Started by newbeing, Nov 06, 2017, 07:34:15 PM
Quote from: Magegg on Jun 22, 2018, 04:30:40 AMShaw was a nerdy girl that became fierce when fighting the creatures in the end. And went bitter and determined to take some sort of revenge on the Engineers.Anyway, I said she was kind of a little different.
Quote from: SM on Jun 22, 2018, 04:42:00 AMWhen was the "vulnerable yet caring" part of the formula?
Quote from: Scorpio on Jun 22, 2018, 04:48:08 AMWhere did you get the idea she wanted revenge?
Quote from: SiL on Jun 22, 2018, 12:50:45 PMThat it's going to be obvious who lives has nothing to do with tropes or gender, it's just lazy writing or marketing.
Quote from: SiL on Jun 22, 2018, 12:50:45 PMHow is that any different to putting Arnie (or, more contemporary, The Rock) in literally any movie, though, honestly?
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jun 22, 2018, 07:24:14 AMI couldn't care less about the gender of the hero but it's become too formulaic. AvP, Prometheus and Covenant - the primarily female character makes it to the end. And then it's telegraphed all over the marketing which particular character that is going to be. I'd hope in future they don't make it so obvious. Increase the number of female characters so it's not so hard to pick out the 1 women out of the 4 who is receiving the most attention in marketing or in the run-up. And most importantly make all the characters - regardless of gender - interesting. Or do what they did with Alien to start with - write them unisex. And stick it through to casting, pick whoever is the best.