Why, Heather? There's plenty of opportunity to be a hardassed obsessive without being nationalistic -- I know plenty of black people, for instance, who didn't go that way. The fact that her ethnicity drove that is one of the things that bothered me.
Mal: Does.. um.. does this seem kind of tight? Kaylee: Shows off your backside.
'Shindig'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 5:14:54 pm PST #4653 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Daisy Jane - Feb 07, 2005 5:20:17 pm PST #4654 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Ah, see I think we're seeing it from two different angles. I don't think her ethnicity drove it. I think her topdogism drives her nativism not the other way around. I think if, as she may have expected given her personality type, they'd instantly made her partner at the big firm and she'd been able to go after huge cases, she be happily suing big companies' butts off and smiling for the cameras with nary a thought about the reservation.
DCJensen - Feb 07, 2005 5:33:10 pm PST #4655 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I agree Heather. I think until she orgasimed/died in the sauna, she was merely using the tribal traditions as a means to power. Evidenced by the heavy handed and capricious way she "delt" with Sharon, and friends of Sharon.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 5:43:58 pm PST #4656 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Eh. I bought it as sincere, with the only tools she had at hand. What changed was her method, and her attitude. Not her goals.
Gris - Feb 07, 2005 5:47:09 pm PST #4657 of 10001
Hey. New board.
*sniff* It's over. Must now mourn the loss of the third best show EVER.
Daisy Jane - Feb 07, 2005 5:48:55 pm PST #4658 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I think her goal has always been be #1. Plus, she joined the big law firm first, and her need to lord it over Sharon make it seem like her motivations were other than helping out the tribe.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 5:51:31 pm PST #4659 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, if law was going to be her tool, law school was going to be useful. Going to law school before using the law to protect them made perfect sense to me, without calling her nationalism into question -- it's also something I've seen (and roll my eyes at in fiction, but that's another thing) appropriating the tools of the MAN to uplift the people. But with this crazy look in the eyes. In the end, she does just that, but all subvertily. I thought that was too downplayed, in comparison.
le nubian - Feb 07, 2005 5:53:27 pm PST #4660 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Why didn't people like "Safety Canary?" I really enjoyed that episode. "Cocktail Bunny" was hard for me to watch. Yikes. I think upon additional viewings I'll enjoy it, but seeing Jaye in pain wasn't no fun for me.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 5:57:20 pm PST #4661 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Too much wrapped up too saccharinely sweetly in Safety Canary for me. I don't know from the snowy owl, so the fauna portions of the objections went right over my head. Also, I despised the casting of actors who looked like birds. It's a thing.
You might want to nuke the pain in your post, LeN, for the untouched.
Daisy Jane - Feb 07, 2005 6:03:39 pm PST #4662 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
It wasn't the going to a good law school but the joining the big law firm that I think points to her being more self centered than about helping her people.