What? Are those... AWESOME LADIES???
Jun. 21st, 2011 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
next_to_normalWhy yes, they are! After an... extended hiatus, shall we say, the Awesome Ladies meme is back!
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Katherine Pierce, Nina Myers, Lilah Morgan, Admiral Helena Cain
I started out just planning to do one picspam of all the antagonizing ladies, but... Katherine kind of took over? So she gets her own. One of the things I really wanted to do with this category is to look at it as a relationship - in order to be an antagonist, you have to, well, antagonize someone. :) So I not only wanted this to be a picspam of awesome ladies, but specifically showing them with the men (and occasionally women) they were playing off of. Which, naturally, when one of the relationships you want to explore is Damon/Katherine/Stefan, IT'S GONNA GET CRAZY, YO.
I kind of felt conflicted - mainly with Lilah - in that I wanted to show both sides of the story, you know? Sometimes the antagonists have the upper hand, but eventually they always get what's coming to them, and so that's why we have Damon trying to stake Katherine, Nina in handcuffs, Six shooting Cain. And although there's no shortage of Angel choking, threatening, or otherwise making things unpleasant for Lilah, I couldn't bring myself to include them in here. Maybe it's because the other women have all shown themselves equally capable of physical violence, but while Lilah's a kick-ass woman, most of her power is verbal and strategic, so being the object of physical threats and violence is more disturbing. Or maybe it's just that Angel's kind of a dick and doesn't deserve to get one over on Lilah?
Katherine Pierce, Nina Myers, Lilah Morgan, Admiral Helena Cain
I started out just planning to do one picspam of all the antagonizing ladies, but... Katherine kind of took over? So she gets her own. One of the things I really wanted to do with this category is to look at it as a relationship - in order to be an antagonist, you have to, well, antagonize someone. :) So I not only wanted this to be a picspam of awesome ladies, but specifically showing them with the men (and occasionally women) they were playing off of. Which, naturally, when one of the relationships you want to explore is Damon/Katherine/Stefan, IT'S GONNA GET CRAZY, YO.
I kind of felt conflicted - mainly with Lilah - in that I wanted to show both sides of the story, you know? Sometimes the antagonists have the upper hand, but eventually they always get what's coming to them, and so that's why we have Damon trying to stake Katherine, Nina in handcuffs, Six shooting Cain. And although there's no shortage of Angel choking, threatening, or otherwise making things unpleasant for Lilah, I couldn't bring myself to include them in here. Maybe it's because the other women have all shown themselves equally capable of physical violence, but while Lilah's a kick-ass woman, most of her power is verbal and strategic, so being the object of physical threats and violence is more disturbing. Or maybe it's just that Angel's kind of a dick and doesn't deserve to get one over on Lilah?
