No Bond girl ever took over the story - they were all pretty much throwaways. except Diana Rigg who was AWESOME and of course they killed her at the end of the movie.
In a way Skyfall, the latest Bond movie, did focus on a Bond girl, if you count female!M as a 'Bond girl'. A lot of people in fandom praised the movie because of this, but I actually hated it for Spoilery Reasons. I've been a Bond fan since I was twelve, and for me it has been always been about the women - I loved Diana Rigg's character, and also Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore (but hated the fact that she was was 'de-lesbified' in both the book and the movie) - but I have actually been more of a book fan. The books are actually much better when it comes to female characters than the movies are (though obviously not without their problems because Fleming is a sexist dinosaur), and one of the books, The Spy Who Loved Me, is even told from the POV of the Bond girl. And of course, when I was twelve, I used to imagine that I was a secret agent on a mission with Bond, and in my fantasies, he would always get into trouble and I would have to rescue him :D
I really liked Brennan as a character, but I can't watch Bones anymore because of the Brennan/Booth romance. I just hate that kind of Meant to Be het romances, where all the characters are rooting for the two to get together. I also don't like how the show treats Brennan's atheism.
(I've been meaning to check out Parks and Rec, but it's not on Finnish TV yet so I haven't had the chance)
I was actually thinking just the other day that the only TV-show that I watch that has a m/m relationship as its main focus is The Mentalist, and even there the m/m relationship is the focus only in theory, and the main onscreen relationship is m/f. Most of the shows I watch have either female protagonists (United States of Tara, Nurse Jackie, Medium, Buffy, Miranda, Cougar Town, No1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Fringe...), or ensembles with multiple women (Eureka, Babylon 5, ER, The Misfits...). I don't usually complain about too many men on TV because I'm too busy watching my shows about women :D
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In a way Skyfall, the latest Bond movie, did focus on a Bond girl, if you count female!M as a 'Bond girl'. A lot of people in fandom praised the movie because of this, but I actually hated it for Spoilery Reasons. I've been a Bond fan since I was twelve, and for me it has been always been about the women - I loved Diana Rigg's character, and also Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore (but hated the fact that she was was 'de-lesbified' in both the book and the movie) - but I have actually been more of a book fan. The books are actually much better when it comes to female characters than the movies are (though obviously not without their problems because Fleming is a sexist dinosaur), and one of the books, The Spy Who Loved Me, is even told from the POV of the Bond girl. And of course, when I was twelve, I used to imagine that I was a secret agent on a mission with Bond, and in my fantasies, he would always get into trouble and I would have to rescue him :D
I really liked Brennan as a character, but I can't watch Bones anymore because of the Brennan/Booth romance. I just hate that kind of Meant to Be het romances, where all the characters are rooting for the two to get together. I also don't like how the show treats Brennan's atheism.
(I've been meaning to check out Parks and Rec, but it's not on Finnish TV yet so I haven't had the chance)
I was actually thinking just the other day that the only TV-show that I watch that has a m/m relationship as its main focus is The Mentalist, and even there the m/m relationship is the focus only in theory, and the main onscreen relationship is m/f. Most of the shows I watch have either female protagonists (United States of Tara, Nurse Jackie, Medium, Buffy, Miranda, Cougar Town, No1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Fringe...), or ensembles with multiple women (Eureka, Babylon 5, ER, The Misfits...). I don't usually complain about too many men on TV because I'm too busy watching my shows about women :D