an epiphany about a rant

Oh, Person of Interest. So I was thinking about my Detective Carter-related mini-rant about a few fans being excessively critical of her when I suddenly realized that since finding online fandom, I haven't been fannish of a show that doesn't have at least one female lead.

Battlestar Galactica had a huge ensemble cast with women in important roles, women in minor roles, women everywhere. Life had a male cop-female cop pair in the forefront. The Sarah Connor Chronicles--well, look at the name of the show. Doctor Who has a constantly changing cast that almost always has women in rotation. (Also, the fandom is huge, so I tend to not to wander around it much.) Parks and Recreation has the super-awesome Leslie Knope, who has male and female friends all over the great city of Pawnee.

Those are all the shows for which I've written fanfiction, except Person of Interest. PofI has two male leads and no female lead. Carter is definitely in a supporting/antagonist role, even though she's in the opening credits. I'm naturally inclined to like her because 1) yay, female cop! And she's awesome! and 2) ...there are no other women to like who get to be in more than one episode. (I'm still holding out hope for Zoe to come back, but so far nope.) So it HURTS MY HEART to see other fans dislike Carter, especially since they don't have any other women from the show to appreciate.

So... making my own fannish squee is my new goal. In other words, expect a post about episode 1.10 after I've had time to rewatch it.

(Other related goal: continue not to watch Supernatural.)