Tag: anti shadowhunters

izzylcwis:

i came with the conclusion that mostly of the shadowhunters/tmi fans are just BLIND, some by their hate by cc that can’t take any comments to the show or anything positive to the the books , some because the show give scenes of their otp so basically are blind to see any comment that isn’t praising their ship, some that love cc so much that are so blind to see the positive aspects of the show. mostly of people are so blind to even form their own opinion that is really sad.

Yo, what do you think about the ShadowHunters tv show? My friend wants me to watch it but I’ve heard mixed things

malisoun:

Here we fucking go.

The biggest positive of the show, without a doubt, is its racial diversity.  The addition of so many leads of color is super admirable, and I’m glad that otherwise unknown actors of color have been given such a visible chance to shine.  Representation is massively important, and it gives us that much, racially speaking.

Then, there’s the homophobia.  Know that I’m about to spoil a major plot point in the show: if you care, stop reading right here.  The writing of Lydia Branwell/the arranged marriage arc is innately microaggressive.  It just is.  Here’s what’s up: arranged marriages to uphold family honor are not innovative, exciting prospects.  It’s a reality.  For hundreds of years, and for some of us to this day, this sort of marriage is a fact of fucking life.  This is a plot point largely meant to diverge from book canon in order to create extra tension around Alec’s character.  Alec is a character who comes out, in the books, of his own free will.  It’s his decision.  He isn’t forced into a homophobic lifestyle by circumstance.  The addition of this plot arc is regressive, painful, dull.  It’s a slap to all of those queer fans who saw themselves in Alec, and are now watching that character placed in a situation that isn’t exciting, isn’t groundbreaking.  I’ve heard the argument that this arc isn’t ‘all about Alec’s sexuality’.  In what way is it not?  How is this not linked to his sexuality, per se?  Furthermore, this means that the show introduced a new female character for the express purpose of drama at the expense of a queer character’s agency.  What a fucking waste of what could have been a cool new face to add to the cast.

Speaking of female characters.  Has anyone else notice how defanged they’ve made all our girls?  Clary is soft spoken, complacent, level-headed, agreeable.  Isabelle is instantly nice, accepting, warm, inviting.  Where is the rage, the bitterness, the stubbornness, the prickly edges of the characters that help define who they are?  The show writers and directors have polished off their sharp edges, and now they’re palatable and sweet.  Look.  I like that there isn’t girl hate and I like that we see the girls talking a lot.  I just think there was definitely opportunity to make them complex, flawed people.  (Also.  Aha.  Let’s not even get started on Maryse, the canonically supportive, not slut-shaming mother being warped into what the show’s made her.  Or the way they handle Isabelle and sex.)

Finally, on a less political note, it’s painfully cheesy.  The dialogue is forced, the acting is spotty, the directing is inconsistent.  It moves too fast and sacrifices characterization for sake of exposition.  Everything is too romo too quickly.  It’s cliche.  It’s perhaps entertaining, but it comes across as condescending with all the gratuitous sex and over simplified script.

Watch if you want.  I’m just damn disenchanted.

ashauyel:

Framing Valentine’s fascist genocidal eugenics and emotional manipulation– as well as the physical and emotional abuse of his wife– as the fault of his best friend and wife (both who were steadily abused by him) for not supporting him is really gross, to say the least

agaywithwords:

So I started watching the TV show Shadowhunters, but I was watching it in that background-noise-while-doing-something-else kind of way, and after 3 episodes I realized I had no idea who the characters were or what was going on. 

At about the time, I ran out of books on my Kindle library. 

So I downloaded the book series for commute reading. I’m up to book 5.

Granted, they aren’t great literature. I mean they are YA books and the first trilogy basically involves a girl kissing the guy she thinks is her brother, the guy she thinks of like a brother, and the guy who turns out to be her actual brother. Oh, and there’s a lot of supernatural stuff with angels and vampires and werewolves and fairies and warlocks and demons. But it’s an enjoyable enough read that I’m still at it.

Then I went and caught up on the TV show. What a difference. Now I know what’s going on, but I can’t help seeing what a truly terrible show it is. They’ve aged all the characters up so that the YA melodrama seems ridiculous. The actors are pretty enough to look at, but have the emotional acting range of unseasoned chicken. But the worst sin is that the writing is just awful. Heavy handed exposition, sassy dialogue that lacks all the wit and charm of the source material, dumbing down the politics of the magic world, completely avoiding the gore and violence and sense of peril (in the books, the characters are constantly discovering their clothes still coated in blood or walk around with visible wounds), and finding no way whatsoever to communicate the complicated internal conflicts of Clary (e.g. how she feels about her mother keeping secrets, how scared she is by Jace, the constant state of self-doubt and comparing herself to other women, how guilty and shaken she is about discovering who her father is, etc.).

It’s just a bad show. Really, really bad. The only bright spot is the character of Alec, who is played by an actor who seems to understand the internal motivations of the character and makes the awful script somehow almost work.

Anyway, big long rant about a TV show I’m probably going to stop watching and a book series I’ll probably finish in the next few days. 

It’s just sad that TV networks can create really good YA/supernatural television from arguably weak source material/inspiration (see: Teen Wolf, early seasons of The Vampire Diaries, The Originals), but fail so spectacularly with stronger materials to pull from. 

agent-wolfy:

I’ve seen a lot of posts where people complain because Alec’s bow just seem to be there one moment and just have disappeared the next. 

Well guss what, it did! 

yeah,‘our budget is too small we can’t afford decent set, more actors and a demon ever since episode 1 but it’s totally necessary to make Alec’s bows appears be special effects instead of just make him carry it’

a-little-something-bookish:

Maryse is not a horrible mother, she’s not this disinterested women who thinks her children are overgrown babies. She’s not a horrible mother who would talk down to Izzy and Alec. She loves them and would do anything to protect them, in the book she’s strict and appears cold but when she first comes into it guess what Izzy ran to give her a hug and she HUGGED IZZY BACK! She’s not cold, she’s not cold, she’s not fucking cold. Stop making her seem like a stereotypical horrible mother who hates her gay son and her daughters personality.

univcrse:

clary’s reaction to alec’s sexual orientation was not cool. at all. y’all can talk about how she’s so badass but i really think she’s just badly written and two dimensional and emotionless, but that’s another issue.

if anyone said that to me in relation to how i like girls, i would either slap them or never talk to them again. she just met alec, who has made it very clear he does not like her, and it’s blatantly obvious he isn’t comfortable with it and has not come to terms with it. how the hell can you turn around and tell that person “wow sucks you like someone of your gender but they’re straight” ?? how childish and stupid? it gave me second hand anxiety just to see alec’s reaction. there are much, much better ways to reveal a character’s homosexuality than some blandly written girl he hates telling him he’s gay because she likes his crush. like no. isabelle could have confronted him, he could have confessed it to magnus or even jace. but this was just horrible and clary just gets more and more unlikable with every episode