther was rescued from the scrappy heap very naturally, without altering his characterization--it just took till s3 for him to get a plot that really showed off his most endearing qualities. We saw those qualities before. There was just something about his plot this season that resonated with people. He was never changed so the fandom would like him.

That's going to be the key with Allison next season. Because what people are forgetting with her, and with a lot of this season, is that the show isn't over. Some things have yet to pay off not because they won't, but because they haven't yet. The writers need to trust in their plan for her and not overcompensate for the fan reaction. Write a good arc, not your own emotional reaction to your fans.

But even this season, in a sense, we got a watered-down Allison compared to what she's like in the comics. Watered-down isn't the right term, I suppose, but she's definitely still more pleasant this season than she is during her feud with Vanya in the comics. Seriously. At least our Allison wasn't psychologically torturing Viktor while he was too brain damaged and drugged to remember what he did wrong. This was the closest we got to seeing comics!Allison, though.