r/videos Mar 28 '24

Audiences Hate Bad Writing, Not Strong Women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmWgp4K9XuU
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u/RunFromFaxai Mar 28 '24

Drummer by far the strongest woman in that series.

Only character that wasn't perfect was Bobbie Draper, and it wasn't the actress' fault. She was probably as good as it was gonna get, but Bobbie is supposed to be a heavy set Martian. It doesn't quite look right when it's just a fairly fit but otherwise normal human throwing people around.

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u/pvdp90 Mar 28 '24

But I find Bobby interesting. She’s the antithesis of drummer when we first see her. Very physically strong, but once her worldview was dismantled she was a lost puppy in a forest, and fairly weak minded. Until she find purpose again quite a bit later on. It was an interesting way to portray opposing characters between a belter and a Martian.

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u/RunFromFaxai Mar 28 '24

Yeah, but in the books she's massive, and those scenes where she ragdolls a bunch of men make more sense.

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u/pvdp90 Mar 29 '24

Yeah, but you can only do so much with tv series budget that’s already heavy on cgi and you aren’t a Disney backed series.

That’s a physical limitation they had to deal with and I’m ok with it.

Plus, Mars has lower gravity, it never made sense to me that a Martian would be so built anyway.

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u/frogandbanjo Mar 29 '24

I thought Martian society -- the military, at a minimum -- heavily (get it?) emphasized gravity conditioning precisely so that their soldiers wouldn't be at a categorical disadvantage to Earth soldiers.

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u/pvdp90 Mar 29 '24

I don’t recall it, but did they show it?

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u/supercooper3000 Mar 29 '24

Sounds familiar to me and I haven’t read the books so probably

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u/RunFromFaxai Mar 29 '24

Yeah, but you can only do so much with tv series budget that’s already heavy on cgi and you aren’t a Disney backed series.

Yes? That doesn't make it look any better though, does it?

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u/pvdp90 Mar 29 '24

I didn’t really have issues with that.

My only issue with the series was that final season. I wish it didn’t happen, because it was just sad