Suits, WTF
Aug. 9th, 2012 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarrenI firmly believe shows should tell the story they want to tell, and if it doesn’t sell me, I’ll stop watching. Sometimes I’ll come back to it later – like s4 Angel, gave up on the Cordy/Connor storyline, rejoined the show for an awesome season 5. Sometimes it doesn’t work, gave up on SGA in s4, went back and watched a few more eps, gave up again.
So, Suits. I really, really, really do not like plots about backstabbing and infighting and humiliation, so the last few eps I’m kind of whimpering a lot, and have run out of the room at least twice. I’ve only stuck with it for the Harvey/Mike and for the awesomeness of Donna and Jessica, and for the surprising depth they’ve given Lewis this season.
Okay, Rachel’s always been there for the eye-candy – the painted on outfits, the slow mo shots, and the way the camera pans up her body, but Jessica and Donna were strong, awesome, women. Look, I like characters that have flaws. I don’t expect, or want, female characters to be perfect, but IMO, in the space of three episodes they’ve practically committed character assassination.
Possibly I’m overreacting, especially about Donna, who I somewhat identify with, given I have a similar relationship with my boss. Okay, she screwed up, fair enough, I can even, squinting, see her hesitating about revealing it, because she is protecting Harvey, but to actually destroy the document, even after Hero!Mike discovered her crime and told her not to destroy it and to man up and tell Harvey! And then, THEN, to refuse to testify just because Harvey didn’t call her to ask her himself. I get that she could go to prison (still not buying that she would destroy the doc!!) but to make this about her hurt feelings, and then, then when Hero!Mike convinces her to come in, to make this all about her being in love with Harvey! AAARRRGH.
And it’s just, just, the counterpoint being this whole thing being centred around Harvey’s integrity. So we have Hero!Harvey and his shiny integrity, and Mike being all super! and Harvey’s equal! and then we have Donna, whose integrity and dignity is being stripped from her piece by piece. AAARGH.
Possibly overreacting.
Which brings me to Jessica. I am having to assume that because a man wrote this, he really, really doesn’t understand that with one action he has destroyed Jessica’s character, for me, at least.
We find out that in college Jessica was competing with another woman for a coveted job. The woman got drunk at a party and passed out. Jessica stripped her naked and left her in a place where all her peers and professors and the person hiring for the job would find her. Deliberately, just to ruin her chance at getting the job. And then when they meet up now, Jessica is not the slightest bit sorry, fails to apologise at all until she needs something from this woman, obviously insincerely.
I actually don’t have so much of a problem with the underhandedness, it’s a cutthroat business – but to leave another woman naked and vulnerable like that – not just the humiliation, but at risk from attack, is just DESPICABLE.
Honest question – would any woman honestly do that to another woman? Any woman that we’re supposed to have any respect for and not believe is just evil, that is. Yes I am playing the gender card.
So, Suits. I really, really, really do not like plots about backstabbing and infighting and humiliation, so the last few eps I’m kind of whimpering a lot, and have run out of the room at least twice. I’ve only stuck with it for the Harvey/Mike and for the awesomeness of Donna and Jessica, and for the surprising depth they’ve given Lewis this season.
Okay, Rachel’s always been there for the eye-candy – the painted on outfits, the slow mo shots, and the way the camera pans up her body, but Jessica and Donna were strong, awesome, women. Look, I like characters that have flaws. I don’t expect, or want, female characters to be perfect, but IMO, in the space of three episodes they’ve practically committed character assassination.
Possibly I’m overreacting, especially about Donna, who I somewhat identify with, given I have a similar relationship with my boss. Okay, she screwed up, fair enough, I can even, squinting, see her hesitating about revealing it, because she is protecting Harvey, but to actually destroy the document, even after Hero!Mike discovered her crime and told her not to destroy it and to man up and tell Harvey! And then, THEN, to refuse to testify just because Harvey didn’t call her to ask her himself. I get that she could go to prison (still not buying that she would destroy the doc!!) but to make this about her hurt feelings, and then, then when Hero!Mike convinces her to come in, to make this all about her being in love with Harvey! AAARRRGH.
And it’s just, just, the counterpoint being this whole thing being centred around Harvey’s integrity. So we have Hero!Harvey and his shiny integrity, and Mike being all super! and Harvey’s equal! and then we have Donna, whose integrity and dignity is being stripped from her piece by piece. AAARGH.
Possibly overreacting.
Which brings me to Jessica. I am having to assume that because a man wrote this, he really, really doesn’t understand that with one action he has destroyed Jessica’s character, for me, at least.
We find out that in college Jessica was competing with another woman for a coveted job. The woman got drunk at a party and passed out. Jessica stripped her naked and left her in a place where all her peers and professors and the person hiring for the job would find her. Deliberately, just to ruin her chance at getting the job. And then when they meet up now, Jessica is not the slightest bit sorry, fails to apologise at all until she needs something from this woman, obviously insincerely.
I actually don’t have so much of a problem with the underhandedness, it’s a cutthroat business – but to leave another woman naked and vulnerable like that – not just the humiliation, but at risk from attack, is just DESPICABLE.
Honest question – would any woman honestly do that to another woman? Any woman that we’re supposed to have any respect for and not believe is just evil, that is. Yes I am playing the gender card.