More Supergirl, finished disc two
Jan. 8th, 2019 03:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSo far I am not liking the story arc with Reign. Stories where one lacks capacity to choose are the utterly most boring stories. I mean, they don't teach you anything, they're not a thought exercise in what could you do better, they don't demonstrate real humans acting in realistic ways. They're just... there. Here is the scary thing. It Could Happen To You!
Except if real mental health problems happen there are options, so, no, it could not in fact happen to you.
And think how much stronger the story could be if Reign is another layer of complicating how Kara sees Krypton. If she's a woman who just found out about her heritage as an exiled scion of a repressed religion. If a priestess can end up in Fort Rozz for believing this stuff? Which isn't exactly what they said, but, if? No freedom of religion. The religion that gave her so much comfort has to come to terms with what it buried. By way of this woman who discovered a cultural heritage quite different from Kara and Kal, and bought into it just as hard.
If she has choices, and is talked out of them, there's a story. If she's just being treated as a thing, that's... well, a story, but... why is the story about women's power the story about achieving basic agency, over and over?
But I've seen gif sets of how this ends so I'm not, like, flinching like I would from an unknown story. They're not going to kill her. The story keeps bringing up 'stronger together' so I'm fairly confident that she'll get by with a little help from her friends.
But taking her choices away makes it so much weaker than it could be. I mean, she finds out she's super, and she gets a message from her parents, and... anything except flips a mind control switch. Anything they say that can lead her to act like this from choice, that would be a more interesting story.
If I was going to make a rule for future stories it would be No Mind Control. Have people raised by people that lied to them, sure, have them being mislead and pressured and everything that can actually happen here, but mind control can just go away.
Except if real mental health problems happen there are options, so, no, it could not in fact happen to you.
And think how much stronger the story could be if Reign is another layer of complicating how Kara sees Krypton. If she's a woman who just found out about her heritage as an exiled scion of a repressed religion. If a priestess can end up in Fort Rozz for believing this stuff? Which isn't exactly what they said, but, if? No freedom of religion. The religion that gave her so much comfort has to come to terms with what it buried. By way of this woman who discovered a cultural heritage quite different from Kara and Kal, and bought into it just as hard.
If she has choices, and is talked out of them, there's a story. If she's just being treated as a thing, that's... well, a story, but... why is the story about women's power the story about achieving basic agency, over and over?
But I've seen gif sets of how this ends so I'm not, like, flinching like I would from an unknown story. They're not going to kill her. The story keeps bringing up 'stronger together' so I'm fairly confident that she'll get by with a little help from her friends.
But taking her choices away makes it so much weaker than it could be. I mean, she finds out she's super, and she gets a message from her parents, and... anything except flips a mind control switch. Anything they say that can lead her to act like this from choice, that would be a more interesting story.
If I was going to make a rule for future stories it would be No Mind Control. Have people raised by people that lied to them, sure, have them being mislead and pressured and everything that can actually happen here, but mind control can just go away.