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Re: Am I supposed to like Electra?

[(Anonymous)]

No, bit I think this person is just saying that there's disliking a ship or character, and there's Tumblr wank which calls anyone who doesn't dislike that ship or character an asshole. And vice versa.

Thankfully people here generally have been known to agree to disagree.

Re: Am I supposed to like Electra?

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, okay. Thankfully I don't follow anyone who's into shipping wars or character hate (got enough of that in the Force Awakens fandom! lol), so I haven't seen that side of the daredevil fandom yet.

Re: Am I supposed to like Electra?

[(Anonymous)]

As the poster earlier says, there's actually relatively little of it.

Emotions are high right now because we're all wallowing in post-season angst, but generally we're a very chill bunch.

Re: Am I supposed to like Electra?

[(Anonymous)]

Just chipping in--I'm not even done with Season Two, and I absolutely hate Elektra because *she's not a character*. Absolutely every scene I've seen her in, she's written to be as bad for Matt as possible, and that's about it. She doesn't have any dimensionality, you're given no reason to feel sympathy for her, she's just written as the clear WRONG CHOICE, MATT.

And that's not a real person, that's a cardboard cutout. Maybe that's on the writers, maybe a better actress could have delivered more believable subtext or something, but right now, the only thing Elektra does right is do homage to Matt's Catholic heritage by being the perfect example of a Vice from a morality play. Frankly, she's a disappointment.

And I feel a lot of sympathy for the person who started this thread.

[Note: I don't really "ship" Matt with anyone yet. The show hasn't really sold me on any specific pairing, except for friendship with Foggy, so I didn't come into the season with an anti-Elektra bias. If I ever read the comics, I may still like her--yeah, she makes stupid choices, from what I've heard, but Karen apparently does even worse.]

Re: Am I supposed to like Electra?

[(Anonymous)]

Keep watching! You miiight change your mind about Elektra. She gets more character development later on. It was the one shining light in the whole mess that was the rest of that storyline for me.

And no, Karen doesn't do anything "whiny" or "stupid", at least not any more than anyone else. But people have been very good at inventing interesting reasons to think so. :/

Re: Am I supposed to like Electra?

[(Anonymous)]

NA

This, I was side-eying Elektra up until the last couple of episodes. They definitely give her more depth, and on re-watch, I appreciated her and her story much more.

Re: Am I supposed to like Electra?

[(Anonymous)]

This is off topic, but what does "NA" mean? I'm used to AYRT, RTYI, et cetera, but I think I've not seen "NA"?

Re: Am I supposed to like Electra?

[(Anonymous)]

"new anon" I assume.

Re: Am I supposed to like Electra?

[(Anonymous)]

'New Anon', it means it's someone who's making their first contribution to the thread.

Re: Am I supposed to like Electra?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh ok. Thank you ! I thought maybe "Not anon" but that made no sense. ☺