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Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon I choose Libby from Lost and every Lost fan knows why. With her the writers dangled one of the most interesting plot hooks in the show's history in front of the viewer only to come out and literally say later that they had simply decided not to do it anymore. On a show as big and intricate as Lost it's impossible not to have some things get shelved permanently, but in Libby's case it was was over the top. And yes they sort of addressed it in the show's last few episodes, enough to give closure to what they'd created anyway, but it was nowhere near as satisfying as what could have been.
HONORABLE MENTION: LEGEND OF THE FIVE RINGS - L5R screwed over pretty much EVERY character involved during its notorious Hidden Emperor story arc but the heavy-hitting female leads got it worst of all. Bayushi Kachiko, at one point the game setting's primary viewpoint character/antagonist was revealed to have a kharmic link to a demigod in the setting. This got shuffled into the background and dealt with in an afterthought short fiction that wasn't even publicized. The list goes one, full of names no one recognizes: Isawa Ozuki, Doji Shizue, Daidoji Rekai, Shiba Tsukune. Just trust me when I say each one had enough awesome to be the hero of an epic novel series of her own and each one got swept under the rug in the scope of conflict that made no sense and was barely explained.
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates - If I'm lucky enough to like a piece of fiction that other people I know do we usually all like the same things. However, I read on TV Tropes that apparently the Pirates of the Caribbean fandom loathes Elizabeth Swan for the mere fact that she exists and therefore gets in the way of all their little boy-on-boy fanfic fantasies about the male leads. Too bad fandom! She's a lady pirate and you know how I feel about those. Eilizabeth's a bad ass and she's here to stay so all you little fanfic girls can take your Jack Sparrows and Will Turners and suck it. I know you want to anyway.
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon I choose Libby from Lost and every Lost fan knows why. With her the writers dangled one of the most interesting plot hooks in the show's history in front of the viewer only to come out and literally say later that they had simply decided not to do it anymore. On a show as big and intricate as Lost it's impossible not to have some things get shelved permanently, but in Libby's case it was was over the top. And yes they sort of addressed it in the show's last few episodes, enough to give closure to what they'd created anyway, but it was nowhere near as satisfying as what could have been.
HONORABLE MENTION: LEGEND OF THE FIVE RINGS - L5R screwed over pretty much EVERY character involved during its notorious Hidden Emperor story arc but the heavy-hitting female leads got it worst of all. Bayushi Kachiko, at one point the game setting's primary viewpoint character/antagonist was revealed to have a kharmic link to a demigod in the setting. This got shuffled into the background and dealt with in an afterthought short fiction that wasn't even publicized. The list goes one, full of names no one recognizes: Isawa Ozuki, Doji Shizue, Daidoji Rekai, Shiba Tsukune. Just trust me when I say each one had enough awesome to be the hero of an epic novel series of her own and each one got swept under the rug in the scope of conflict that made no sense and was barely explained.
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates - If I'm lucky enough to like a piece of fiction that other people I know do we usually all like the same things. However, I read on TV Tropes that apparently the Pirates of the Caribbean fandom loathes Elizabeth Swan for the mere fact that she exists and therefore gets in the way of all their little boy-on-boy fanfic fantasies about the male leads. Too bad fandom! She's a lady pirate and you know how I feel about those. Eilizabeth's a bad ass and she's here to stay so all you little fanfic girls can take your Jack Sparrows and Will Turners and suck it. I know you want to anyway.
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