There was this article on Comic Book Resources a few months age where the author, who is a huge feminist, gave ratings about returning and new comic book based tv shows this fall. I know the article is long, but it is just the Marvel and most DC stuff I am focusing on. This site usually favors Marvel and gives them a pass all the time, but in this you can also see how she shows favoritism over stuff with a woman in it.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/05/12/she-has-no-head-3/
So you can see how she gave Arrow a “no sauce” rating and The Flash a “mild” rating. Now everyone has different tastes, but Arrow has been a great show from the start. The story is great, the characters are awesome, it has a darker tone like the new 52, and really gets you invested in the characters and what Ollie is doing. It is everything that made Smallville good and did everything Smallville did wrong, right. She says she only got through one episode and didn’t even start with episode 1 and goes onto say the show is too complicated to leave on in the background and do something else. So she wasn’t even fully watching the show when she tried. Moving over to the Flash we got to see Barry Allen in 2 episodes in Arrow season 2 which ended with him going into a coma after getting struck by lightning, which gives him his powers. She does point out that the promo image does look lighter compared to Arrows which is very dark so that is why she is giving it a mild rating.
Moving on to Marvel she gives Agents of Shield a “Hot” rating. Again everyone has different likes, but Agents of Shield has been criticized for things such as not feeling like the movies, not enough original Marvel characters, and just not being interesting. The show is coming back for a second season, but while Arrow actually has main DC superheroes and Villains Agents of Shield has very little Marvel heroes and villains. She even says it is hard to root for “the man” of the show and the characters kind of straddled that line which the show didn’t quite know what to do about that. However she still gives the show a “Hot” rating while when talking about Arrow said the characters were too complicated and Arrow got a “no sauce” rating. Next is Agent Carter, who surprisingly stars a woman lead. Agent Carter will be replacing Agents of Shield during its mid season break. Now so far we have seen Agents Carter in Captain America:The First Avenger, the One Shot Agent Carter that came on the Iron Man 3 blu ray, and her scene in The Winter Solider as an old woman. Notice how she just happens to give this a “Fire” rating. She mentions the show has a lot going for it because it is connected to the movies, but Flash is connected to Arrow. She even say she doesn’t like period pieces, Agent Carter will be taking place in the 1940’s, but says she will learn to love it. She didn’t like Arrow and let that affect her opinion of Flash.
Finally moving on the the Marvel Netflix series at the time this article came out we knew nothing about those except they would be made. No casting, no plot, nothing, but she gives 4 Marvel Netflix shows: Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Dare Devil, and Defenders (the team up) a “Hot” rating” and Jessica Jones a “Fire” rating. Izombie also got a “Fire” rating which by the looks isn’t even going to be close to the comics,but notice how of the 2 Marvel series with woman characters she gave them both “Fire” ratings even when one we know absolutely nothing about. Again everyone has different opinions and likes, but considering the strong feminism on that site I couldn’t help but feel like this article was biased. Anyone else have any thoughts?
