This is a brilliant comment (and so's the following discussion), and I think you're very on the money. (Although I couldn't help but be amused that Doctor Who - which is of course not a story about female power - cheerfully uses both tropes, grabbing people like River or Jack from the future when they need kick-ass fighters without any hangups, and more commonly ordinary girls and boys from today for more traditional empowering stories...)
Anyway, yes. And as for point two, then 'My Medea' does a beautiful job of illustrating the problems, summed up in this comment by laurashapiro'we're told to accept that the women are victimized, because they will come to power later. The vid, IMO, asks whether that exchange is worth it.'
Which, again, is why Buffy is the one that stands out, because she is never the victim the way River or Echo/Caroline is.
The comics... not so much, it seems to me, no matter how magically Buffy suddenly saves something on the last 2 pages. That subtle shift in paradigm doesn't in and of itself make it a good or a bad story, just one that's harder to connect to the old one. It's magical already with the superpowers and all that nonsense. :(
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Anyway, yes. And as for point two, then 'My Medea' does a beautiful job of illustrating the problems, summed up in this comment by
Which, again, is why Buffy is the one that stands out, because she is never the victim the way River or Echo/Caroline is.
The comics... not so much, it seems to me, no matter how magically Buffy suddenly saves something on the last 2 pages. That subtle shift in paradigm doesn't in and of itself make it a good or a bad story, just one that's harder to connect to the old one.
It's magical already with the superpowers and all that nonsense. :(