I do think that Tara is a far better modern heroine than Sookie. I think they just make Sookie too obvious. I'm over the diaphonous white dresses with pumped up cleavage and intermittant perkiness/moping. Tara is straight-up honest, that goes a long way when dealing with flaws.
I think it's lead character syndrome. So often secondary characters are allowed to be flawed without being propped whereas with leads we're always being nudged to root for them in a way that we're never sure whether we're to take their bad actions as actually being bad... or maybe that just Post-Joss Whedon syndrome. At some point during the run of BtVS I lost the ability to really tell whether or not I'm seeing what a show wants me to see.
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Date: 2009-06-14 06:10 pm (UTC)I think it's lead character syndrome. So often secondary characters are allowed to be flawed without being propped whereas with leads we're always being nudged to root for them in a way that we're never sure whether we're to take their bad actions as actually being bad... or maybe that just Post-Joss Whedon syndrome. At some point during the run of BtVS I lost the ability to really tell whether or not I'm seeing what a show wants me to see.