Joan of Arcadia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, Tru, Jaye Tyler from Wonderfalls -- there are lots of good heroines being invented these days, heroines who are part savior. Bogart used to play those roles: the one who knew what was going on, who could sometimes re-arrange necessity a little bit. When people feel powerless, the temptation of fiction-makers is to produce superheroes: folks for whom it always turns out right, by force of fist. Buffy is in that tradition a bit, except she has the good sense to save violence for dead things that are pretending to be alive. But the other heroines know that the structures of reality have to be nudged, teased, cajoled into shifting just a little. This is pretty healthy stuff. Compare Rockford and Magnum PI.
Posted by shea0017 at September 28, 2004 2:03 PM