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I'm feeling less sick today but buzzed from meds. My thoughts are less of this episode, which was good even though it had a severe lack of Annie and Aidan, and more on Bianca's status in her various ships and the fans who support them.
No one respects The Rack.
Granted I wrote that because it sounds funny but it's true. I've watched All My Children for twenty four years now and Bianca has been on for nine of those years under Eden's portrayal and she's been shipped with various characters. Each ship has a fanbase and from the teeny weeny beginnings with Sarah to the more sizeable and crazy BAM then finally the adult relationship with Reese it seems, to me anyway, that fans of the ships always love whoever is paired with Bianca more than Bianca herself. Which always struck me as really fucking insane because, let's face it, all the women Bianca has been with are disposable if not for Bianca's interest in them. This doesn't mean I don't love Reese or even Maggie. I do love them but can they be offed easily and not really have much ramifications on the show? Hell to the yeah. Not the same for Binks.
It bugs me though because it makes me think a lot of people, particularly fanfic writers, see Bianca as a disposable Mary Sue character who is just there to make their beloved Lena/Maggie/Reese happy. I never liked BAM so I haven't read fanfic for them but back in the heyday of Lena and Bianca I've read a few doozies that portray Bianca horribly. Just as this selfish unforgiving person because she didn't instantly trust Lena after learning about her con artist ways and then after the rape and it always bothered me.
Currently there's a lot of annoyance with Bianca for her insecurity and I'll admit, yeah, I find it irritating to watch as it develops and is reinforced over and over because as the viewer we can see it has no basis since Reese loves her like burning. But for Bianca, all the bullshit and crappy treatments of betrayals and lies and cheating she's had to deal with in every single romance she's had, it totally comes from an understandable place.
I'm not sure this had a point. lol. I just felt the need to vent slightly. The reality is without Bianca none of these ships would exist and she is the lesbian of all lesbians on daytime soaps and please, even if you don't love her, at least respect her and don't write her all fucked up wrong in your fanfic and bitch about her constantly in the forums. If Bianca ever leaves the show permanently all your femslash for AMC will be regulated to subtext involving Kendall and Greenlee who might or might not be perishing soon.
Kenlee, nooooo! I miss you. Know what else I miss? Annie and Aidan! I've determined what is their true love Theme Song and it is awesome. Someone make me a music video for them using it. Please? I'll write you porn. lol. Seriously. I will. Porn doesn't bother me in my middle age.
Anyway. Here's the clip for today. For some reason the last scene with Zach being cool and telling Erica to look at how much Bianca and Reese are in love isn't included in this little montage. I like that scene if only for Erica's narrowed all seeing gaze at the end. She rocks so much.
And I decided to post the clip with Zach and Erica. She shows up being her bad ass self at 7:39. This also has a clip of my soap boyfriend JR drunken macking on Amanda who... err, I don't know if people who read my ramblings are spoiler whores like me so I won't say it I guess.
But I will say her storyline coming up that doesn't deal with her being hired by David to take JR down by making him alcoholic again? I find lame. I mean, it will bring drama and it could create really cool future storylines but I'm sick of that sort of confusion. It's very Maury Povich.
No one respects The Rack.
Granted I wrote that because it sounds funny but it's true. I've watched All My Children for twenty four years now and Bianca has been on for nine of those years under Eden's portrayal and she's been shipped with various characters. Each ship has a fanbase and from the teeny weeny beginnings with Sarah to the more sizeable and crazy BAM then finally the adult relationship with Reese it seems, to me anyway, that fans of the ships always love whoever is paired with Bianca more than Bianca herself. Which always struck me as really fucking insane because, let's face it, all the women Bianca has been with are disposable if not for Bianca's interest in them. This doesn't mean I don't love Reese or even Maggie. I do love them but can they be offed easily and not really have much ramifications on the show? Hell to the yeah. Not the same for Binks.
It bugs me though because it makes me think a lot of people, particularly fanfic writers, see Bianca as a disposable Mary Sue character who is just there to make their beloved Lena/Maggie/Reese happy. I never liked BAM so I haven't read fanfic for them but back in the heyday of Lena and Bianca I've read a few doozies that portray Bianca horribly. Just as this selfish unforgiving person because she didn't instantly trust Lena after learning about her con artist ways and then after the rape and it always bothered me.
Currently there's a lot of annoyance with Bianca for her insecurity and I'll admit, yeah, I find it irritating to watch as it develops and is reinforced over and over because as the viewer we can see it has no basis since Reese loves her like burning. But for Bianca, all the bullshit and crappy treatments of betrayals and lies and cheating she's had to deal with in every single romance she's had, it totally comes from an understandable place.
I'm not sure this had a point. lol. I just felt the need to vent slightly. The reality is without Bianca none of these ships would exist and she is the lesbian of all lesbians on daytime soaps and please, even if you don't love her, at least respect her and don't write her all fucked up wrong in your fanfic and bitch about her constantly in the forums. If Bianca ever leaves the show permanently all your femslash for AMC will be regulated to subtext involving Kendall and Greenlee who might or might not be perishing soon.
Kenlee, nooooo! I miss you. Know what else I miss? Annie and Aidan! I've determined what is their true love Theme Song and it is awesome. Someone make me a music video for them using it. Please? I'll write you porn. lol. Seriously. I will. Porn doesn't bother me in my middle age.
Anyway. Here's the clip for today. For some reason the last scene with Zach being cool and telling Erica to look at how much Bianca and Reese are in love isn't included in this little montage. I like that scene if only for Erica's narrowed all seeing gaze at the end. She rocks so much.
And I decided to post the clip with Zach and Erica. She shows up being her bad ass self at 7:39. This also has a clip of my soap boyfriend JR drunken macking on Amanda who... err, I don't know if people who read my ramblings are spoiler whores like me so I won't say it I guess.
But I will say her storyline coming up that doesn't deal with her being hired by David to take JR down by making him alcoholic again? I find lame. I mean, it will bring drama and it could create really cool future storylines but I'm sick of that sort of confusion. It's very Maury Povich.
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