Yes, what you said, exactly. I don't tend to watch many shows with 2D female characters, either, but I see plenty of them in the movies, unfortunately.
Sometimes I think "ass-kicking" is becoming too stereotypical a trait for people who don't want to bother developing their female characters but are canny enough to know audiences will notice if they make them too "girly."
This reminds me of an article I read that said that BSG wasn't a feminist show because of characters like Cally, who cried and didn't beat guys up (it was great when she bit that one guy's ear off, but then she never did anything like that again!), and got married and had a baby, etc. She was not an awesome female character! Starbuck is just a ruse to blind us to the rest of the sucky female characters!
And I was like, someone has missed the boat on what makes a female character good. It's not that she has to act like a man. Cally may not have been everyone's cup of tea, but she was definitely a three-dimensional character, who didn't exist just to prop up a male character; that makes her better than like 75% of female characters out there.
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Sometimes I think "ass-kicking" is becoming too stereotypical a trait for people who don't want to bother developing their female characters but are canny enough to know audiences will notice if they make them too "girly."
This reminds me of an article I read that said that BSG wasn't a feminist show because of characters like Cally, who cried and didn't beat guys up (it was great when she bit that one guy's ear off, but then she never did anything like that again!), and got married and had a baby, etc. She was not an awesome female character! Starbuck is just a ruse to blind us to the rest of the sucky female characters!
And I was like, someone has missed the boat on what makes a female character good. It's not that she has to act like a man. Cally may not have been everyone's cup of tea, but she was definitely a three-dimensional character, who didn't exist just to prop up a male character; that makes her better than like 75% of female characters out there.