The Donny and his writers "trashed" every important female character at some point. Inside due to overlength -- Fic Recon

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Date Posted: 08:21:13 03/05/08 Wed
Author: janlaw
Subject: The Donny and his writers "trashed" every important female character at some point. Inside due to overlength
In reply to: JJ (Ronda)--I'm not saying Mac is stupid, rather that the writers were stupid in this case. 's message, "That could work too. Mac forgetting to get a divorce is worse than Jordan forgetting that cough syrup had alcohol in it. I guess TPTB just liked for the female characters to do stupid things sometimes." on 23:35:08 03/04/08 Tue

Kate Pike was portrayed as a woman who slept around (I wonder why Harm was never portrayed as having exhibited poor judgment regarding his personal relationships - there was always a double standard there); Annie as close to a nut case; Jordan as a woman who just dumped a man she supposedly loved when he made a career move she didn't like; Renee as a blond bimbo; Dr. Walden as a woman who dumped a wonderful man who loved her b/c he dared to criticize her son's behavior; Meredith as unfaithful in nearly a "public" way; Harriet as a woman unwilling to move from her lovely home (for a reason that made little sense) even though she certainly knew Bud was a terminal LT if he stayed at JAG HQ; Coates for her misjudgment regarding Pia etc etc. Then there's Mac - her failure as a lawyer to get a divorce was totally unnecessary; the brief fling with a senior officer the same; the nonsense with Bugme's ring on her right hand; the affair with Webb ... there were too many examples for it to have been anything but deliberate -- what was done went beyond portraying characters as having "human" issues or problems to make them more interesting.

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there was always character assasination on the women - Harriet had that miscarriage when she was young we never knew about - Mac of course was an alchoholic, Don't forget what they did to Imes. Of course you mentioned turning meredith into a whore - and Coates started out as a theif - so no - there wasn't a female in the show who survived unscathed by Donny's view of women. (NT) -- chris k, 09:02:27 03/07/08 Fri
- I don't see things like Mac's alcoholism and Coates' past as character assassination. Who would those characters be without that history? I definitely agree about some of the midstream changes, though, like Carolyn Imes and Meredith. The more glaring thing to me is that the men weren't really written with similar flaws and failings. I think the only male character treated that way was Harm Sr., with the revelation of his fling with Jenny Lake. (NT) -- lska, 14:57:58 03/07/08 Fri

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